Everything Will Be Fine
Part of my 2019 goals (haven’t officially been written down) is to do more for myself! I rarely put myself first and I know I need to, to make myself a better mother and a better wife. Well the first opportunity was the PLAYOFF GAME!!! We beat the Kansas City Chiefs and that guaranteed our spot in the playoffs and beating the Cardinals (Q got a sack and recovered a fumble!!!) was just icing on the cake. I booked a plane ticket to Dallas, bought my game ticket and guess what I left the kids at home, ok not all of them Yasi came but he can just be hooked on me in a carrier so it is like we are one and doesn’t count oh and he can’t talk yet. I did not ask my fellow Seahawks wives/girlfriends if they were shocked I actually came since my kids usually go wherever I go but they probably were.
Night of me leaving I think I got zero sleep from just anxiety and nervous about leaving the girls. But let me tell you my alarm goes off during the week at 7am I can’t get up my alarm goes off at 4am for a flight I am up and ready to go I am not sure why that is. My friend Maegan and I booked our flight so it was at the same time and the seats right next to each other! To say it was an interesting flight is an understatement. Yasi was the BEST flyer and just slept most of the 3 hour flight. Maegan was by the window and I was in the middle and then another passenger was next to us………… As soon as we took off I mean AS SOON no exaggeration she said to us excuse me I am sorry I am gonna have to throw up. Maegan and I just looked at each other and thought this cannot be fucking happening. Here we are trying to be cute go see our men play girls trip paid for business class seats and then BAM this woman is throwing up. She did not stop throwing up until we pretty much landed. It was honestly the most horrific thing I have ever had to be around (first world problems) there was no other seats to move to, and I think what made us the most angry (there are several things) was the stewardess checked on her ONCE! They said to her do you want to throw up in the bathroom because it was ok if she used the first class bathroom which the lady responded “no that will only make it worse” (WTF?!?!?) and brought her bags to throw up in. So we had to listen and smell the throw up the entire three hours!!!!!!!!! Please has anyone else ever had to experience this?!?!?? Because the urge to throw up ourselves was gonna happen but me and Maegan literally held it in. It was bad it was so bad. A part of me of course feels bad because as much as we hate the sound and smell this lady probably hates that she is throwing up so much right??? That is exactly what I was thinking….. Whelp that was up until in end of the flight where she tells me and shows me she is wearing a medical bracelet and that she had a traumatic brain injury and surgery before (again still feeling bad but still grossed out at the same time, just wait for it..). I said to her oh well can’t your doctor prescribe you something to knock you out on the plane… WAIT FOR IT WAIT FOR IT she then says “I AM NOT SUPPOSE TO BE FLYING” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is when all sympathy went out the window me and Maegan just look at each other stunned shocked mad angry is this really our life right now? THEN SHE SAYS “I was not even suppose to be on this flight!!!! I gave up my first class seat for another flight so I could get on this one to make it to the game on time!!!!! Yep this is real life…. I mean you really cannot help but laugh I was thankful it was not a bug she had that it was just literally motion sickness but it was still absolutely disgusting. I am definitely super unhappy with AMERICAN AIRLINES they should be ashamed with themselves for not trying to help the lady more but not even to bother asking us if we are ok or something else they could do. Our theme of the entire trip was “everything will be fine” and you know what we made it to Dallas in one piece so it was fine!
We ended up having a really great Uber driver who turns out owned a car service and ended up driving us to the hotel, to and from the game, and to the airport for our flight back home. The hotel we stayed at was the same as the team Omni Dallas Hotel, it was a beautiful hotel and the room was great. I was happy because Q got to spend time with me and Yasi soon as we got there. I figured since we were in Texas we should find a bbq place to eat! We asked the concierge to recommend a couple places the one we decided to go to was Lockhart Smokehouse it was good!! I think my favorite was the S’mores bread pudding (and I don’t even like bread pudding). After we ate lunch we walked around Bishop Arts District where the restaurant was located and it just had so many cute shops, all the murals on the walls, and lights hanging everywhere was so perfect. Again it is something me and Q love to do together is find different local places to eat and to just explore a city. After that the best part is we went back to the hotel and slept! Yasi had fallen asleep in the Uber once we got in the room we all just fell asleep. And it was so great to just take a much needed uninterrupted nap. Yasi and I slept for probably like 4 hours and it felt AMAZING! I really just loved being able to sleep and order room service and just relaxing (trust me even if I only have one kid with me it is still relaxing).
There is just some people you meet and you connect and wonder how did I not know them before this?? That is Chas and Maegan. The NFL I feel like can make you go crazy seriously (gonna write about this in a different blog post some time) make you feel like you are suppose to be someone you are not that being a “WAG” is only a pretty face at that a VERY pretty face. But these two make me just feel that all the crazy things I might be thinking and go over to the dark side bring me back to reality and just honestly make me laugh and not go crazy (in a bad way). BUT anywaysssss long story short Chas is super amazing and got someone from back home where she is from to make us some NFL wife jackets and tshirts! They came out SUPER amazing and we got so many compliments on them. Maegan and me had bought tickets for the game together so we could sit together. We both share the same anxiety for being early to important things so we don’t miss it or are late (like a flight or being late to the game so we left like 3 hours early). Not gonna lie the tickets were expensive but they were worth every cent (especially since for me I had never traveled for a game let alone a playoff game and a playoff game where my husband actually is playing! So again worth every cent). They ended up being club level seats which we had no idea but that explains the price! They were seriously the perfect seats because where we entered the stadium was exactly where our seats ended up being. We got there right before 5 and that was when the doors open! We got to see the guys warm up and so it was super nice since we were on the visitors side and so close to the field Q was able to see us and able to come over to us and say hi and see Yasi. Q will never outright say OMG I AM SO EXCITED YOU ARE HERE but I know my husband and a little smile he does that pretty much equals the same thing, of course he would have loved to have the girls there but I think we have a few years before that can happen (mainly the twins). The game did not end the way we wanted but it was such a good game to see and so just honored to be there and cheer on our guys! And you know what I feel like with this group of guys all they can go from here is up! The whole team is a really young group of guys so they can just build and get even better for next year. Luckily we did not receive any heckling or harassment after the game cause I think that was my biggest concern being in a stadium that is not your own and you lose and people get drunk because we have had some friends who have not had the best experience at other stadiums. And of course getting to see my hubba after the game was the best part!
Things I learned about myself on this trip: I need to do this more!!! I mean the time change and back to mom mode was a bitch buttttt the trip itself was worth it all. And as a mom it felt ok to know I could step away from my kids and not feel like a bad mom, the babysitter we had did so much stuff with the girls that they had such a good time and my house was still clean (trust me I have had previous babysitters who leave me with a mess which makes going out not enjoyable). I seriously love the girls on the team and it just something that brings you closer getting to see each other outside our normal environment. On our flight back a majority of us were on the same flight back home, and I don’t know it makes me sad because it could be the last time we are all together and yet it feels like the season just started. Everything will be fine!
I feel like there are just some people you click with to travel, Q I love to travel with especially with our kids he makes it easy we just feed off each other and figure out what the other needs without even saying (except for that one time traveling to the east coast one of our kids was probably driving me crazy and I told him to go fuck himself, it was in the moment and I took it back! But clearly he was the only one I could take it out on). Maegan was so much fun to travel with and we are both moms and leaving our kids was hard so it made it better just having each other to fly with, navigate the stadium with, and sit at the game with! Dallas we will be back again!
Any crazy travel experiences you have? Favorite stadium to visit? How did you deal with leaving kids behind?
