Blue is the color!
So, some things about yesterday in vaguely chronological order:
- Somehow i missed both poptastiche and blueforever10 because I was a derp and didn't check my LJ before going to Manhattan for brunch with staticxfever and then Legends was filled with people. Sorry guys! I'd still love to meet you outside of watching a match - let me know!
- Still, brunch on the Lower East Side, Jim Hanley's Universe, talking Nerdist, and the nature of the spread of modern culture (and the possibility for creative people to make a living without being enormously famous) with Jess is a delight, as it always is. <3
- Legends was in-freaking-sane. LOVED IT! So much singing and partying and general Good Times. Much love to the New York Blues/Chelsea in America for making it fantastic and for the Legends crew for putting up with our good natured madness.
- Yankee Stadium really is beautiful, and the staff was for the most part pretty excellent. (Loved the poor guy at the merchandise table wondering why all these people want scarves in 80 degree Farenheit weather!) They probably could have used more and more efficient people working the food booths, but that's my only complaint.
- No wait, I have another complaint: that no one told me you can't bring laptops into Yankee Stadium. There are folks running locker rentals outside, thankfully, but I wish I had known in advance.
- I have a scarf now! It's way thicker than I thought it'd be (at least four layers thick!) and so soft and lovely.
- Hilarious moment: while on line to see and have a picture with the trophies (OH MY GOD), the staff reminds us: no touching the trophies, no kissing the trophies! "Can we drink from them?" "No." "Can we make love to them?" "Only in your dreams." Bahahhahahaha yessssssssss.
- Taking pictures of sports with a point and shoot is nearly impossible, so few to no pictures from me. :( I do have a shot of the trophies, me looking like a derp holding up my scarf, and a blurry shot of the banners people put up, if people are interested in those for some reason.
- I was on the second level - it seems like the more hardcore/passionate/singing-their-lungs-out fans were on the first level closer to the pitch, but some song did indeed travel upwards, which was fun.
- UGH ALL MY FEELINGS ABOUT THE PLAYERS I SAW. The crowd roaring when Cech was the first player to come on for warmups, and again when he was subbed off! Super Frank! JT! (And the crowd going ballistic with joy when JT got the armband, oh my heart.) Sam Hutchinson - what a joy to know he's playing! Romelu Lukaku, who really is that massive and that hard working (with some bad luck)! Lucas Piazon, who not only scored Chelsea's goal absolutely beautifully, but really is that adorable in real life!
- A special OH MY GOD about Marko Marin - who really is that cute and that quick and that tenacious. I really think that the first Chelsea named kit I buy will be his. :D (Also for the delicious coincidence that he's wearing #21 for Chelsea, ahaha.)
- A second special OH MY GOD about Branislav Ivanovic - OH MY GOD I GOT TO SEE HIM WEAR THE ARMBAND IN REAL LIFE ALL OF MY FEEEEEEEEEEEEELIIIIIIIIIIIINGS. And his ass really is that awesome in real life, even as far up as I was. O.O
- The game itself was, well, not terribly exciting, a classic preseason exhibition draw. But it was worth it - all worth it - for the experience, to be honest.
- NY Police is great at crowd control out on the street, but the subway after was madness. Protip for tourists: fill your Metrocards to include the trip home BEFORE the match! Still was pretty fun to spontaneously start singing "Blue is the Colo(u)r" while waiting to get through the turnstiles, though.
Have a picture taken by an offiical Chelsea photographer with the trophies OH MY GOD THE TROPHIES SO SHINY AND THEY'RE OURS AND I SAW THEM IN REAL LIFE UGH MY FEELINGS.
