Addison's LSU Football Debut - Post 1: The Tailgating Experience

Since Addison was born Erik has wanted to bring her to Tiger Stadium.  I successfully held him off until this season.  Last Saturday for the first home game we decided to take Addison out to campus.  We would tailgate a little while and just see how she was doing and "maybe" take her into a little bit of the game.  So we all dressed up in our Tiger gear, waited until she had a nice long nap and headed out.  She was so excited to see so many people wearing purple and gold. She kept saying "LSU mama, LSU!!".


Erik wanted to make sure to keep her close so he came up with a makeshift "leash":

It was still pretty warm so we hung out in the shade as much as we could.  Addison relaxing after the long walk to the tailgate site:

 Here's me and my girl (no comments on my white legs people!).

Mrs. Kate took her to see the big inflatable tiger.  She though that was the neatest thing ever!

Then we were off to the PMAC to see the Golden Band from Tiger Land.  This is what Addison saw:

Wow!  Are you watching this dad?

She was very impressed!

Then it was time to head towards the stadium.  Erik and I have season tickets - but only for 2 seats.  LSU's unofficial policy states that "if you have a butt, you have to have a ticket", so Addison had to have her very own even though she was going to sit in our laps.  I did not want to pay full price for a ticket considering I knew we weren't going to stay for very long.  We held up one finger and were approached right away.  A girl was looking to sell 3 tickets.  When we told her it was Addison's very first game and we probably wouldn't stay very long, she let us have the ticket for free!!  Thank you sweet ticket girl!!

Tune in next time for the football game experience and find out how long we actually stayed!