Musings at Altitude

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I’m sitting in our home theater watching the Super Bowl with my 14 year old sitting next to me on the couch.  Both of us are on our laptops.  I’m obviously blogging, and she’s probably not so obviously on the Avalanche ticket web site trying to see what seats are still available for the Detroit Red Wings game on March 4th.  We both obviously have our priorities!

Earlier today, she asked me where the Super Bowl was being played, assuming it would be either in Pittsburgh or Phoenix.  When I mentioned Tampa, she said, “Florida doesn’t even have any football teams.”  I quickly reminded her that they indeed had three, “Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville.”  She then said, “Jacksonville is in Florida?”  I said, “of course”.  She then said, “I’m not good at geography; I didn’t even know that St Louis was in Illinois.”  I chuckled and told her that St Louis was actually in Missouri, confirming her mental deficiency in geography, not wanting to go into any details about East St Louis which is indeed across the state from St Louis and in Illinois.

As we watch the Super Bowl, I’m enjoying the banter back and forth between us.  She’s the only person I’ve ever met that finds such great joy in browsing the seating charts for the Avalanche home games.  Of course, she’s probably the only 14 year old that goes to the web first thing in the morning to check the Avalanche news before doing anything else of meaning.

I must admit though, I’m still reveling in the “you’re the best Dad ever” that I received yesterday because of the seats I got the two of us for the Avalanche game against the Ducks.  Here’s a picture to show you how close we were to the visiting team:

We had seats right behind the Ducks bench, on the glass.  Better yet, we had the two seats closest to the tunnel against the glass so my 14 year old was only a few feet away from the Ducks players.  As they exited the tunnel to head out onto the ice, she would put her arm out into the tunnel and several of the Ducks players would high five her as they went by.  At the end of the game, 11 of the Ducks players gave her a high five, thus confirming my status as “best Dad ever”!

I’m not sure I’ll be able to top this one for a while.  But I’m fixin’ to buy tickets to the Avs versus Canucks game on April 11th for her and 3 of her closest friends.  Since that will be an early birthday present and party for her, I’m sure I’ll add to my legendary Dad status by the time her birthday rolls around!