Gameday Madness

Saturday Michigan Stadium held its first ever night game. It was against Notre Dame—a classic rivalry...

Door decal

I guess you should know some background. We live close enough to Michigan Stadium that people pay us to park in our yard for football games. It depends how big the game is on how much we charge... and how far ahead of game time we begin. We can tell the latter by when our street is full so there is no more free parking around. Normally, for a 3:00 game... it is about noon... for Saturday's 8:00 game... also noon... yes. Eight hours ahead of the game...

You see, South Bend is close enough for an easy drive... and those nutty fighting Irish like to come shake it up... even if they DON'T have tickets... A lot of people come just for the party.

So normally we charge $15 a car to park... we drop to $10 for minor games... For this one we increased to $20...

Hubby had 4 regulars call to save them spots... and we do that for our regulars—that is one of the perks of going to the same house each week.

What it meant was we knew we'd fill, but not until closer to game time, so we had room for some tail-gaters in our yard... quite the spread they had, too... (there was even a blue one)--they were great—offered food and beer to the hubby who was working it... told Joel how cute he was...

And we filled... and then some... it was actually a great atmosphere... and a good game except it should not have been nearly as close as it was...

So this was a very good thing for us. We made enough money for the tires that need replacing AND an oil change... those things that come up and aren't factored into the monthly budget... definitely a good thing.

This was our yard at capacity--12 cars

I still managed to get some editing done, but not at the pace I would have liked... I'm in a mad rush, though... Here I go!