So I bought the tickets in November of 2011. Finally I was going to get to see Kenney Chesney & Tim McGraw (The last time I tried to get tickets to Tim McGraw I screwed up royally and got the upgrade without getting any tickets-long story-unhappy ending). I bought a ticket for mom as well as a Christmas/birthday present (since by the time we were going to go it would be close to her birthday).
We took off in mom's car earlyish and headed to Dallas to Cowboys Stadium. I wanted to make sure we were going to get there in time to eat and relax a bit before the concert. The drive was about 3 hours. We were pretty hungry by the time we got there. We decided to stop at Pappadeaux because it was close to the stadium and we now were early so we needed to kill some time. I thought I had been to a Pappadeaux before but it didn't look or seem familiar. It is Cajun style seafood. And oh my it was sooo good. We started off with a sampler appetizer platter. It had gator, calamari, lobster crawfish fondue. After eating that we were already full but we had ordered one entree to split-Red fish Pontchartrain with dirty rice. I wasn't sure if I would like dirty rice so I had also ordered red beans and rice. I am not a big fish eater but oh my the fish was so delicious and the dirty rice was good too. I was actually not impressed with the red beans and rice and had little room left for them anyway. I did not want to waste the fish so I ate as much as I could. As we were leaving we saw a bird taking a bath in one of the several waterfalls surrounding the restaurant.Next up: Cowboys Stadium.
This was my first time at the new stadium and boy is it pretty. We were early enough that parking wasn't really bad and we parked near an exit that was a little further out (we needed to walk off lunch). There were a lot of people tailgating. I am not sure of the rules of tailgating because I have never really been a part of any tailgating party before so we just kind of walked past all the people with their tents and checked things out. I thought there would be more sponsorship stuff going on outside the stadium before hand since we weren't allowed in until 3:00.
We did get our picture taken in front of the Kenney Chesney Sponsor bus. We checked out his line of sunglasses too and had our picture taken with his cardboard cutout. There was also Tim's sponsor Penzoil who had a green screen that we had our picture taken in front of. Later on they would match me up with Tim in front of a Jeep :) That was pretty much it for sponsors. We waited in the shade near "our" gate until we realized no one else was hanging out there and a line was forming at a nearby gate. Come to find out that during special events you are supposed to disregard the gate number on your ticket. So we went to stand in the correct line in the sun. We ended up behind these two cute guys (unfortunately married to two cute women) who were hilarious and in front of another daughter who had bought tickets for her and her mom to go to the concert. When we were heading in we ended up helping the guys and their wives get pictures of them in front of the stadium and vice versa. We went inside and it was amazing. The stadium was huge and there is a ceiling that they can open up. It was so cool. I bought mom and I glow in the dark leis and we walked around to check everything out. We stopped in at a souvenir store and I bought us some t-shirts. The stores were crowded and people were crazy. Before we sat down we grabbed a couple of regular sized bottles of water for $5 each-someone is making a killing!
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