Inappropriate picture

As mentioned below, the lacrosse games I went to on Saturday drew 52,000.

Naturally, I all I have is a picture of thousands of empty seats. It was taken between games of the doubleheader. During the games, most of the lower two bowls were filled, as were the lower rows of the upper decks along the sidelines. I was 25 rows up in the upper deck, but I like to sit high at sports events. Since it was a 70,000-seat NFL stadium, I was waaay up there, but the bonus was a nice breeze on a hot and humid day.

I discovered in Portland that my digital camera seems to be on its last legs, so I didn't bother to bring it to the game. But my phone does an OK job of taking pictures, and it's really much more convenient. I just need to take more appropriate shots.

Not pictured is the young girl who was sitting directly in front of me. If you've never been to a lacrosse game, it's common for youngsters to bring sticks to games and play catch in the parking lot. Why they bring them into the stadium, I've never figured out. Anyhow, the girl had a stick and decided to wave it around whenever the teams she was rooting for (Johns Hopkins in the first game and Cornell in the second game) did something good. (And for about 2 quarters of the Cornell game, she wasn't doing too much waving, sadly.)

She usually would just hold the stick straight up in the air and twirl it, which was fine. But she'd also swing it forward and backward, leaving me anticipating a bloody nose for much of the afternoon. But she never did whack me, so I guess I should point out to her youth coach that she appears to have decent stickhandling skills.