Vanderbilt Basketball

We took the boys to a Vanderbilt basketball game on Saturday night.  We went to a football game a year ago but this was our first time going to a Vandy basketball game.

Again, I bought tickets on Stubhub.  The tickets have a face value of $29 each, but I bought them for $4 each plus service fees/shipping ($33 total).  And the seats ended up being perfect.  They were in the upper section, but the arena is small so no seats are really that bad.  And we were on the end of a row and right about the entrance to the section so no one was sitting in front of us.

I had gotten Vanderbilt short sleeve shirts from Old Navy on clearance awhile ago and luckily remembered we had them (and they still fit - the kids didn't wear them much this summer because black is not great when it's 90F outside!).  I put a long sleeve underneath and you get these matching cuties!!!

Parking was free in a lot only a couple of blocks away and it was an easy (but cold) walk to the arena.

The majority of the seats are benches (which was fine with us - the boys actually never wanted to sit in our laps then!).

Before the game started, the boys had a blast crawling all over the benches.  There were only a few people around us (I was surprised by how empty the entire place was).  Carter was still doing some Conductor Jack thumbs-up :)

We saw Hannah and Dowden with their dad (Chip) sitting in the second row (you can see Hannah with the red hair and white bow in the middle of this picture and Dowden is in front of her in the yellow shirt).  Chip played baseball at Vandy and his dad played both basketball and baseball so they get great free season tickets to lots of sports.

We got some popcorn for us all to share but someone was a bit possessive!

Our view ...

The boys had fun dancing ...

We all had a good time!

I wasn't kidding when I said it was empty.  This is the sideline with the majority of the second half left ...

This is the student area!

The lack of a crowd made it easier for us with the boys so I'm not complaining!  Yesterday Carter told me, "Thank you so much for taking me to the basketball game.  It was so much fun."  I'm so glad we take these guys with us to all these things instead of leaving them home with a babysitter!