Meet the Pirates

We live in a college town and while it's fun to go to games and lots of events on and around ECU's campus, it's not so enjoyable when it's move-in day or even game day. The traffic is insane and unless there's a life threatening emergency we don't leave the house on those days. :)

This past Saturday we went out to Dowdy Ficklen Stadium to Meet the Pirates. It's a chance to meet the players and coaches of this season's football team. We had never been to this event and Josh is at a good age to really enjoy it.  

There were cheerleaders with pirate tattoos!

He was crushing so hard he wouldn't smile.

Petey the Pirate tattoo

 There were bouncy houses and slides,

Petey the Pirate,

 and even Pirate Steve. He's a real life pirate who comes out of the tunnel just before the players at all of the games. He's pretty cool. Josh met him at Pirate Fest this past summer and was really impressed!

This is the "tunnel" the football team runs out of at the games. Josh things it's "cool awesome" and always asks to go in it when we go to a game. The players have smoke machines and it looks really creepy and cool. Josh was happy to run through over and over.

The guys took turns tackling each other. First Josh tackled Daddy:

Then Daddy tackled Josh:

  Josh really enjoyed it and it was neat to be on the field instead of up in the stands for once. :) We didn't stand in the long lines to get any autographs but Josh doesn't understand all of that anyway so it was fine. We're excited for football season to start. We enjoy the cooler weather and attending a few games a season. GO PIRATES!