hardest ticket in sports

We realized a few years ago that we had a connection to the hardest ticket to get in sports.....Duke vs UNC at Cameron Indoor!! Patrick is friends with a coworker whose dad is the AD at Duke and this year we finally asked if we could get the hook up to celebrate my SIL Kelley's 40th birthday.....and they said SURE!!!!!!!! We have been soooooo excited, and the weekend did not disappoint! 

Kevin and Patrick (twinsies) in the hotel on game day getting ready to go check out Duke's campus! 

So you would NEVER guess from the next two pictures that Duke students (who are paying an unbelievably high tuition rate) are living in squalor........

THIS is Kville......otherwise known as students home away from home for 9 weeks. They camp out for 9 weeks (day and night) in order to get tickets for ONE three hour basketball game against their biggest rivalry....CRAZY.....but we love the loyalty to their team! 

We wanted to check out the basketball arena.....and to our SHOCK, they let us waltz right onto the court!!!! It was AWESOME! 

Patrick practiced shooting a few baskets.....

We hung out on the Duke bench.....

check out that door way architecture.......this arena was unbelievably gorgeous... (even the bathrooms were brass and marble!) from the outside you can't even tell it is an arena! 

meeting Rece, one of the gameday crew

getting our own moment in the spotlight

dinner before we head to the game

WE ARE HERE.....AND WE ARE EXCITED!!!!

WE ACTUALLY GOT TICKETS....... SO PUMPED!

So these students have EARNED their name Cameron Crazies sleeping out for the entire semester to be here.....and they delivered quite a performance. They sang and danced and cheered and did arm motions in unison for the entire game!!! They are on a set of 8 row bleachers but they stand on EVERY row (even on the row where your feet go when you sit) to make 16 rows. They are so tight in there they have to stand sideways to all fit.....and the costumes and the body paint.....it makes you want to go back to college......SO FUN! 

we sat right behind the band.........and look closely......those trademark blue and white striped shirts aren't shirts at all.............IT's BODY PAINT.....they might have careers at Sports Illustrated one day :)

Our seats were so so great (although every seat in the house is fantastic being that it is so small!)

look who was at the game........Tony Romo......someone looked like a stalker in the background :)

We're on the court! AGAIN!!!!!!

a video of the Cameron Crazies in action

This was a trip of a lifetime......SO SO GREAT.....and the fun was only half over!