Cavs vs. Hornets

 We decided as a family at the beginning of the year that we wanted to budget more money towards experiences. We all felt that everyone was at the age where having "things" was much less important to us all than collecting memories together, so money was shifted accordingly, and a family decision was made to plan at least one family activity a month. No one is required to come to any activity he/she doesn't want to. We all know by now that one rotten attitude can ruin everyone's time and no one wants that, so participation is voluntary. 

Bobby has been wanting to go the Cleveland Cavaliers play for a long time in each of the cities we have lived (that offered the opportunity to see them play). Unfortunately, until now, we never made room in the budget or cleared out time to go. When Bobby saw that the Cavs were playing here in Charlotte in February and we hadn't yet decided what activity we wanted to plan for the month, Bobby suggested going to the game. So, on Friday, February 4th, we found ourselves sitting in the nosebleed section of Spectrum Center in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina.

I haven't been to a professional sporting event since we left Ohio in 2014, so I agreed to go along (as did Andy, Josh, Sarah, and Elizabeth). Basketball isn't really our favorite sport, but we thought it would be fun to see a Cleveland sports team in our (for now) hometown here in Charlotte. And it was. We all had a great time. Josh ended up going to the game with some college buddies instead of coming with us. He had gotten ahold of some free tickets that his college was giving away, so we were down a man in our family, but that was okay. I knew Josh was having a good time with his people and the five of us were having a good time together which is all that mattered. 

The Cavs ended up winning in the last second of the game which was really fun. It was also cool to see how many Cavs fans there were at the stadium. One of the nice things about a lot of the places we have lived is that they are considered transplant town/cities. This tends to there being a more eclectic fan base in which you know that there will always be fellow supporters of any team no matter who is playing verse the hometown team. 

In the end, we were all really glad we went and look forward to going again the next time the Cavs roll into town.