Basketball Tickets for Anniversary Celebration?

If you are married to a basketball fan, like I am, why not work some basketball into your next anniversary celebration and watch him glow?

We have an anniversary coming up soon and had talked about taking a month to travel a bit and stop along the way to see a couple of grandkids we haven't seen in a long time. Just for fun, I decided to surprise my hubby and work a few basketball games in along the way to make the long drive a bit more platable.

We live in Eugene, OR so I thought we'd start out with a stop in Portland on December 7th, our first night on the road to see the Portland Trailblazers take on the Phoenix Suns at the Rose Garden. (Incidentally, the first grandchild we plan to visit lives in Phoenix, so we may be able to crow about a win for the Trailblazers when we get to her house--or not.) The game starts at 7 p.m. so we can be back on the road early the next morning.

Three days later, on December 10th, we should arrive in Phoenix and, since our granddaughter and her husband are Sun fans, we'll join them for the Suns' return game against the Trailblazers at the U.S. Airways Center at 7 p.m. Who knows who will be crowing over a win during the two days we plan to stay with them? If it is us, I promise not to be too hard on them.

Our next stop will be in San Antonio, one of my most favorite cities in the whole U.S. My granddaughter who lives in San Antonio will be attending the game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Phoenix Suns with my husband while I shepherd her children through the Alamo and take a tour of the Riverwalk. I really love that place--the riverwalk, I mean. That game will be at the AT&T Center in San Antonio at 7:30 p.m. December 20th. The granddaughter we left back in Phoenix will, I am sure, be rooting for her team, while the one in San Antonio will be rooting just as hard for hers.

Finally, we will head for New Orleans, a city we both enjoy, to spend a few days before attending a final game between the New Orlean Hornets and my husband's favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers. It won't be until December 29th at the New Orleans Arena at 7 p.m. so we'll have plenty of time to hang around town and look for trinkets to buy for the smaller grandkids back home.

All-in-all, it's a pretty ambitious schedule for two old stick-in-the-mud homebodies like us, but, as we like to say, "We need some kind of reward for managing to stick it out for 60 years, and this trip is it." Wish us luck.

And, just in case you live near any of these games and want to join us, we'll be the frazzled looking elderly couple carrying folding chairs, just in case we need to rest while we are waiting in line to enter the game. My husband will be wearing a moth-eaten Lakers' hat, and I, a UofO Duck fan till the end, will undoubtedly have on a Daisy Duck T-shirt with Daisy looking much more energetic than I expect to be.

* Tickets can be purchased for any of the games through the links below.

http://www.ticketamerica.com/portland_trail_blazers_tickets.html
http://www.ticketamerica.com/phoenix_suns_tickets.html
http://www.ticketamerica.com/san_antonio_spurs_tickets.html
http://www.ticketamerica.com/new_orleans_hornets_tickets.html
http://www.ticketamerica.com/los_angeles_lakers_tickets.html