His Take: Remember how I mentioned that Ariana got me Knicks tickets as my anniversary gift? Well here we are! I was as excited as a kid in a candy store once we arrived at the world's most famous arena, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. Quick tidbit, I have been a Knicks fan as far back as I can remember watching basketball. The New York Knicks were my first sporting love. I grew up watching plenty (and I mean MOSTLY) bad Knicks teams. I remember the Ewing Knicks, the Sprewell/Houston Knicks, the Marbury Knicks, and most recently the David Lee Knicks (yes they were that bad that David Lee was the marquee player). I grew up hating the Bulls (I HATE MJ), the Pacers (I HATE REGGIE EVEN MORE), the Celtics (honestly who likes the Celtics anyway), the Miami Heat (PAT RILEY) and finally the cross town rival, New Jersey Nets. Tonight's game was perfect, it pitted my Knicks against the now Brooklyn Nets. Any who back to the game, we got to the Garden with a boat load of people and made our way to our seats, Section 212, Row 16, Seats 10 & 11. On our way up, the Knicks were kind enough to be handing out orange "NY Made" T shirts, which were awesome, even if was an XL and fit me way too big. We found our seats and our view was great, a little to the left of center court, but we could see the whole court. After finding our seats I went and fetched us two beers, you cannot go to a game and not enjoy a nice beer. $11.50 for a twenty four ounce Stella Artois in a plastic cup with a straw? Sure why not! Ultimately we had two beers each because its a mission to get to and from your seats to the beer stand as well as the bathroom! The game was amazing, and I got Ariana into basketball! She took a liking to Tyson Chandler, naturally the tallest guy on the court, the complete opposite of me. We cheered and screamed along with the couple next to us, because at a Knicks game and you are cheering for my Knicks, you are my friend. The Knicks beat the Nets by nearly 30 so as any fan knows, this made the game 100000 time better. We really enjoyed every minute of the game. Even the half time show was funny. Nick Cannon came out to pull some stunt of him making a full court no look shot, and rather than cheer him on, the garden faithful booed him and chanted "we want Mariah!" I left the game smiling from the game and the amazing time.
After the game we looked at the time and it was still early! It was my suggestion that we walk to Times Square and just enjoy the beautiful weather. We ended up going into Dave & Busters and playing some games. This made the night even more enjoyable! It was half price game night, so all the games cost half the points they usually would. We played plenty of games and we both hit a ticket jackpot on each game! We could not decide on what prizes to get, because Ariana hated everything except the sweets (which she could not eat) so I picked Ninja Turtles ball and a gold fish ice tray (don't judge me, it looked kind of cool). We left Dave & Busters and got home around midnight.
I cannot, and I can not stress this enough, CANNOT wait to go to another Knicks game next season with Ariana. Unfortunately this season was cut short and the Knicks missed the playoffs. What a perfect gift, and what an amazing time. Ariana is now a Knicks fan and maybe she will enjoy sitting and watching the games with me. If you are a couple who are into sports, or even if one of you is into sports, head over and watch your team play. If not, go check out the Knicks at Madison Square Garden and enjoy visiting a landmark of NYC. And always remember, Lets Go Knicks!!
Her Take: So for our anniversary, I got Nicky tickets to the Knicks Nets game at Madison Square Garden. He was so excited and I was too because I had never been to a basketball game before. I thought the seats I got were pretty good actually; we could see everything! The game started at 7 so we grabbed a quick slice at San Marco pizzeria around the corner from my house and then hopped on the train. Nicky was so excited he basically took the plate under my pizza to throw out before I was even done! Anyway, after reprimanding him about that and also telling him to relax a bit on the train after he got stuck between the closing doors of the C train, I pushed some lady out of the way with my hips so we could get off at our stop! We got to MSG at 6:30 and as we walked in, the place was already mobbed. We went through security and metal detectors and finally headed up the escalators where we received free "NY Made" t-shirts (mine fit me like a dress.) We got to our section and we quickly migrated towards the BEER! We got two Stella Artois and went to find our seats. Thank goodness we got there early because once we sat down our row filled up!
All in all, the game was soooo much fun!! We ended up having two beers each, lots of laughs and a lot of fun! and the Knicks won! :) Nicky (and I) had a great time and he was so happy and I was glad that I got him the perfect gift. After the game ended we walked outside, me with my NY made dress on, and we started walking towards Times Square. Apparently we always end up there, I haven't gone to Times Square this many times until we started dating!!
We ended up in front of Dave & Busters and decided to go in! Plus it was half off games Wednesday! So we went up, realized how packed it was, ran to get a card and started to play like the big kids that we are! It was a great time, we both love playing games and we get so into it! We were there for a couple of hours and we won like 892,435,742,582 tickets! So Nicky got a stupid TMNT ball and some other random thing and we headed home.
We got home around midnight, we had an amazing time!! the entire night was a lot of fun!! I would love to go to another game! :)
I actually won 500 :)
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