Cherrie Jones Tailgate Party

Sunday, November 11th was Veteran's Day.  It was also the day of our annual Cherrie Jones Tailgate Party and it's always against the Detroit Lions.  The weather was cold and rainy and if it was just the day before, it would have been sunny and about 60 degrees.  The Vikings Skol Line came to visit us again and we even had a visitor from Maryland. When M and I went to see the Vikings play in Jacksonville in November 2008, we met a guy who brings around a blow-up purple space alien named Fred.  It's his gimmick and he brings it to every Vikings game he attends and has even had to buy a seat for him in some stadiums. Since meeting him in 2008, we've run into/seen him probably six times. While he lives in Maryland, he travels all over the nation to see the Vikings and comes to see the Vikings in MN one or two times a year. He didn't know we were having our tailgate party that day but knew we tailgate in that lot so he found us and presented M with his very own purple space alien.

We missed out on some key people being there this year due to various reasons but we made up for it with new faces. We had more Detroit fans join our party this year as our friend Andrew is from Michigan and a big chunk of his family came out for the game. Overall, we had a huge group of 115+ people and we all enjoyed the tailgating and even the game! Vikings win 34-24 with Adrian Peterson rushing for 171 yards.   A big thank you to all my family that attended: Jamie, Tom, Dennis, Pat, Troy, Tara, Laura, Chris, John, Jen and their friends Matt and Nicole.

Sorry to those that didn't make it in the picture!