Monday Madness

So you know how sometimes you have a regular day and then something extraordinary happens? This was our Monday. 
It started out like every other Monday, we stayed at home lazying around because that's what we do on Mondays. Around 11 in the morning, while Ron and I were very busy playing Mario Kart (Ron kicks my ass every time...) when suddenly my phone rings and Hidai's first words are -Stop everything you are doing... Ron is going to the match today.
The match on Monday was the Arsenal Under 21's first match of the season and one of the only 2 matches they have in the Emirates Stadium this year. A couple of weeks ago the Junior Gunners opened a ruffle to win a chance to escort the players to the pitch and naturally I entered Ron's name, but when we didn't hear anything I assumed we lost (as usual). Which we did.
But someone cancelled at the last moment, and they called Hidai to see if we can make it on such a short notice.
What do you think he said?
The match was due to start at 7, and we were supposed to get to the security entrance at 6, so of course we ended up running all the way to the stadium and were the last to get there... 
After Ron went inside (without us, and worried because they said bring your bag with you, but he did not have a bag), we went to the regular entrance. Hidai got his ticket for free, with Ron, but Yon and I had to buy ours (4 pounds for mine and 2 for Yons). It was Yon and mine first time inside the stadium so it took us a little while to get used to it... Unlike a usual match, there weren't assigned seats so we chose the fourth row in the middle, and waited for Ron...
Apparently the idea was for 12 kids to stand at the entrance to the players tunnel with flags and be a Guard of Honour for the players when they come out of the tunnel, so it was really hard to see him and take photos of him...
After the match started Hidai went to bring Ron back to watch the match with us, and so we watched the match from really up close, hoped to catch a stray ball (none flew our way), ate Pringles and enjoyed watching the team win 3:1.
Even Yon behaved most of the time :)
And to conclude this enormous experience for Ron 2 more things happened - he got to meet Arsène Wenger while waiting to go out to the pitch (a dream comes true for him),
and today we found out that there was a photographer there and Ron got 3 professional photos taken of him, and they are on the Arsenal website! 
Here is a link to the Junior Gunner site - http://www.arsenal.com/juniorgunners/news/jg-guard-of-honour-arsenal-v-bolton-u21 (Ron is in photos 1-3).

From the JG site