My family is your typical family of four that lives in rural Rhode Island. Both of my parents work, my brother graduated college, I am a student in college, we have two pets, everyone has their own car, and dinner is served every night on the table. My family has always valued traditional American sports like football and in the winter time I watch hockey almost religiously, so you could say that I was a little surprised when my mom texted me while I was at school inviting me to a polo match with her that weekend.

One of my mom's long time friends from growing up likes to participate in the luxury events life has to offer and this year he bought a table on the pavilion at the Newport Polo Field. This game, he decided to invite my mother and my mom in turn invited me. Being a sports admirer myself, she figured I would enjoy watching the match. Because this experience was completely out of our comfort zone, the only thing we could think to do to cope with it was joke about it. The running joke for the weekend was that I would find a rich kid to pay for the rest of my education.

Although that didn't happen, my mom and I had a blast embracing our inner Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman. My mom drank champagne and we had small finger foods while sitting on the upper pavilion, watching a sport typically only watched by the upper class. My mom was able to reconnect with one of her best friends growing up and I was able to spend the day pretending to be a member of high society. All in all, I would say I made Julia Roberts proud by stomping the divots, mingling, and doing my fair share of people watching. I'm happy I was able to spend the afternoon with my mom doing something that we normally would not have done.