We must be in Boone.
Yes indeedy!
Friday after work, I dropped Gatsby off at Suite Paws and then waited for Brian to come home. So, we set off around 6:15 and it was cold and rainy.
We stopped at the Cracker Barrel in Burlington for dinner and it was cold and rainy.
We got to Hickory and drove past our old house in Falling Creek and it was cold and rainy.
Saturday morning, we woke up and it was cold and rainy.
We drove to Boone and went to the game and it was cold and rainy.
We drove home to Raleigh Saturday night and it was cold and rainy.
We woke up this morning with nowhere to go and it was sunny and beautiful.
Go figure.
Despite the crummy weather, we had a FANTASTIC weekend! Saturday morning we went to breakfast at Cafe Gouda, which was awesome, per usual. Brian had Belgian waffles and mom, dad, and I had pumpkin-stuffed French toast. Everything was delicious!
Afterward, we headed up the mountain and stopped in to the bookstore to get a few things. Dad had to exchange out a cycling jersey for a different size, Brian wanted a hoodie, and mom and I were looking for hats to wear to keep the rain out of faces during the game.
We had lunch in the Yosef Club room catered by Panera Bread. Because it was so chilly and rainy, in addition to sandwiches they also had soup. Their broccoli and cheese soup is DELICIOUS.
The Yosef Club room was the perfect staging ground to get set for the game. Dad got us all these cool, see-through rain suits to keep our clothes dry:
You can't tell in the pictures, but they also have pants! We were very happy to have them and tons of people kept asking us where we got them.
The game was a good one and App. looked strong. They won 20-7 over Samford in a conference game. Yay, Apps!
There were two highlights of the game:
We were all garbed up in our waterproof gear and all of us had some tunnel vision going on with our hoods and hats. As we were walking in, mom, Brian, and I somehow got separated from my dad, but since we've had the same season ticket seats for the past FOUR seasons, mom, Brian, and I just kept moving along because we all knew where to go. We got to our seats and got our stuff settled and got comfy and enjoyed watching the team warmup. We chatted a bit and said hello to all our fellow fans. After a few minutes, mom and I started wondering where dad went. "Hmm...maybe he saw someone he knew?" So, after about 20 minutes, mom turned to me and started laughing so hard that she couldn't breathe:
Mom: "I know what happened to your dad."
Me: "What????"
Mom: "He's over there ------> in the wrong section."
Yup, dad rolled in and went to the wrong section and stood there for a good 20 minutes, never realizing that he was on the 30 yard line, rather than the 45 yard line where we usually sit (and have sat for the past 4 years)! It was absolutely hilarious. Even funnier was that dad was listening to his radio and mom had to stand there screaming at him for 45 seconds before he noticed her.
Dad said later that he couldn't figure out why in the world mom, Brian, and I were being such wusses and staying under the stands to be out of the rain. :-)
The second highlight was a PHENOMENAL play by Armanti Edwards to elude Samford's defense. Even if you don't like football, I think you can appreciate how cool this was:
Go APP!
More photos from this weekend: http://picasaweb.google.com/lsleblanc82/AppVsSamford.
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