Auburn Football Experience 2010

Right now I'm home recouperating from a weekend trip to Auburn. Since I have moved to Nashville it has been difficult to attend Auburn games on a weekly basis, so I have resorted to pick at least one good conference game to attend each year. This year Zac and I selected the Arkansas game. It and what an amazing game it was!

The stands are still full, even at the end of the 4th quarter.

Along with watch some great football we also spent some overdue quality time with family and friends. 

Zac and I with my parents, my sibilings and their fiances

 

Victory visit to Toomer's Corner

 After any Auburn victory fans roll the trees on Toomer's Corner. It is a great opportunity to take in the excitement and energy of the day and it provides for some great photo opportunities. Yesterday evening while out on Toomer's Corner we encountered a "Tall Bike." Now may of you may not know what a "Tall Bike" is; but it is not hard to figure out because the name isn't too clever. It is just a bicycle that is extremely tall (approximately 7 feet high). Is it constructed from two bike frames that are welded together. When I first moved to Nashville encountering a "Tall Bike" was about as elusive as encountering a popular musician: it wasn't an unexpected occurrence but when you did bump into one you had to tell all of your friends about it. However over the years the "Tall Bike" species has become endanger of extinction in Nashville. Therefore I was so thrilled to see one in Auburn I had to ask for a photo. As you can see they may have talent for mastering a high center of gravity, but they are a bit awkward in front of the camera.

Happy Trails to my Auburn "Tall Bike" comrade. Live long and strong and WAR EAGLE!

PBR

The weekend before last Zac and I went with our friends Matt and Bethany Bratcher to the PBR event. Now for many PBR stands for Pabst Blue Ribbon but to a cowboy the true PBR is the Professional Bull Riders.

It was a last minute affair; we decided on Friday night that we wanted to go. Saturday we searched for decent tickets at a reasonable price, which lead us all the way downtown to the arena to purchase the tickets at the box office. Now, I may be dating how young I am but I have never had to go to a box office to pre-purchase tickets. I felt like the kids on Dazed and Confused, driving all the way to the city to buy my summer concert tickets the day after school gets out. 

The four of us put on our cowboy hats and boots and "pre-gamed" at Jim 'N Nicks Bar-B-Q (one of my favorite restaurants, which Zac refers to as "Kelly's Happy Place"). Then we moved to the arena to see the "Toughest Sport on Earth." It was so much fun. If you haven't seen the PBR you should check it out sometime on the VS. channel. It's hard to describe but fun to watch. 

Afterwards we tried our hand at doing a bit of honky-tonking a 'la tourist style, but we only went as far as the front door of Tootsies when we realized that this heat wave was way too hot to enter inside a over crowded bar. -- You know you are getting old when you start to reason whether it is sensible or not to enter a bar. *Sigh* So to recap: young enough to only know of Ticketmaster, old enough to rather drink wine at home rather than Jack and Coke in a dive bar.

Zac got a kick out of this: it's the PBR zamboni.