Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Today is a day of laziness and recovery following yesterday's long day of tailgating and celebrating Iowa State's 44-41 victory over Iowa!  The game started a 11 AM, so we had to get to the student lot EARLY... we were parked and started our fun around 5:30 AM!  We had quite a few friends there to help celebrate including Erick Ude, Jenny Manser, Abbey Podliska, Matthew Kovarna, Tim Nevins, Kaitlin Michaelsen, and Abby Grace to name a few.  This week we didn't have tickets to actually go into the game, but we had plenty of fun just hanging out and having "a few" drinks :)  Later on we walked over to Welch Ave. Station to watch the last part of the game... I was able to watch the end of the 4th quarter and overtime.  There were quite a few silly Hawkeye fans cheering at the bar, but it was fun to see them completely quiet at the and of the game!  Iowa State's win was the first time the two teams had every played an overtime against each other in their long history.  It was also the second-largest crowd in Jack Trice Stadium history.  Today my voice is shot from all of the cheering I was doing (a condition known as Ames voice). 

Cheering after we hear a touchdown announcement from the stadium.

Casually enjoying a cold beverage.

These officers were friendly enough to have their picture taken with me.  They told us how the week prior they had ticketed many more UNI fans than ISU fans.  Very smart.

Flippy cup and beer pong were the games of choice.

Kaitlin, Abby Grace, Elizabeth, and Kovarna at the tailgate.

Me, Kaitlin, Abbey Podliska, and Kovarna.

I can't finish my blog today without mentioning that it has been exactly 10 years since the horrible terrorist attack on 9/11/01.  I remember that I was a senior in high school at Laurens-Marathon when it happened.  I heard of a plane crash during first period, but didn't realize it wasn't an accident.  Then during second period Government class, they brought a TV in and let us watch what was going on.  We saw the second plane crash, and for the rest of the day all of our classes just had us watch TV.  We watched both of the buildings collapse, and it was like a bad movie.  That really was a crazy time because it didn't even seem like reality.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the people affected by the events of that day and to all of the people who tragically lost their lives.