Oh how I miss college...

This past weekend I went down to Blacksburg to visit VT and go to the Spring Game/Alumni Tailgate. What actually ended up happening with Alumni Tailgating and going to El-Rod's...this is the only time I'd let myself miss a football game in Blacksburg. Considering we were scrimmaging ourselves, I say we'd win :)
We (Susan, Sarah, Jen and I) left Arlington around 2:15 on Friday afternoon. After sitting in traffic on 66 for 45 minutes to go about 5 miles (shocker) we finally got moving. A stop @ Chick-fil-a @ JMU, a driver switch and we were on our way again. Another traffic jam (in Roanoke) made our final journey time around 5 hours. When it usually take 3.5-4...so I guess, for a Friday afternoon, it wasn't too bad.

After eating dinner with Susan's family - yummy Spaghetti - we got ready and headed DT to Big Al's. Blacksburg is CROWDED on football game weekends, everyone knows that...but we didn't expect the spring game to bring in that big of a crowd. We were definitely wrong. There was barely a place to stand without getting molested as people tried to push past you. After a few hours of molestation, we decided to go to our friend's apartment. Where, someone was celebrating their 18th birthday. If that doesn't make you feel old...nothing will. I think the high-light of the night was on our way home, stopping @ Gumby's and getting pokey sticks. Definitely not on the diet, but a definite must when you're in Blacksburg.

On Saturday morning, we got up, had breakfast with Susan's family and then started to get ready to head to the tailgate. We got there around 11, and started drinking. It was definitely one of the best tailgates I've been to in the past few years. The turn out was amazing (it was awesome to see everyone) and the food was good :) Once the game started and people started trickling away, some of us decided to go to El-Rods for some food and Jumbo Margarita's...good life choices. After El-Rods, Susan, Jen and myself went back to Susan's Mom's and took a little nap.

After our nap, we got ready to go back to DT. After a few moments @ Big Al's we decided that we once again couldn't handle the crowd, and decided to move to TOTS. It was, surprisingly, uncrowded (which changed as the night wore on) and we got good spots (standing though). After a few hours and a couple of incidents, such as one person almost getting thrown out, and another person actually getting thrown out...we decided to throw in the towel.

It was a good/fun trip down to Blacksburg. It made me miss college, the people, the town and just generally not having that many responsibilities. We talked about how it was funny that when we were in college and alumni would come back and tell us just how awesome college was and to "never leave!" we'd just smile and nod. And now, we're those alumni...oh, kids these days :)