ASU Homecoming and The 8-0 Victory!

The first comment I made yesterday as Paul and I raced through the campus of Arizona State University just before the big homecomming game agains California was "Wow! I feel 10 years younger all of a sudden!" What a rush! Some friends of Paul's (and officially my friends too, but they were his friends first) invited us to the big game yesterday! I've been to a professional football game, but this was actually my first big college game. It was amazing!

The first hurdle was just getting to the huge, packed sold-out stadium in one piece. Our babysitter Yulia came at 4:00 and the game didn't start until 7:00, but trust me, you need that much time to get through the traffic. We slugged our way around the stadium until we found a storage facility about a mile away offering parking for $15. Not a bad price, but that left a long walk. The weather was good and it was fun to see parts of the campus I had never seen.

For the record, I am no alumni of this university. Paul's friend was, so we were going to meet her in an alumni tent. It took us awhile, but we found the tent and we found her. We were able to sneak a few drinks in and a plate loaded with fried up Mexican food before hitting the field. Perfect!

As I said before, the stadium was totally sold out! And of coure 90% of the crowd was ASU fans. Whenever they made a touchdown or even threw a completed pass the whole stadium erupted! It was really the most fun I've ever had at a game. It was impoosible not to get caught up in the enthusiam.

Paul and I did the old-fogie thing though and we left with 12 min left on the clock. We wanted to beat the crowd. I wouldn't usually worry so much about that, but when you're paying a babysitter by the hour, time becomes a bit more precious! It would've been fun for the kids to go to a game, but it would've been murder dragging them through those kinds of crowds and keeping them up so late. We will have to do a daytime game sometime.

It was so much fun just feeling like a college student again without a care in the world and forgetting for a moment all the huge responsibilities we have. It also makes me think of all the fun to come as the kids get older! One day they'll be in college and maybe we can tag along to games. Kid's love their parents doing that, don't they?