So this weekend was pretty great. I spent Friday watching movies with Richard. We saw Righteous Kill and a lot of REBA and a great little show called 'Worlds Trashiest Weddings'. On Saturday, we ran some errands and that night, I met up with Katie at Applebees. There is a reason why I'm never chosen for DD. Because I like to drink. I thought 'sure just one...but I wont' drive for an hour and a half.' Well such a bad idea. But I was okay but the time we headed to M16 to see 'Bride Wars' which was pretty hilarious. I can't wait until it comes out on DVD. Sunday we visited my mother and picked up the key to the new house which I'm a nervous wreck over. There is so much to do. I wish someone would paint it and fill it with my family and suprise me. I guess I'm not dropping enough hints around here.


Florida beat Oklahoma in the NC game. I was bummed as I was rooting for the Sooners but good for the Gators. I just love me some Sam Bradford.

I need to go fill out an email survery that Liz sent me

LAter

"And everytime you speak her name does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you died?"

Well I wanted to post from Miami but no such luck. It just went by too fast and too much to do. There was not a second of "let's rest" but instead "go enjoy the beach for 20 min and then its off to brunch". So I'm posting from the car driving back to pete and marys in Atlanta. I've never spent so much time in a car in my life.

There is much to tell so I will do so in Chronological fashion. The trip down was great. Leaving Ohio at 30 degrees and ending in Miami at 80 degrees is unspeakably awesome. We had to check on Wedbesday and check out the jacuzzi before showering for our cruise. We got to Miami and enjoyed dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. Miami is beautiful by the way. Palm Trees and water and yachts and shopping: the list goes on. I hate bridges so there is an aspect that I hate about all the islands around Biscayne Bay. I just hate islands. The cruise was wonderful. It was fun and sweet anf gorgeous. Spectacular fireworks show at the end over miami.

Traffic in Miami has no logic or reason. People just go wheneverthehelltheyfeel. They don't care about red lights or green lights or laws or police (why should they? The police behave the same way). We were so exhausted when we arrived back in Boca Rotan that a bed at the Best Western felt like the most comfortable thing in the world.

Onto Thursday we reluctantly got up early to marry JoJean and Curt. Richard acted as photographer/witness and I was officiating. Then brunch and then beach time where there was a "sand" incident. I won't go into details but we will probably not be invited back to a Hilton any time soon.

We met up with Peter and Mary after that to prepare for the whole reason for the trip; The Orange Bowl. Excitement was building as we did a little tailgating and drinking. I didn't get to meet up with my Banter guys but no big deal.

Occaisionally during the trip Rich and I would randomly say to eachother "we made it!". It had little to do with the fact that we were in Miami but everything to do with the fact that our favorite team in the world was in the BCS!

The coin toss should have been an ominous sign of things to come. We started with an awesome drive. We scored. It was a great 2 min. The rest of the 58 minutes of game play were devastating. Pike threw 4 interceptions. The Defense could not stop VT's Taylor or the run game. It was like watching high school kids at the superbowl. I started to prepare myself for the loss at halftime. I never thought of losing being an option before that. It hit me like a ton of bricks. We were going to lose this game. And we did.

20 to 7 Final.

An end to a great season. Bittersweet. Hate to send the seniors out on such a note. But they won the Big East and went 11 and 2 and were ranked #12 after the regular season. I love the Bearcats. They did me proud.

Now the trek back home...