roll tide part 2

So we made it to the rose bowl around 1:30 which gave us a few hours to wander around before kickoff. There is a municipal golf course right beside the rose bowl that they shut down and allow tons of people to park and tailgate on, which was a great environment. It was a standard beautiful california day as well:



Texas and Alabama have to be two of the schools with the most stereotypically funny fanbases, and they delivered. There were good old bama boys, nerds wearing cowboy chaps, 65 year old dolled up southern belles straight off the ranch, and plenty of other characters.

We ate some food, walked through the various tailgate chaos, and chatted it up with some folks before we went inside the stadium... the rose bowl is pretty short and wide so there wasn't really a bad seat in the house



Our tickets were in the Texas section so we of course let out a few ROLL TIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEs to let everyone know what was up. Mr. Vecchione, Sabo's friends dad from Ohio (the one who got us the tickets), sat with us and it was great to meet him and hear all his stories. He works for the BCS and his job entails something about communicating with all the athletic directors of the Universities, so he has been to every big college sporting event you can probably imagine. Certainly a great guy to be friends with if you want tickets to any college ANYTHING, if you smell what im steppin in. He thought it was hilarious that I play cards for a living and Sabo teaches inner city kids, and he couldn't stop laughing about how opposite our jobs were

So the game was great, though both fanbases really did feel terrible for Colt McCoy. Injuries are unfortunately a huge part of sports though, so what can you do. Bama led big throughout the game but then Texas made it exciting in the end, which was fun.



In the weirdest coincidence ever, Sabo spotted Sarah Roach, a good friend of ours from UNC, sitting really close to us at the game. So after the game we headed back to LA and met up in Hollywood to catch up with Roach, who has been working on an allstate football promo tour for the last few months. It was great to see her and I still can't believe in a stadium of 95,000 people, we were sitting with 25 yards of eachother hahahaaha

We crashed at our friends place again, and got up early the next morning to head to San Diego. We stopped at all the cool beach towns on the way, just eating and taking it easy. Here I am in famous laguna beach, looking around desperately for LC and Kristen and all those other crazy girls from the MTV show



San Diego was great, and we spend the next two days hanging out on the beach and then downtown eating and people watching. They have a really cool area in downtown San Diego called the gas lamp quarter that has a bunch of bars and restaurants where everyone goes on the weekends, so it was cool to see that. And you know Im gonna love any city that is 75 and sunny at the beginning of januaryyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Sadly, we headed back on the morning of the 10th because Sabo had to be at school the following day. Its about a long trip from SD back up to the bay, which some people would hate, but I think its fun to sing the lady gaga radio songs in a car for 7 hours (seriously). All in all it was a great trip, and socal was as cool as advertised

We put something like 1800 miles on the 4runner, and it handled it like a champ obviously. We will be back down there again I'm sure, I told Sabo we should just extend it a little more next time and do the entire west coast from Vancouver to Tijuana, YIKES



PEACE. I haven't played cards in like 4 weeks and I spent all yesterday rock climbing with Derek (I'm still horrible) so I should probably go try to earn some scrilla