Go Cougars!

So in my ward we have quite a few sports fanatics. They even go to some of the away BYU football games. We have a few of them in our dinner group so we've gotten to be pretty good friends. For BYU's most recent away game, vs. CSU, they made an announcement at ward prayer that anyone was invited to come along. Jessica and I were feeling adventurous so we decided we'd go along. Well they had been thinking about renting a big van, but since I had rental reimbursement because of my wrecked car, I suggested that I upgrade to a van and everyone could just pay the difference. So we got ourselves a blue minivan and headed off to the game in Fort Collins, Colorado. Luckily a girl in our ward is from Boulder and offered for us all to stay at her house.

So we headed to Colorado Friday afternoon, got there around 10:00 pm. The girl in our ward lives in this gate community with huge homes! When we got to her house her mom had made dozens and dozens of different kinds of cookies and had ice cream for us. The next morning for breakfast there was again a smorgasbord of food. There was cider, orange juice (probably fresh squeezed), and milk to drink. There was a huge fruit tray and dip. It wasn't your typical fruit tray of canteloupe, honeydew, and grapes -- It had blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, and pineapple as well! Then there were bagels, muffins, and danishes galore and her mom had made this big omelet type of thing that was so delicious, it even had avocados in it. I should have taken some pictures of all the food and their house. It was like a vacation!

After breakfast we headed into town and went to an outdoor mall to kill some time. I took this picture of a lady doing yoga on top of a van.

Then we grabbed some pizzas and headed over to the CSU stadium to make some posters and tailgate.

The boys had me do the posters for them...

Sonny is the name of Colorado's coach...

Our cable provider, Dish, doesn't broadcast BCS football games...

So two of the girls we went with, Chelsea and Whitney, saw these guys and asked them if we could take a picture with them. It's kind of funny because it sort of looks like they are wearing blue shade shirts...

Here we are before the game...

Kickoff...

We beat CSU 24-3. BYU is actually doing really well this year -- they are ranked for the first time in a little while! After the game we headed back to good old Provo!