lillis and i packed up and headed to t-town for the alabama/uga game. she had gotten to watch the 2nd half of the bama arkansas game at the restaurant that bama fans go to in hotlanta, so she had an inkling of what it might be like, but i still think she was maybe a little overwhelmed. the game ended disappointingly as stafford threw the pass of his life to knock us off in overtime. anyway, on to the pics and (as always, or usual at least)
here is a link to the full album
before the game we hosted “gameday’. here chris isn’t happy with something as lee talks about a bunch of games i don’t care about.
lee ended up picking the tide to win……oh, but it was not to be. 🙁
lillis and i pause for a shot during gameday
jason’s brother in law rocky has a pretty sweet bama golf cart that we tour the campus with. here his daughter peers into foster auditorium. the plack denotes that this was the site of the “stand in the schoolhouse door” (as featured in forrest gump). it was also where i learned to play volleyball, and where we practiced, coached and played while i was in school. and, btw, we let anyone come in that wanted.
here is my old house. it’s called 620 (unsuprisingly that was the address). this was the site of near-weekly parties and just a ton of good memories of hanging out on the front porch, throwing football in the front yard, playing ping pong in elaborate tournaments that were never finished, stealing road signs, sitting on the roof after football games, the 620 band, guest stars “the penetrators”, and replanting the front yard with sod from bryant denny field after someone salted my yard and set off a small pipe bomb on the night of my 21st birthday as a hate crime against people with good grades – btw, the party persisted nonetheless.
big al had asked to get his picture taken with us. we obliged
jason and i were stunned when i located a keg in “the locker room” a relatively upscale clothing store just off campus. that’s alabama football!!!
no more discussions of the game that took place later that day…… sooo, starwipe to the next day. we went out to the quad to play some volleyball, and lillis and her new friend michael wandered around and took pictures of stuff (like each other doing yoga on the steps of the library).
michael’s form looks a little more electric boogaloo than ashtanga.
while i was busy demonstrating how to make contact behind your head rather than in front (where it should be). lord, i am out of practice.
it was a great weekend in spite of the tide’s defeat, and the game itself definitely felt like a continuation of a theme of our guys playing with heart and never giving up. that was good to see (for the first time since 1999).
