First Trip to Auburn, Part I

I am extremely overwhelmed with the amount of posts I have to write, so I decided I’d start with the most current and go backwards.  I still have the tornado post that has been sitting in my drafts because I can’t write on it without crying.  Never fear, I will get caught up soon!____________________________________________________________

This weekend, I took my very first trip to the town of our in-state rivals, the Auburn Tigers.  I honestly don’t know why it took me 26 years to make it there.  I remember being invited by friends in undergrad, but I always had something going on and before I knew it, I had “grown up” and still never visited there.  Plus, I have never really cared anything about just going to hang out (and honestly, still don’t)

Anyway, Alabama was playing Auburn in baseball this weekend, and my brother really wanted to go, especially since his former teammate would be playing his last game for Auburn.  He had mentioned to Alex a while back that he might come down and stay with him in Montgomery and they could go to the games.  The problem was that as of Thursday, Josh had not officially made up his mind about coming and Alex was trying to decide whether or not to come to Tuscaloosa for the weekend.  Alex was calling asking what Josh was doing and I was calling Josh and asking him, only getting an “I don’t know” response.  Why they couldn’t just call each other is beyond me….

We finally figured out Josh’s hesitation was that he didn’t want to drive by himself.  He’s spending the month in North Alabama, so it was going to be a good three-hour drive to Montgomery.  Once I figured that out, I volunteered to ride with him if he could swing through T-town and pick me up.

Let me preface this by saying that I have not had a free weekend in Tuscaloosa this entire semester, so my poor apartment has suffered neglect from me not being here OR being here and solely working on school stuff.  This past weekend was supposed to be my free weekend to catch up on stuff around the house and get my online course ready.  This option kept Josh happy and I could still see Alex, so win-win, kind of, for me.

We headed out around 3ish on Friday for Montgomery.  They had a game at 6:00 on Friday night, so we were hurrying to try and make it time.  It was pouring by the time we got to Montgomery and decided we didn’t want to drive all the way to Auburn (it is about 40 minutes away) if they weren’t going to play so we watched the Auburn baseball twitter feed (note that I didn’t say “follow”…I just couldn’t do it! ;)) and they FINALLY cancelled it and scheduled a double-header for the next game.  So, we got to spend a night hanging around the apartment and had some yummy Mexican food from a nearby restaurant that we’ve been dying to try!

Next up:  Sunburns, sunshine, and fireworks ;)