bye,bye, bobby

we spent our new year's in jacksonville. we went to the gator bowl to see bobby bowden's last game. very sad. there was a new year's party the night before for the booster club at river city brewery. it was pretty cool if you're into big parties like that. i'm not, but it was still fun. they had some old coaches there speaking and part of the band and cheerleading squad. we were able to entertain ourselves by watching this group on the dance floor. it was two guys and two girls. it was hard to tell if they knew each other or not, and who was actually hooking up with who. not sure, but there may have been alcohol involved.
we didn't actually make it to midnight. i think we left about quarter 'til. too bad, probably, because i think they shot fireworks over the river, which was probably very pretty, if not environmentally friendly.
we went back the next day because they allowed parking for the game and access to an express water taxi which took us to the stadium. it probably would have been cooler if it wasn't 50 degrees and raining. fortunately, the rain had mostly stopped by kickoff. didn't get much warmer, but the sun did come out in the second half.
the game itself was good. started out a little slow, but they picked it up in the second quarter and sent bobby out on a good note. it would have been nice if we could have heard all of his postgame interview, but there were some problems with the cbs mikes. i would have thought that for something like that, they would have made sure that everything was working properly. oh, well.
it's fun to get away like that, but we're glad to be back home. we kinda missed the little one. she stayed with granny & poppy watson, so she may not have missed us as much.
jolynn & rebekah have one more day of vacation before it's back to the real world of school and work. for me, every day is like a vacation, so i won't have to adjust.
happy new year!