ROLL TIDE

Yesterday might rate high on my list of strange yet great days. We got into the city around 12:30 and wandered for a little bit. We hit up Fanueil Hall, Quincy Market, at lunch in the North End and went to the Gardens to see the duckies. As soon as I get a cord for the camera we'll have some pictures of our day on the town. But the strangest thing also happened to me yesterday. We randomly ran into a guy I used to work with at Shoal Creek. We walked out of Quincy Market and he was wearing an Alabama shirt too. It took me a few seconds to realize it was him. Then it was a lot of "holy crap, how are you?" Strange, mildly interesting and mildly awkward because I didn't remember the wife's name. On top of that I walked passed someone ELSE i know. This wasn't quite as exciting, no stopping in the middle of the street for hugs. It was my debate camp lab leader from my first year at camp and i'm totally sure of it.

We ended up at the bar super early to beat the crowds and all that. Honestly we could have gotten there at 6:30 and been fine, but whatever. At the Sports Depot in Allston there were many surprises. The first one being that pitchers were $15!!!!! Never in my life! I'm used to them being mayeb $8, but usually less than that. Patrick and I almost lost it, being up here is expensive!! Another surprise, at least for me, was that the alumni group was almost all people our age. No old fogies or anything. The group included an ex-football player and his fiancee, Katie Boyd (SGA president not beauty queen). I had a class with Katie and I always liked her. Everyone else was great too. There was a lot of drinking, eating and being merry along with a great win for Alabama!! And another surprise, my friend from Women's Studies Melissa showed up! I was really glad to see her and i'm glad we can be friends again.


The only non fantastic part of the evening was the trip home. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the Sox and even more about the no hitter last night but the trip back to the train station was a nightmare. We had to wait almost 20 minutes in Allston for the green line inbound then it was absolutely packed out. We spent probably another 30ish minutes going from the green line to the red line then barely made it to south station to get our train to Providence. Somehow I ended up insanely thirsty which made me grumpy. But all in all we made it home in one piece and today should be even better than yesterday because my mom is coming!!!