I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

 Football is a funny little thing.

me and some other Aggies roadtripped up to Boise this weekend for our first Bowl game in a crap ton of years. Even tho we lost by one point in the last 30 seconds it was still semi worth it to drive up to Boise for my very first time. I love everything about 1. roadtrips 2. football games 3. meeting new people that go to Utah State, that i didnt know until this trip 4. waking up with a raspy voice from yelling the prior day. yes please.

first new friend, Dan Barello's, this kid right here is the biggest hoot to spend time with. quizzed us on songs all the way up, and its impossible not to die laughing with him at least once while with him.

Boise was alot different than i thought, but i really enjoyed it. Ive spent so much time making fun of the smurf turf, but i have to admit, its pretty incredible.

The Famous potato bowl had potatoes EVERYWHERE. They even had a mascot dressed like a potato. idaho is the only place you see this kind of spirit for a vegetable.

Dan, Beard man, and Ben

There they are.

 uhhh.. yeah, im confused too.

And this is when the game started going down hill.. The kid in the background displays the same emotion. It was so painful watching the last minute of the game. I wanted to just leave and curl up and die. mk maybe not, but i was actually getting choked up like a baby. after we lost, it just turned into anger.

We hit up B-dubs after the game

.. drank our sorrows away

...while watching the review of the game. sad day. We all took a wing of the blazin hot wings to see if we could do it, and lets just say for the rest of the night, some of us had a few more bathroom breaks than normal..., became the joke that never ended for the rest of the night. the 2 apples we ate earlier in the day didnt really help with the bowel issues.

later in the night we took a hike to a natural hot springs in freezing weather, and met up with other utah state students that came up for the game. The hike down was a tid more cold than the hike up, everyones hair and suits froze within minutes.

on our drive home we saw this guys practicing his skiing skills with roller ski's. he was so dead serious about it.

we stopped and frolic'd through these trees on the side of the road, they were so beautiful. and the weather was perfection.

My first frip to Boise was really great, even considering the loss of the aggies. We were proud to get to a bowl game at all, and hope to have another roadtrip next year for another bowl.

I finally get to go home for the holidays! It should be a fantastic time. This concludes the end of my first semester of Senior year of college. I can't believe how old that makes me feel to say out loud.