First, random photos of my loves.
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| Shameless adorable photo of MacK |
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Another one.
Be grateful I don't have children. HA! |
We attended at fundraiser at Heidi and Andrew's church for a cause near to them. We got to put our names on a heart since we gave funds. Jackson looked adorable that night. Giving looks good on him! ;)
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| How cute is my date?! |
Ok, the meat of this post is our trip to Notre Dame, Indiana to see their football team take on Florida State. Yes, this was my second FSU game of the year. It was SIGNIFICANTLY colder at this game versus the one in Miami. It turns out a November 10th game in South Bend is a real gamble when it comes to weather!
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| The famous golden dome |
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| Actually just their admin building! |
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| Petefish. |
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| Looking up the dome |
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| "Touchdown Jesus" |
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| Petefish. |
Interestingly, one of my very favorite friends from high school, Matt, is a priest at Notre Dame. We've stayed in touch but I had not seen him since college. Luckily, he was available the day we were on campus. We got there early and he gave us a tour of all the highlights. Though I despise all things Notre Dame, I had an ND shirt from losing a bet years ago. In hopes of having a more positive experience I decided to wear that ND shirt for our tour. It worked! People were just lovely. It was SO fun to see Father Kuczora (still so strange that he's actually a priest) and finally mark a trip to ND off our Indiana bucket list.
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| Back to rooting for FSU |
Eventually we caught up with Kortnee and Jason. We had lucked out and the local Holiday Inn Express had a last minute reward point room available so we grabbed a room and hung out trying to warm up before returning to campus for more touring.
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| Lame! |
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| Inside the basilica on campus |
Finally, it was time for the game. We did not get seats with Kort and Jason as they were just too hard to get so we headed to our $170 EACH seats closer down to the field.
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY DOLLARS PER TICKET. TO STAND IN THE COLD. $170.
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| Good seats, though! |
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| SO COLD! Go Noles! |
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| The bands are my favorite part |
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| A packed house! |
We ended up sitting near some really drunk people. An older guy kept falling into us. It was SO cold. The Noles forgot to show up. We ended up leaving just before half-time because it was just NO fun to be that cold and surrounded by obnoxious drunk people. The ushers were super unhelpful and I ended up sending a strongly-worded email to ND's Athletic department about our experience. They, naturally, never followed up with me. This was not much of an example of their professed religious affiliations...end of rant.
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MacK trying to stay warm at
Uncle Aaron's |
MacKenzie got to spend one last evening with Uncle Aaron since Kokomo was right on our way up to the game. They have a special bond so it was important that they get more time together before we head to Tampa!
