Many people went to the Cotton Bowl to see K-State play Arkansas. Mom and I did not. We stayed home and watched the game and wished we were there, even though K-State didn't pull out a victory. Little sister Lauren got to go, and so did many of our friends.
But as a sweet bonus, one of the teachers I work with offered me her basketball tickets for the day after the Cotton Bowl. K-State was playing Missouri in Manhattan, and we were super excited to get the opportunity to go to Manhattan for the day.
Keep in mind when we left that morning, we weren't optimistic. Missouri was in the top 10. We lost terribly to KU in basketball on Wednesday night. We forgot to catch some passes against Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl. It could have been a terrible trifecta of losses for our alma mater.
But K-State showed up on Saturday. We led the entire game and sometimes by as much as twenty points! It was a big upset for us, and it was so fun to watch. Richard came too and enjoyed his first trip to the Octagon of Doom.
It was gray and overcast but the perfect Saturday for us. Basketball games take a lot less energy than football tailgates and trips to the Bill. We rolled into town at 11, had a leisurely lunch at CocoBolos, watched all of the game, and had coffee with Candi in Aggieville afterwards. We were only gone ten hours unlike football game day which often takes at least twelve hours. It made me very glad that we're going back in two weeks to see another game.
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Wish our football game day had been 12 hours! We arrived at the parking lot at 7:30 a.m. because we were told it would fill up by 8 - it never did, but we didn't know that! We arrived back at our hotel at 2 a.m. Saturday morning. Yikes! Needless to say we were exhausted. But we loved listening to the game on the way home. It was a great way to end the trip!
ReplyDeleteYour mom and Richard have different photography styles. :) Sounds like a fun trip, even if you didn't have So Long.
ReplyDeleteI talked to some Arkansas fans who were at the Cotton Bowl. They had great things to say about our fans. They were confused about why our fans kept talking about the Hawks. They were like, "No, it's the hogs. We're the hogs, not the hawks."
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