Catchup From 2008 (JMU Football!!)

Annie, Kristen and I made a lovely night of candlelight dinner and FOOTBALL! JMU was in the running for the Championship and they played against Montana. Obviously we couldn't miss it, being the rabid sports fans we are (just kidding). Anyway, we braved the cold and the crowds and it was great. This is randomly bizarre; but the guy sitting next to Kristen? I actually sat next to him at the last JMU game I went to a couple of years ago. Weird, just plain weird.Football is actually pretty fun when you're watching it live and it's team you care about. I almost lost my voice I screamed so much, but they lost anyway. So sad.

Christmas Is The New Halloween

Come to think of it the weekend actually started with Halloween which we decided to skip and celebrate Christmas instead.
We figured Halloween and Thanksgiving are rather dull holidays anyway and so why not get things started early?

MJ wanted to dress up as a JMU Girl but we convinced her to wear clothes.

We tried our best to spread holiday cheer everywhere we went. The bus we ended up riding seemed like it held enough people to populate an entire country. A very small, loud, smelly and inebriated country.

The rarest sight of the night ended up being LoBo Riding A Bike. She didn't seem to enjoy it much but Janoodle and I did.

Smells like snow...and Obama

Since Obama decided to come to JMU, Lauren, Jeanne and I decided to brave the cold and go hear him speak. It turns out that a lot of other people had the same idea, a lot turning out to be over 25,000 people. We found out that people started lining up the night before and some of our neighbors got in line at 9 in the morning!

We ended up lining up in a field behind UREC since we were trying to avoid the line that stretched all the way to the Arboretum. We got there at 2 and Jeanne joined us at 3 and by the time we left we were so cold none of us could feel our fingers.

It turns out we were lucky we were in the field since before Obama went into the Convocation center he stopped and talked to the crowd! Everyone started running towards the corner where he was speaking which made it pretty exciting.

He basically just said "hey I'm Obama" (Jeanne's paraphrase) and told us to make sure to vote.

We thought the helicopter in the field across from our house was Obama's; but it ended up being Warner's.