Harding's Internet is Terrible....So This Post is very very late

Disclaimer: The weekend before last Mom and I went to Nashville to see the Titans/Raiders game. I wrote a post about it a few days later, and I was trying to put pictures from our trip (because the pictures were the best part of the post), but Harding's internet has been creeping and crawling the past few weeks, so I haven't been able to upload any pictures. I tried for several days to get them on and tried a variety of different methods. Finally, I made my way over to Midnight Oil, our coffee shop beside school to put the pictures on. It was still pretty slow over there, so I still didn't get to put all the pictures I wanted on. I guess I could have just made the post without pictures a long time ago......but I'm stubborn. So, here's the post I wrote last week, which seems very boring now. I know everything in this is out of date now. If you want to read it go ahead, if not, I don't blame you.






Anyways, a few weeks ago my Mom asked if I wanted her to come down for Parents Weekend at Harding. I really wanted to see her, but I told her, "Yeah, that would be great. But there's nothing really to do here in Searcy." So, we both decided we would try to meet up in Nashville and go see a Titans game at some point. Well, both of our schedules have been pretty busy, and it was looking like it would probably be till December till we could catch a good game. That all changed last Thursday.

I figured I would just scan EBAY for any future games and suddenly I saw it: 2 tickets that were due up in 15 minutes at $50 that no one had bid on yet. I kept waiting for it to go up and they never did. Finally, I called Mom to see if she wanted to make a spontaneous trip to Nashville. I made a bid with 45 seconds left and somehow got these tickets at $50.....probably the third best deal in history right next to the Babe Ruth trade and the Louisiana Purchase.

What made the weekend better was I got to see a stand up comedy show Friday night at UCA with Seth Myers (from Saturday Night Live) and Demetri Martin (from the Daily Show) with my friend Natalie. It was hilarious! Maybe it was because I was in comedy mode, but neither of them told a joke that I did not laugh at. I've pretty much decided that I would always rather see a comedian than a music concert. I would rather laugh for two hours than get pushed around in a mosh pit and not be able to understand the words of the music anyway. Seth was hilarious and I was a little surprised that he was that good at the stand up thing. Of course, Demetri was great. I've heard some of his comedy cd's, but it can't match seeing him in person.




The next morning I got in my Altima and headed for one of my favorite cities in the world.....NASHVILLE TENNESSEE!! The weather in Nashville was BEAUTIFUL (compared with the awful weather in Searcy) and it was just great to be around the city. I met up with Mom and we went to my favorite restaurant in Nashville that I used to always go to Lucy with: Ken's Japanese Restaurant. Then we went shopping and then went to the movies and saw Across the Universe, which was amazing. I'm a big Beatles fan, and the whole movie is a musical full of Beatles songs. It's probably the best movie I've seen this year. It was fun, emotional, a little trippy, and just fantastic all around. Then we swung by the hotel to catch the last few innings of Game 3 of the World Series to watch the Sox hold on to win a fairly close game and take a 3-0 lead.

The next morning we headed over to downtown Nashville, found a parking spot, and made out war to.....LP FIELD!!!! I love walking to a Titans game. You can feel the excitement in the air, everyone has on their Titans jerseys, and there's even a sense of community as we band together to cheer on our guys. It's also great making the walk over the pedestrian bridge over the Cumberland River in between downtown and the stadium. I still think it's one of the coolest spots in all of sports.

The game was fantastic. The crowd seemed a little subdued at first, but we got into it more and more as the game went along. It was close the whole time, and our defense played incredible! I can't overstate this enough.........our defensive line put pressure on Daunte Culpepper EVERY SINGLE TIME HE WENT BACK FOR A PASS! I haven't seen a Titans D-line since Jevone Kearse and Kenny Holms were rushing quarterbacks back in 2000. They made Daunte Culpepper look like......well......Daunte Culpepper. Despite a rough day from VY, our defense and running game were able to pull out a tight 13-9 win. What a game!

Of course, we missed Lucy a lot, since we always out in Nashville with her. So we said the empty seat beside us was for her.

After the game, Mom and I went to another of our Nashville favorite's SATCO. Then we said goodbye and I made a quick trip over to Lipscomb to see one of my favorite people in the whole world, my fellow intern, April Easley!!

Now, I was trying to get home as fast as I could because it was looking like the Red Sox were going to clinch the series that night. My A.M. Radio was broken, so I couldn't get the game, so I just had to rely on phone calls from my friends updating on the score. As I was going through the middle of Arkansas I lost cell phone service, so I just had to wait and try to roll through the dreaded I-64.

Finally I made it back to Harding, swung into a parking spot, and sprinted up to my room. I made it in to watch Okie close things down in the 7th. Then I watched with delight as we got some insurance runs and as Papelbon closed the door in the ninth. Then Paps threw his red-hot fastball got the strikeout for the third out, made his insane-asylum crazy victory face as Varitek and the rest of the Red Sox piled onto the pitching mound. The 2007 Red Sox.....WORLD CHAMPIONS!! I called and left a message with Laura in Brazil to celebrate and sat there in delighted exhaustion watching the team celebrate. I didn't run around the dorm this time. I was just too tired from the weekend. But this was even better, I just got to enjoy it with a huge grin on my face and relax in my joy.

Wow! So, pretty much this week I've been recovering from the exhausting weekend and still enjoying all the good times I had. Times like these are really special, and it doesn't get much better than weekends like this. I just thank God for everything and everyone I got to enjoy it with, especially Mom. Phew....can this semester get any better?