So we did not beat Sparty after all

Pictures from yesterday will be coming later. Here's the rundown:

I woke up on my own at 5:30 in the morning; I must have been excited. I watched an episode of the daily show, and then at 6:30ish I went down to Drew and Charles's room to make sure they were up. Packy joined us at 6:45, and at 7 we went across to fill up the cooler with ice in Badin. By 7:30 we were on the road.

We took a slightly longer way up to avoid the toll road. After getting off US-31 to get onto I-94, we saw an "American Waffle House" sign and stopped there for breakfast. It was delicious. I had a pecan and banana waffle, everyone else filled up on some good hearty stuff, and we went off.

We arrived in East Lansing at 11. There was no good parking available, and we were totally bummed. For some reason, one of the biggest parking lots for the game is alcohol free, which is pretty unAmerican. This isn't BYU, dammit! Anyways, we parked about 15 minutes from the stadium in the furthest public lot. At least we were allowed to drink. And drink we did. We lounged, threw the football, and drank American beers for a few hours. I broke off and met up with Patrick and Colin at around 2. Patrick was with his girlfriend and Keegan (I think?), a friend from Marshall. We had a pretty good time going into the stadium and whatnot, and surprisingly I didn't take all that much harassment from Sparty fans, which made life a lot better.

The game? Not so good. We lost 23-7, though there wasn't one aspect of the game where they looked really bad. It was entertaining, and we were having a good time all around. Packy and I were next to each other in the corner of the end zone, and Chad, Durst, Gorsche, and many others were around as well. Good times, good times.

We took off with about 2 minutes left in the game. I had entertained some thoughts of staying in East Lansing for the night earlier this week, but I wasn't really in the mood after the game. We managed to get out and on to the highway really quickly, which was great. The drive home was painless as well. We took a nice detour through Kalamazoo for food, and we ended up getting a little confused and drove all through town. A good life experience was had, I suppose. We got back in time for the end of the LSU-Auburn game and SNL. SNL was lame. A bad day for entertainment, I suppose, but a good day in general. Away games are fun. That made a UNC roadtrip much more likely.