Oh What a Night!

(Warning, this is very long! It was quite the night and I wanted to get it all written down!:)

Yesterday we had the chance to go to Provo for the USU vs BYU game. My cousin and his wife and little boy live there and my aunt and uncle from Vegas were coming for the weekend and got us all tickets. We knew we would be cutting it close to get there by seven but we we headed out anyways. My family left earlier in the day to run some errands but Eric and I left later because we had to work. So we got in our car at 3:30 and after a couple quick stops, we were on the road by 4. We figured it would take us about 2 1/2 hours, maybe a little longer depending on traffic. HA!

At least we had pretty views while we were driving. These clouds looked so cool. The pic didn't really turn out that great. So let's see, on with the night! We made it to about Kaysville and that is when the trouble started. We basically didn't go above 30 mph from Kaysville to the BYU Stadium and I am NOT exageratting!! We sat in silence much of the way because we were both so irritated and frustrated. ha ha. I could not beleive it!! So from the time we left our house, until the time we got to our seats (an hour late!) it was a 4 1/2 hour trip! And the fun doesn't stop there!

Since it was basically half time when we got there, here are some pics of the marching band. I thought the different arrangements they did were pretty cool. This one is a couger head if you can't tell.

We were quite far up, it was a decent hike for me to get up ALL those stairs. My heart was racing and my legs were burning. ha ha. It was good for me I am sure. We were pretty much surrounded by BYU fans. I had a bright pink sweatshirt with a BIG BLUE A on the front of it. Good thing no one threw anything at me. I was the only A in a sea of Y's. ha ha.

Me and my sis Courtney.

Court, me, Eric. Poor Eric didn't get to watch too much of the game. He left to go buy some peanuts and I had him buy a program for a guy at work that wanted one. Well I guess he had to walk clear around the stadium (Almost) to find one. He was gone a long time and missed some scoring. And since we were an hour late to start with, he didn't get to watch much. Sorry babe!

Me and my honey pie! We are much happier here then in the car. Good thing no one was taking pics of us driving down! ha ha.

The Aggies are SO close to scoring!

Can they pull it off?????

Nope! Not this time. Even though I pretty much knew BYU would win, I thought it would have been awesome if the Aggies could have won. At least they are improving!! :) the final score was 35-17 I believe.

We decided to leave a few minutes before the game was over so that we would not have a hard time getting out. Well half of our group decided to stay. Bad idea. Eric was rushing me along to "hurry up" to the car. Well that is easier said then done. I really needed a bathroom and walking fast was not helping! TMI? Sorry. My little legs were going as fast as they could, I was holding my stomach and trying to hurry. ha. Hurrying turned out to do us no good. We didn't have too hard of a time getting on the freeway, but we were all meeting at Ihop in American Fork. we got there at 10:45 pm and my cousins were already there. We sat down and waited for the rest of our group.

And waited and waited and waited. We had good company but still! The rest of our group showed up about 11:45!! An hour later! We SO should have just ordered and ate without them but we were too nice. So we finally all ordered and our waiter started bringing out ALL of the food. We were a big group so it was a little complicated I guess. He just started dropping plates of food in front of everyone and you would look at it trying to remember what you ordered and this was NOT it! He set a plate of food in front of Eric and it was similar to what Eric ordered so he started eating the bacon. Well I looked at it and said, "that's not yours". Oops, so he set the bacon down, the waiter picked up the plate to give it to the right person and Eric said "Well I already took a bite of that bacon" so instead of leaving it, throwing it, letting Eric pick it up, ANYTHING, what do you think the waiter did? He picked it up with his bare hand and started to hand it to Eric! We all kind of froze and just looked at him in disbelief. I think that is when he realized he shouldn't have touched the food. Poor guy!

After he left to get the next round of plates, I lost it. I was exhausted and just burts into tears and laughter thinking about the bacon. This made my mom and sister do the same. If you don't know us girls, we do that alot. Usually it is my mom and sis that are "cry laughing" but I was the worst one last night! I finally regained composure and he came back with more food. He dropped a plate in front of me and it was NOT what I had ordered. I did my best to hold it in but that made it worse when the laughter and tears exploded out! I quickly covered my face and apparently my uncle said "What 's wrong with Brooke? What did someone say? You don't say offensive things to a pregnant woman! Is she okay? Is she sick?" ha ha. Or at least all those things were running through his mind. My dad explained to him that nothing was wrong and I was, in fact, laughing. I think our table was a little embarrased by all the shinanigans. My sister got the wrong food as well. People had part of the right order but then part of someone else's.......my mom didn't even have an order......ha ha ha. What a mess!!

We finally got everything squared away enough. We pretty much didn't care at that point and were just glad to have food, no matter what it was! My family just has bad luck with Ihop. We refuse to go to the one in Logan for this reason. Apparently it is not just our local one.

So we finished eating and it was 1:15 am!! Yes we had been at Ihop for 2 1/2 hours! Eric and I quickly went to the car and started towards home. Not long after that our gas light came on. The last thing we needed to add to the night was to run out of gas on the freeway at 1:30 in the morning! I don't know what it was, but the area of the freeway we were on, had NO gas stations. I think we made it to Bountiful area and exited and got some gas. Eric had been yawning and rubbing his face to stay awake so I told him I would switch for a bit so he could fall asleep.

He zonked out and I did my best to last as long as I could. I was getting VERY drowsy and started to do a couple LONG blinks. I decided this was no good and woke Eric up to at least talk to me. He had slept for about 1/2 an hour and said he was good to go. So we pulled of the Exit by Smith and Edwards and made the switch again. After Eric assured me he was wide awake, it was my turn to sleep. Oh it was nice!! Needless to say, we pulled in our driveway at 3:30 am!!
OH WHAT A NIGHT!!!

We went right in and straight to sleep! And guess what time we got up? 11:45 am! We totally didn not mean to but I guess we were a little tired!!

If you were to ask me if driving 4 hours oneway to get to the game was worth it. I would probably say no. But if you ask me if driving 4 hours for the memories we got last night were worth it, I would say YES! It was great to see our family and spend time together. And since we made it home safely, all is well! Thanks Tribett's!!!