The Buckeyes did it, now it's the TIGERS turn!

Last weekend Harry and I held an Ohio State vs. Michigan party. We had a lot of guests, 12 to be exact, a lot of fun... and best of all, the Buckeyes won! Take that Michigan! Tomorrow, the Clemson Tigers will do battle with our biggest rival... the gamecocks (yuck). Harry and I can't wait to watch the Tigers smack the stuffing out of the gamecocks.

Harry's cousin, Russ, cheering on the Buckeyes... he's not even from Ohio!

My friends Megan and Joanne sit with Harry before the game... Megan's dad went to OSU and Joanne graduated from Ohio State.

Tomorrow, noon, remember to cheer on the TIGERS... Harry and I will be doing it here!

Blue Man Group

On Friday Harry, his cousin Russ, and I went to see Blue Man Group at the Charlotte Bobcat Arena. I really didn't know that much about Blue Man Group, I really had only seen them in commercials and of course Tobias on Arrested Development wanted to be a part of the group.

We sat all the way at the top of the arena, literally, we were in the last row. However, our seats were right in the center of the arena and we could see everything. I will have to say that it was GREAT performance. The theme of the event was how to be a superstar and Fred Armisen (from Saturday Night Live) was playing the roll of Ron Popeil's (inventor of the Showtime Rotisserie) brother selling a "How to Be A Superstar" DVD and the Blue Man Group was following instructions of the DVD. I would recommend Blue Man Group to anybody, they were great!

Shopping With the Girls

Before I start, this is a Meredith post. Harry thinks this topic is too girly so I want to begin by saying this was written by me.

Last weekend I went shopping with my friends Megan and Joanne. We went to lunch at Thai Lanna (yummy) and then headed to Concord Mills for some outlet shopping. One thing I love to do while shopping is try on hideous clothes. Last weekend was no disappointment. Check out the fugly clothes and shoes we found.

We started at TJ Maxx where I found this little number. The shirt (and I use the term shirt loosely) only cost $5.00. What a bargain for half a shirt, or maybe it's only a quarter of a shirt since the back is see-through.

Next we were off to Burlington Coat Factory, because they are more than great coats, to try on shoes.

Megan tried on the camouflage wedges and I tried on the leopard print wedges. Can you believe they make shoes this ugly? Don't worry Martha and Karen, I did get you both the camo wedges.

Next Joanne tried on the red satin cabaret inspired heals in an attempt to bring sexy back. I think it worked.

Megan found this treasure, a green snake skin leather sling back with netting (you know, to keep your feet cool). How great! Stylish and practical!

Last, but certainly not least, I found these fabulous gold clogs. I'd give them a gold medal for style, but they are so gold do I really need to?

Fight Tigers!

No seriously, fight! Last weekend Martha, Ed, Harry, and I headed to Clemson to watch the Tigers play. This is the second time this year that Harry and I have been to a Clemson game, but this was Martha and Ed's first in a long time. In fact, they hadn't been back to Clemson in about 3 years. Madison didn't get to make the trip, but of course L.C. did.

We were really worried about the traffic since it was a 12:00 game, but between the 4 of us we knew enough short-cuts and the best places to park that we got their with relatively little hassle. We parked in front of (what Harry called) the photography staple, the bridge in front of the Strom Thurman Center.


Here are Martha and Ed in front of the bridge.


Harry and I enjoying some tailgating.

One thing we noticed this year that we hadn't seen previously at Clemson games were crazy religious people. There were a lot of signs about the Devil coming, the end of days, and even telling us not to go to church but to worship Jesus (????).



And here... the most exciting 15 seconds in college football!


RUNNING DOWN THE HILL!

As you can see, our seats were pretty far up, but they were actually pretty good. We could see all of the action and we got just enough sun to keep us warm. The only problem at the game was apparently row R in our section was the BEST row in Death Valley because we were crammed in there! Some dumb witch decided that our row was better than the row in front of us with all the extra room. She was also TONS of fun yelling sweet comments at the players, coaches and refs. Despite our fun friend, we had a really great time.


Tiger Band spells out Clemson.

After the game we went downtown for some shopping and stopped in at Keith Street for some dinner (yummy!). Oh how we miss Clemson.

On the way back to the car we stopped by to take a beautiful picture of Tillman hall at sunset.



And Edward visited with some of the local wildlife. (Edward is the one on the right, an opossum is on the left.)