Game Day in Auburn

I got to go back to Auburn last weekend for the game, but this time Ryan, the girls, and Lauren got to come too.  We went down Friday night and stayed in a hotel in Auburn, so we wouldn't have to wake up so early considering is was an 11:20 start time.  We shouldn't have worried too much though because Bailey was up at 6:00.  We ate breakfast at the hotel and then went downtown to see the sights and take some pictures.

Our hotel had decorated the lobby with toilet paper rolls wrapped up with Auburn quotes on them.  It was so cute and this was our quote which pretty much sums up most people's experience at Auburn (except most of us didn't play football there.)

Going back to Samford Hall is always special to us since that is where Ryan and I got engaged.  It was fun to tell the girls the story.

Ryan modeled one of Gene Chizik's favorite looks, the pleather jacket with AU on it, at Tiger Rags.

We made it to our seats, which were high the corner of the lower level, and we were right under where they release, Spirit, our Eagle that soars around the field in the pregame celebration.  You may have heard that Spirit had a little bit of a rough flight during this game.  His flight was unusually long, which included him hitting the glass of the box seats and flying very low over some fans' heads.  The girls, of course, loved the long flight.  (The second picture is right before Spirit hit the glass.)

The pregame was definitely the girls favorite part with the band, the Eagle, and the cheering.

The game was very hot and towards half time, the girls got very whiny and a little grumpy about the heat, so we spent most of the 3rd quarter under the stadium where there was a great breeze and some fans blowing.  Ryan had a radio so we listened to the game.  Once the 4th quarter started we headed back to our seats for the rest of the game, and thankfully Auburn pulled out the win.

We then headed to Toomer's Corner to throw a little toilet paper on our dying trees.  The trees look so pitiful and I think they will definitely die at some point so we wanted to let the girls play at Toomer's while you still can.

It was a great day, and overall, the girls had fun, but Emma Catherine did say that she didn't want to go to anymore hot games in the daytime.