Auburn vs UT game

This past Saturday, we went to the Auburn / UT game in Knoxville. We were able to get tickets from Matthew's Dad and we took Christian & Rebecca with us. Julianna had her first official "sleep over" at a friends - they had a blast, too.

The game was at 7:45 pm EST so it was late for us. We headed out of Nashville around noon and made it to Knoxville in decent time, although there was some Dukes of Hazzards car show or something because there were major slow downs on I-40 because we passed Rosco's Sheriff's car, Cooter's Tow Truck, Daisy's jeep and about 15 different General Lee cars!!!

We parked about 2 miles away from the stadium and got there in time to see the Vol Walk from a distance. I believe that's what they call it when the coaches and players walk down the road and into the stadium. Then we got to see the band "The Pride of the South Lands" come down the road and perform Rocky Top. There's a video of that at the bottom. I must say they are impressive.

We got into the stadium pretty early but enjoyed just looking around and talking. It was fun to see the stadium fill up. There were quite a few Auburn fans there and they were pretty close to us, so that was fun. The kids had a great time and enjoyed it.

It was about 3:30am our time when we got home and man, we were tired, but it was worth it. Here are some pictures. They are from a phone since we didn't want to lug our big camera in the stadium, but I think they turned out pretty well.

When we first arrived at the stadium. Rebecca said, "There sure aren't many people here!" :-)

The band before the game

Auburn running out on the field

Christian, Rebecca and me

The boys

The Girls..... Oh, by the way, notice Rebecca - she's wearing her contacts. Doesn't she look pretty!!!!

The kids watching the UT band