Notre Dame Game

October 7, 2006

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It's fall and that can only mean one thing... time for the annual family excursion to Notre Dame for a football game. This year it was Brad, Elaine, Judi, Leslie and Pam. It was even more special this year because Elaine is actually in the Chemical Engineering PhD program at ND. We felt so legit to be there with an actual student. And we felt much less poor after staking claims on her floor for the weekend as opposed to paying an arm and a leg for a crappy hotel room.

Brad worked some eBay magic and scored us tickets ahead of time. And despite coming from many different directions, we all managed to gather in the same place at the same time. On game day, we did the traditional activities: breakfast at Bob Evans, pictures in front of Touchdown Jesus and Number 1 Moses, watching the players walk from church to the stadium, listening to the band play on the steps in the quad, monitoring each others bathroom habits, remembering stories about Gramps and cracking endless jokes.

It was an amazingly gorgeous fall day and it was just a pleasure to be outside and in each other's company. To add to the great day, Notre Dame beat Stanford 31-10. Go ND!

PhD girl