Saturday began at 8:30 when I woke up for the first time. Then again when I woke up at 10:10am. And again when I woke up at 11:25, and finally officially kicked off when I crawled out of bed at about 12:35.
I began the day with a 2.1 mile run which I paced in at 7:01 a mile. I shoot for under 7 and this was close, I blame the 90+ degree weather. After the run I showered and watched some HIMYM and got my stuff ready for the rest of the weekend. Stuart had left for Columbus the night prior so I had the place to myself. This of course translates to me wearing minimal clothing while doing everything I was doing. Let’s be honest for a second. Can we be honest for a second? If we are really being honest here, I will tell you that even when Stuart is around, I don’t wear a lot of clothes in the apartment, especially when it is crazy hot out. But as usual, I digress.
I left the apartment around 2:15 and headed to Journey where I was meeting up with Lauren, Mitch, and Michael. Michael was late, and so we didn’t get on the road until around 3:20.
The drive up was easy and we picked up Tom from his house to take him to the game. We made a quick stop at Target so I could buy a gold watch, which I did for $15. A great buy.
The storms had hit Columbus pretty hard the night before and there wasn’t power at the stadium until about 5pm. We arrived to the tailgate around 6pm and found out the game had been pushed back to 9pm. This was fine by us and we proceeded to tailgate like professionals. Mark (one of the Crew faithful) was grilling up burgers and dogs which tasted amazing as always. Wes and Savannah showed up a little later, followed by Stuart, JayPaul, Christy, Breanna and her friends We all hung out until about 8:15 at which time we headed into the game.
Game recap: We beat RSL (10 game winners from the West division) 2-0 and we went nuts. Both goals were scored in the first half, meaning they took place on the other end of the field. We still went nuts. Goal scoring celebrations have become my favorite thing over the years. This may sound ridiculous or obvious, but it’s true. The place literally erupts. This was the first game with the smoke machines and they really added a lot. As the game took place the weekend before the 4th of July, our section (the best section in the Nordecke) took it upon ourselves to lead everyone is multiple singings of “America the Beautiful” and one of “God Bless the USA”. This may be a defining moment in my patriotic life. There was so much patriotism in the air, any terrorist in a 100 mile radius would have dropped dead instantly. The win was followed by all the players coming over and high fiving us. I even kissed Eric Gehrig on the forehead. (he later confirmed this by acknowledging it on twitter). The game wasn’t over until around 11, we headed to 4th St where the power was still out. Then started our quest for food. I wanted chicken so we (Michael, Mitch, Tom, Breanna and her friend Erica) walked to Cains only to find out that it was closed. We then “settled” for Waffle House where I annihilated an All Star Special.
The night came to a close as Mitch and I fell asleep on Brett’s bed. It made me miss Brett even more than the lack of him at the earlier activities. Brett, this is for you.
Sunday I woke up at 6:45 am, showered and drove back to Cincy where I played keys for the morning service at Journey.
After church I headed over to the parent’s house where pops made BLT’s and we watched the Euro Cup Final between Spain and Italy. Spain cranked out 4 goals and defeated the Italians 4-0. It was a good cap to an amazing Euro tournament.
I think after this I took a nap, I don’t really remember. Shucks. I headed back down to my place in the evening and Caitlin and Stuart watched True Blood. I watched with them and Evan. I will go on record to say I thought it was really dumb. This will not come to a surprise to these two as I verbalized it to both of them that night and later as well. Psh.
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