thanksgiving week

My thanksgiving week was actually a whole nine days long. and it was amazing. I went to huntsville the first weekend to hang out with my ultimate friends and watch everyone else play ultimate... starting to be my least favorite thing to do EVER. I then headed home by way of small town Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, never once setting a foot (or a tire as the case may be) on an interstate from the time we got to Chattanooga saturday morning, from huntsville to my parents house, and then my parents house to about 30miles north of Birmingham the following weekend. it was FANTASTIC. While at home, I procrastinated on all of my school work (that is now coming back to bite me in the ass), went to the eye doctor, went to the dentist- where i had to get a filling.... booo- and generally just watched TV, napped, and baked for four fabulous days. Thanksgiving day was quite low key, just the immediate family, and too much food- it was SOOO good!
Friday, I headed to auburn for the Iron Bowl. First off, it took me 7 HOURS to get there- seven.... Auburn is SO far from Dyersburg. It is slighly ridiculous. When i got to Manhands's, J-vo and his friend spike were already there, and had been drinking for a few hours already. It was only 5:30ish- so I had some catching up to do. Needless to say- I caught up fairly quickly. We played drinking games at Amy's for a while, then headed to "the Castle" with Kim and Kyle and a few others, then went to Buffalo's downtown where we met up with Annie and Robert and Annie's fam, Blaire, Wes, J-Vo, Town, Bob, Culver, Sexton, Chelsea.... there are too many to name. After that we headed to Sexton's place, where people were playing beer pong, then Amy, Kim and I went to Jimmy John's to finish off the night, where amy proceeded to talk to every sketchy person in the place-- you think she would have learned by now, but apparently not.
Saturday was a day of tailgating... ALL DAY. No, seriously- all day. The game wasn't until 7, so it was an all day affair. The highlight of the whole day for me was that Tennessee won their game against Kentucky after 4 overtimes! It was awesome! Now TN gets to go to the SEC Championship this weekend, and the Cats lost (which was awesome for me since Culver is a UK fan... hehe). I did get to go the the Iron Bowl game, and my ticket was... the second to last row from the top- and it was cold. COLD at the game. But Auburn won, and it was awesome. at the end of the game, one of the football players started directing the band with the band director- it was hilarious. it was super fun! the rest of the night was fairly low key, with me sleeping for a good 30 minutes on amy's floor while about 8 other people watched highlights from the game and other's continued to pour in from the game. Overall- good nine days. now all i have to do is get through the next two weeks without a serious mental breakdown, and life will be good.