Elon trip
Spent Saturday afternoon cruising down (in our BRAND spankin' new car) to visit my gorgeous little brother at Elon University in NC.
What a blast!! We got there around 5 and took Matt and his two roommates, Fielden and Timmy out to dinner. They are THE nicest group of college guys I've ever met....sincere and kind and funny as hell. We spent the dinner hour telling funny stories about Matt and hearing about his exploits this semester. The kid always finds a way to get into trouble - and then always finds a way out of it. Love him.
After dinner we went to the Elon vs. Georgia South baseball game. It was a big deal for Elon to be playing this team (who is very good) in the series. Whoever wins the series advances on to the next round...and so on. So Elon had lost their first game to GS - if they didn't win the game we went to, they were done for the season. Elon was down two runs when we showed up. There were hundreds of students there (which, for a school of under 5,000 kids is impressive) and everyone was drinking and having a good time.
Matt and his friends go to Facebook.com and look up the opposing left fielder and all of the pitchers. They find out all sorts of information - mother's names, girlfriend's names, interests, activities, favorite movies, etc. And then, when the game starts, they heckle the HELL out of the left fielder and the bull pen with all of the stuff they learned about them. It's hilarious, actually. It starts out pretty tame but as the beer flows, the heckling gets pretty raunchy. I was laughing my ass off the whole time!
After the game, we went back to the field right outside Matt's house and I watched them play a game they invented called "Smashball." It's kind of like homerun derby, only with lots of alcohol and yelling and special rules. I was 100% sober and it took me all night to figure out the rules (I swear they changed them when it was convenient...). It was so fun to be surrounded by college kids (mostly guys) full of piss and vinegar.
I retired early (let's remember that I'm 7 months pregnant...so i didn't want to be there when people started getting sloppy with the bats and/or balls or started falling down.) and went to bed.
Sunday morning we took Matt out to breakfast - I couldn't believe he got up at 8:30!! Then we got on the road by 10.
All in all, it was a fantastic visit. Here are some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13411558@N00/sets/72057594122076207/show/
What a blast!! We got there around 5 and took Matt and his two roommates, Fielden and Timmy out to dinner. They are THE nicest group of college guys I've ever met....sincere and kind and funny as hell. We spent the dinner hour telling funny stories about Matt and hearing about his exploits this semester. The kid always finds a way to get into trouble - and then always finds a way out of it. Love him.
After dinner we went to the Elon vs. Georgia South baseball game. It was a big deal for Elon to be playing this team (who is very good) in the series. Whoever wins the series advances on to the next round...and so on. So Elon had lost their first game to GS - if they didn't win the game we went to, they were done for the season. Elon was down two runs when we showed up. There were hundreds of students there (which, for a school of under 5,000 kids is impressive) and everyone was drinking and having a good time.
Matt and his friends go to Facebook.com and look up the opposing left fielder and all of the pitchers. They find out all sorts of information - mother's names, girlfriend's names, interests, activities, favorite movies, etc. And then, when the game starts, they heckle the HELL out of the left fielder and the bull pen with all of the stuff they learned about them. It's hilarious, actually. It starts out pretty tame but as the beer flows, the heckling gets pretty raunchy. I was laughing my ass off the whole time!
After the game, we went back to the field right outside Matt's house and I watched them play a game they invented called "Smashball." It's kind of like homerun derby, only with lots of alcohol and yelling and special rules. I was 100% sober and it took me all night to figure out the rules (I swear they changed them when it was convenient...). It was so fun to be surrounded by college kids (mostly guys) full of piss and vinegar.
I retired early (let's remember that I'm 7 months pregnant...so i didn't want to be there when people started getting sloppy with the bats and/or balls or started falling down.) and went to bed.
Sunday morning we took Matt out to breakfast - I couldn't believe he got up at 8:30!! Then we got on the road by 10.
All in all, it was a fantastic visit. Here are some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13411558@N00/sets/72057594122076207/show/
posted by GirlRy at 8:19 AM
1 Comments:
Elon is my DREAM college. And your brother is a cutie ;p My name's Erin and I saw your profile through a random search. Hopefully you can check out mine and we can get to know each other. Does your brother like Elon? <3 <3 Erin
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