We've become THOSE fans....

Yes, Jason and I took our picture with the National Championship trophy. Yes, we made fun of the Bama fans last year for doing the same thing. Before you begin to laugh or think we drove 3 hours to Bham just to get this picture made....there is a good story behind it.....see below...

Proud AU fans!!

The story begins on Sunday.....Since we live so close to Starkville we decided to go watch the AU/State bb game on Sunday afternoon. So of course we dressed in our orange and blue and headed up HWY 12. Unfortunatley AU got beat very badly, but we still had a nice time. We also needed to get our dog, who we had not seen in over a week. Jason's parents kept him Sat-Th and then my parents took over duties when they got home from the game. Since we both were off on Monday and already in Starkville, we decided to drive to BHAM after the game, stay with our friends Sunday night and meet my parents on Monday to get the dog and then head back to MS.


So as we are driving to Bham Sunday after the game, we call our friends and decided to meet at MOE's for dinner around 6:00 (the one by HWY 119/Greystone). I was joking with Jason since we were still in our AU attire that everyone is going to think that we are the PROUD AU fans that can't bare to quit wearing orange and blue since the big win. We decided who cares, I left my orange scarf on and we venture to Moe's to meet our friends.


As we're pulling in the parking lot we see this mass crowd of AU fans...I mean they were EVERYWHERE!! Which was a nice change since no one over here really cares that AU just won a national title. Well, come to find out the mass crowd is in line at ACADEMY SPORTS (beside MOE'S) b/c the National Championship Trophy is being shown from 6-8 and you can get a free picture made. We had a good laugh, met our friends for dinner and proceed to watch all the AU fans come into Moe's after getting their picture made.


Of course, I told Jason, "NO we are NOT standing in line", but as we are finishing dinner it is getting closer to 8 and the line was pretty short. We thought we might as well, it was FATE (haha) that we just happened to end up at the same place and not even know the trophy would be there. So, yes that is the story of how we ended up with that picture. What is even better is that we have AU MS license plates on our cars. So people that saw us drive off probably thought...what dedicated AU fans....they drove all the way from MS for this picture. So, now we can say we saw the trophy and have a picture to prove it!! I apologize to all BAMA fans for every making fun of you last year :)

**on a side note we had a lovely visit w/ Jason & Lesley and their girls and great lunch w/ Mom & Dad and made it backs safely to MS :)