tickets? who needs 'em?

-I started this post a while ago and just now got it all down. I'm sure I forgot minor details I was trying really hard to remember but either way, I'm glad I have this all down.-

I love my ducks!

Our flight down to Arizona was fun and full of Duck fans, Jer started the Go Ducks cheer that we do in Autzen and a guy at the front of the plane stood up and directed the cheer, slightly unnecessary but it added to the excitement. And then when we landed someone played the fight song on their phone and we all clapped and cheered. You could feel the tension/excitement in the air.

We hit up In-N-Out on our way to Jammi's and crashed.

Waking up Sunday was delightful we enjoyed the uninterrupted nights sleep even though we went to bed late. As we drove to church in the sunshine we totally felt like we were on vacation.

Don't palm tree's just scream vacation to you? They do me!

And we got excited seeing all the Duck fans flying their flags on their cars, as well as Auburn.

They knew we were here!

After church at Open Door Fellowship(where John Lynch an author of TrueFaced go and he will be the speaker at Men's Round-Up this year) we enjoyed some delicious sandwiches and this sign they had in their shop was really funny to me.

Off we went to Scottsdale to meet up with Tammi, Cody, Aunt Paula and Steph for the pep rally. While we were waiting in line to get in we ran into Matt and Amy Augee...such a small world! There were so many people that showed up for the rally! They had to go up on the parking structure across the street to be able to see.There were performances from Sebastian Bach, and Supwitchagirl, appearances from Ahmad Rashad, Peter Jacobson, and Joey Harrington he said that he would trade all 8 years in the NFL for just one more game at Autzen! And of course there was Chip Kelly. Chip said a few classic chipisms, 'if you believe in karma you're playing in the Tostita bowl and your coaches name is Chip' 'reduckulous' and right when he walked off stage he said 'and I'm not giving any refunds'.


Sunny and beautiful and the buzz was in the air! Everyone was getting pretty antsy for it to just be game time already!
Game Day! Stephanie was wonderful and dropped us off by 11 on game day she only lives about 10 min away so that was a pretty sweet setup! We walked around, scoped out the ticket scalping area, and pretty much just got the lay of the land. Got some coffee and relaxed for a bit before going back by the scalping area some more.

You see the screen over my left shoulder with the plane on it? That is where the showed the game later and we also made it on the screen a couple times that morning!

OOOOOOOOO

The whole area was really nice, there were restaurants, fountains, sun, and lots of fans. They had a restaurant that was only for Auburn fans and one for only Oregon as well. Everything else was fair game. Except for the center of the courtyard, you had to pay twenty bucks to get in there. Hey look, there we are on the screen again! Needless to say, we enjoyed ourselves.

The last time we went by the scalping corner I was floored by how many people were there! And I witnessed an Auburn fan cough up 3800 cash for two tickets and hour before the game! That's the thing, there were tickets, it just depends on how much you wanted to spend. And we were not willing to spend that much at all!
We had a great time cheering on our Ducks. We tried our hardest to get tickets to the game but even at halftime they were asking for 1500 a piece! That's way more than Jer and I set for our limit for both tickets combined! So we cozied up at Margaritaville and watched it on the big screen just down the street from the stadium. We were surrounded by some excited but very kind Auburn fans. Obviously the outcome wasn't what we were hoping for but it was a great trip and like Jer said "we'll be back".