fresno trip

on black friday we made the trip to fresno... stopping at an outlet mall or two on the way. finally i have started on my christmas shopping! (not to mention the cute new clothes i got for work!) we stayed at a crappy motel in a crappy part of town (where's trip advisor when you need it???) but still had a great time. we got to see the end of the LSU Arkansas game - what a game! there was a nice park right by our lodgings so on friday night we went to dinner at tahoe joes (my salad was great, jeremy hated his burger... it was just patties from the store. not the original tahoe joe burger that they claimed) and then walked around the park for about an hour. saturday morning we woke up and watched the vh1 top20 video countdown like alwaysthen went for another walk around the park. it was similar to gage park - there was a carousel, zoo, playgrounds, picnic areas, etc. we saw a rabbit on friday night and on saturday morning, on friday i got close enough to almost touch him (her?) but for those of you who know my track record with rabbits (BABE) i was scared he (she?) would eat my clothes and scratch me. we went back to our hotel and showered and went to find food (the continental "breakfast" at our hotel sucked royally). fresno is called the armpit of california, and with good reason. there were no good places to eat that were open (11 am on a game day. seriously people.) so we just went into the stadium.

let me rephrase that. we tried to find a place to park. all of the signs on the street pointed to the lots near the stadium where people had to have season passes to park. so we drove around for like 30 minutes before a bulldogs fan finally deigned to speak to us and let us know where the other parking lots where. we had a small walk through campus - cal state fresno is actually a pretty nice campus - and then the real trouble began.

<> whats that smell? ooh k-state fans... (from a dad to his small son)

go jayhawks! jawhawks are awesome! (a bunch of drunk frat guys)

you arent in kansas anymore pansies! (real original, guys)

we walked around the stadium three times, well it felt like three times but was prolly more like 9/10 of the way (we started walking in definitely the wrong direction) to find will call, stood in line, got our tickets, stood in line, went into the stadium, stood in line while the players ran onto the field, and then made our way back around the stadium to our seats. we were sitting in a small section of wildcats mostly from northern california and there was another whole section of purple. the guys sitting behind us were really obnoxious but calmed down around halftime (more like drank himself into a stupor). he was yelling boo jayhawks the entire first quarter until willie came onto the field for quartertime? cheering and the girl with him was like "thats not a bird you idiot!" it was prolly the highlight of the game for me. one fresno state fan sitting near us was pretty cool and we traded info about our players and colleges. why cant everyone be more like that? i mean, i love k-state just as much if not more that the next guy, but the only person i ever ridicule for being on the opposing team is anna, but thats because i know her. i would never say nasty things to perfect strangers. well, thats not entirely true prolly... but in the context of good sportsmanship i think everyone should cheer on their respective teams and the only booing should be directed towards the referees. but thats just me.

we lost, and it was a long drive back to la. we tried to find a station on the radio playing the ku-missouri game but failed miserably. we did get to watch the final quarter when we got home though. this post prolly sounds really negative but we had a great time. man i miss college football gamedays in manhattan! and we figured out one place we will never move to. fresno.