Here are some things that I learned from the game last night:
1. If I want to take pictures at the game, it’s important to charge my camera battery prior to leaving the house. Otherwise, I will be forced to take pictures with my cell phone, only to learn upon arriving home that I have no idea how to upload the aforementioned pictures and can’t find my copy of Cell Phones for Dummies.
2. My sister will not listen to me when I tell her to wear reasonably comfortable shoes because it’ll be a long walk from the parking lot to the dome. She’ll try to justify wearing the shoes because she walked around her house in them for 5 minutes before she left and they didn’t hurt at all.
For the record, walking around the house isn’t quite the same as a 45 minute hike consisting of more flights of stairs than I can bear to think about right now.
3. When she gets blisters on her feet from her non-practical, but very cute, shoes, she will be totally prepared because she carries band-aids in her purse for such an event.
How are we related? It’s a good day if I can find a ballpoint pen in my purse, much less first aid equipment.
If I could get my cell phone to upload pictures I could show y’all a picture of her cute shoes with the band-aids covering the blisters. I had to take several because she was worried that the first couple of photos made her feet look fat, and heaven knows, you don’t want the internet talking about your fat feet.
4. The woman in front of us in the t-shirt line will feel that it is important to know the fabric consistency of every single t-shirt for sale and then proceed to do all of her Christmas shopping for the next ten years while checking things off her list.
Serenity now.
5. When I called the Alamodome ticket office and they told me the tickets I was about to buy were on the upper level, they weren’t lying. There are airplanes all over America tonight that weren’t reaching that kind of altitude. I am not kidding when I say we were sitting in the very top row of the very top level of the Alamodome. I have never climbed so many stairs in my life.
We were so high up that I needed binoculars to watch the game on the big screen.
6. In spite of channeling Boomama and screaming “COME ON NOW, SON!” for the better part of two hours, my team still lost.
7. Memphis Tiger fans are pretty nice people, especially the ones sitting next to some crazy lady who jumped up and down while screaming “COME ON NOW, SON!” throughout the entire game.
8. It’s best to not eat a dinner comprised of processed cheese in the form of Deluxe Nachos and processed meat in the form of a hot dog, when 20 minutes later you’ll be watching a game come down to the last second.
9. Bloggy friends like Shalee will call me after the game to offer their condolences and maybe taunt me just a little bit, but it’s all in love.
10. I couldn’t be more proud of the Texas A&M basketball team. This is a team that went 0-16 in conference just three years ago and ended up in the Sweet 16 this year. They are the stuff dreams are made of and I know this is just the beginning of an incredible era for Aggie basketball.
We’ll see y’all at the Final Four next year.