You Never Know Who You'll Run Into...

Man, oh man…I gotta tell you, if you didn’t make it to the tailgate, and you can't figure it out just by these pictures, you missed some seriously Good Times! Trey, Tommy, Peggy (and her buffet of fabulous food!), along with several of their friends all made the trip to tailgate with us Gurus...Uncle John and two of his boys (Matt and Tim) made it, as well...But, most importantly...
We are now in possession of a fabulous new Virginia Tech pinwheel tent (alternating glorious maroon and orange), complete with side panels for bad weather days - boo-yah!

Why do I tell you this, you ask? Well, the tent provided lots of entertainment.

I know, this sounds like a crazy statement, but just let me elaborate. See, I’ve never really watched someone else put up one of these things before…and of course, neither had Rachael or April…so, we were kind of at a loss once we got the tent mostly up. We couldn’t quite figure out how to pop the canopy bars into place…first we thought it was just going to lock in when we spread the tent out all the way.

Well. That didn’t happen. Then we thought we could stand on tip toe and push them into place (but none of us are very tall), so that was a FAIL.

Then, we thought, hey, let’s lower the tent and push the bars in place while it’s lowered…(I know, the level of genius in action here is absolutely astounding, but bear with us, lol)...but that still didn’t work. Of course, all during this process, we were consuming adult beverages and goofing off…including some running jumps (pure Olympic-medal stuff, I tell ya!), attempting to reach the canopy bars and push them into place.

At which point we soon realized we were probably the laughing stock of the parking lot and figured we should quit before ending up on YouTube somewhere… At this point we had pretty much resigned ourselves to a tent with a floppy canopy until a random tall person walked by that we could convince to help us. Sad, I know, right?

But all was not lost, friends! My keen eyes noted a group of tailgaters two rows over that had just arrived and were in the middle of tent assembly! So, yeah, we totally watched them do it so we could figure out what to do and voila! We got it! (had to push some braces into place that we, um, sorta just didn’t realize were braces that would slide the canopy bars into locked position…) SO. Success! We were even so proud of ourselves that we offered to help the folks next to us put up THEIR tent. Oh yeah!

Played lots of music (my Ipod's stuck on replay, replay, replay), broke in a new VT pop-up trash can (it's amazing what little things like this add to the tailgate experience, lol) and showed off lots of new VT accessories - sunglasses fit for a Tailgate President, new shirts all around, jewelry, and, well, you get the point!...Needless to say, we drank plenty of beverages and did a little tailgate Dance Party USA action...(I think we need a disco ball to hang inside the tent.)

But, check this dude out! We ran into THIS guy while tailgating at the Spring Game last weekend...(What is UP with that the rear view!?! I've heard of someone being a hard*ss before, but never a hard-hat-*ss!)

Beer Man Trey, FP, and Rachael :-)

Inside the Merryman Center with all the cool VT memorabilia and whatnot. Nice bathrooms, too!

These are the faces of Victory!! Happy Dance!

And, the tailgate continued in Roanoke...or at least the party....with a fabulous Mexican meal, complete with MASSIVE brews.

CHEERS!

April and the Hokie Bird/Transformer on Stilts...random! Just before he posed with three other girls and Rachael made him do pelvic thrusts over their heads. NICE.