Once upon a time, a Georgia girl met a Clemson boy and she promised her family to never pull for a Tiger... but aren't promises made to be broken?
And who wouldn't trade teams when you have two cute little children, who wear cute little outfits, and smile pretty in pictures with those outfits on.... I caved and began pulling for Clemson when we moved back to Georgia... I guess that was the trade for Mark... I'll pull for Clemson if you let me move to Georgia.
From the time they were born, they have been going to Clemson games. We were there many times just tailgating, but it was enough to get that blood to run orange. KB has pulled for them since she started participating in Tiger for a Day...
and don't all little boys pull for the team that their daddy loves? By the way... I smocked these outfits with the help of my neighbor.... Oh what fun it was... and I have never done it again!
So after many years of disappointment... Clemson finally made it to the National Championship. While I thought that everyone would think we were crazy for traveling to the game all the way in Arizona... I only heard how crazy we were for not going and experiencing this once in a lifetime trip.... so we did it... we cashed in all our frequent flyer miles, hotel points, and a little on the side to have a trip of a lifetime!
Mayonnaise and Veve took Sis, Boo, and me to the airport on Saturday morning to catch a flight to Salt Lake City and then to Las Vegas.
After dropping our things in the room, we headed to find supper on the strip. It was quite eye-opening for Ben and KB and neat to watch the different people from all over! We decided to go to see the show Blue-Man Group and Mark loved it! There were Clemson people everywhere!
We stayed at the Luxor and that's a snapchat symbol on the side...
Sunday morning we headed to find Pawn Stars... I have never watched the show... there is no drama there... anyway... Ben and Mark thought it was great!
Then we headed to Hoover Dam... This picture is on the new sky bridge. It makes me nervous and my knees weak just looking at it.
Ben is in one state and KB is in the other.
I'm in one state and Mark is in the other... we stay in two different states of mind anyway!
KB and Ben with Hoover Dam in the background.
Pictures with another state they visited.
We left Hoover Dam and headed to Scottsdale, Arizona for the night. We were starving and met this sweet waitress on Route 66 at a little country restaurant. She was so nice to us!
Had to take this...
Our tickets to the game...
Lee Harvey Oswald, Jr. (Ben and Cole get that name) loves to look at firearms... he was all about these police officers on the corner outside the stadium... so he was all about a picture with them.
Excitement outside the stadium,..
Family picture with the sun right in our eyes!
Inside
Getting ready for the game to start....
I thought I had downloaded all the pics... and I'm too lazy to go back and put them in order... so now my pics...
We didn't have seats by each other on the plane... I thought Ben was going to be nervous, but he wasn't... he did fine sitting between two sweet men who didn't bother him and he didn't bother them!
Inside the stadium before kick-off
And someone spent over an hour in the car studying for her AP World History class... If I had been more like her... I could have been a doctor!
Waiting for Marion to come pick us up from the airport... 30 hours with no bed... so tired!
Walking outside the stadium!
Another Blue Man group pose...
Pawn Stars photo...
What we saw for 4 1/2 hours all the way to Arizona... but the crazy thing is there were so many Clemson fans who did the same thing! They were everywhere!
This is Sis on the ride to Salt Lake City...
On the strip watching cars come by...
At the game!
Warming up still...
Desert ground... snow-capped mountains.... a strange site for this Georgia girl!
And my favorite picture of the entire trip... a make-do bed... putting three suitcases together, kick your shoes off... throw a sweatshirt over you... and take a nap on the floor in the airport! I'm so proud of my travelers and how well they handled the crazy hours.
Clemson didn't win, but we are so proud of how well they played...and I will say that I love Alabama fans.... they truly wanted Dabo to win too... but they weren't willing to give up a title for it! We had a great time and it was worth every bit of money and vacation days spent... I'm thinking the trip to Hawaii for my 20th anniversary was probably just spent in Arizona... but that's okay too... we loved it!
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