Woooo Pigs Soooiiiiieeeee!!!!

Wow! What a great time we had on Saturday setting up our first real experience with "tailgating Razorback style." Steve had been getting his list together all week.

We had bought a special smaller grill and of course the special "Razorback" pop-up tent for special effect.

Then, of course, came the realization that we were going to have to take the XTerra because with everything we needed to take it would be totally impossible to even consider taking "Baby" my Volkswagon convertible! By the time the Xterra was packed up on Saturday morning, it was obvious that we had not a spot to spare and would need to work on cutting down before our next tailgating party.

Connie had called and said they had a spot ready for us at her niece's house very close to the stadium that would be just perfect for tailgating. She gave us the address and off we went.

We were the first ones there and it was so much fun setting up everything for the first time! Steve was obviously excited, as most guys are, to get his "grill" going. Initially it seemed that it wasn't going to light...that was not going to be good. Connie's brother, Mark, came over and together with his daughter Megan they got the thing going for the first time and we had FIRE!!!!! (almost felt like Tom Hanks on Castaway!) Out came the burgers, the hot dogs and brats (sp?) . The girls stayed busy parking cars and we had such a good time laughing and eating and watching folks go by while we listened to music and the Razorback CD at least 20 times!!! Even saw former Senator David Pryor going by...I think he was wanting to stop and party with us actually!

Sarah and her boyfriend John came by and enjoyed some of the afternoon with us. Greg even managed to come by before he went to his briefing for work with the police officers during the game. His job was to go around and take photos of them doing their job. It was great to have him join us and fun to see him, although he was tired from having just walked all the way from his apartment!! Later that night he had gone back to his apartment and passed out before 10:30, which is highly unusual for him.

He is a cutie, isn't he? Of course, I'm not at all prejudiced!!!! I think this was just before I finally sat down in one of the chairs and it broke. No comments please. haha.

Then it was time for us to leave for the game. It was supposed to be such a good game, an easy win for Arkansas, Petrino's first game on Arkansas soil. Well, I promise not to bore ya'll with photos of the field from every game, but I wanted to post a few...especially the great new Razorback hog in the middle of the field. The story Steve heard is that Houston Nutt would not allow one before because he did not like having it in the films when he would watch the films later in the week of the previous game...said the design messed him up. So, we got the Hog back and it looks great! Of course there is just nothing like the awesome band and the fog coming out when the players run on the field, the national anthem and the flyby. Of course we are up pretty high and so we have a "clear" view of the entire field.!!! We have the same seats we have last year, but we got the seats so we have backs on our seats at least! woohoo! Great fun and can't wait to do it again!!! Go Hogs!!!