I Went Home This Weekend

I just wanted to send this out to people who are still at Auburn and those who graduated from there and haven't had the chance to go back in a few years.  Yes, it has changed a lot in the past 9 years since I graduated and some parts are hardly recognizable, but it IS still the loveliest village on the Plains.

I went back up for homecoming with several of my friends this weekend and we all stayed with one of my friends who still goes to school here, my advise to him after one of the best days I have had in awhile, enjoy it while you are here.  Enjoy all of the small things.  Enjoy seeing the Toomer's rolled mess at night, it is a beautiful site to behold.  Enjoy the people who surround you, 95% of them are great people.  Enjoy Tiger Walk, it is a great experience.  Enjoy being able to hang out at the baseball park before a game and watch some baseball on a beautiful game day.

I have always told my buddies that one of my favorite memories at Auburn was something so stupid and something that normally I would hate, going to afternoon baseball games and just hanging out for a couple hours.  Saturday I lured them in and everyone had a blast.  I normally hate baseball and generally despise everything about it, but at Auburn, I love it.  We went in after Tiger Walk and just hung out for about an hour before the game and watched some old timers playing, I have no idea who they were or why they were playing, but it was fun just sitting around on a great Saturday afternoon and watching it.

The crowd at Jordan-hare was weak on Saturday, not many showed up and there were a ton of empty seats, but for anyone who wasn't there, you couldn't ask for a better afternoon for football, 65-70 and sunny.  We had plenty to cheer about with the team clicking from the start and we got to see a lot of the backups play and see how they will react a little next year.

Then we all hit the bars, we went downtown and hung out with some old friends and made some new ones.  I have to say, while only a few bars that were here when I went to school here still exist, some of the new ones are pretty damn fun in their own rights too.

War Eagle everybody, take it in and enjoy it, there are few places better to be.