Best road trip in a while. First off, let me say how AWESOME the Auburn fans were. When the team buses left all of the AU tailgaters and fans in the street waived and applauded our team on the way out for 2 miles. WOW!
OK, back to the trip. 15 of us rented a "Rock star coach" with a driver included for our 3 day trip. Complete with bar, flat screen TV's, satellite dish, etc. etc.
Here we go:
Thursday
2:00 to 2:30PM- Arrive and load up bus in Ruston.
2:31- Pop the first top.
3:00- Bus rolls out.
7:00- Planned meal in Meridian is cancelled. Unanimous decision for liquid diet that evening. Had snack food and sandwiches on bus so no objections.
10:30- 5 miles from Montgomery, tire blowout!!!
11:00- Hotel vans arrive to pick us up.
11:20- 8 cases of beer and 4 handles of whiskey later we finally arrive at team hotel.
11:45- After checking in we decide to go to the Alley Bar 2 blocks away. Cool place with an "ice bar room" inside. (Freezing room with shots served in ice glasses. Fur coats provided)
12:30AM- Our party is asked to leave. (For the first time)
12:40- We smooth talk our way back in and promise to behave. Still not sure why we had to leave 10 minutes ago.
1:00- Having a great time. Some of us decide to go to the "ice bar". The girl inside sets us up a round. She has a shot herself and throws her ice glass against the wall shattering it. She instructs us to do the same. We follow her lead... all but one of us. He turns around, winds up, and throws it at the other wall. Unfortunately, this wall is a window and not concrete. She is NOT impressed at all and calls the manager. Somehow we stay.
1:30- Two of us are DONE!! Someone volunteers to get them back to the hotel.
1:45- I notice two more of us wearing fur coats from the ice bar in the regular bar. One is zebra striped and the other leopard. This gets a big laughter from the entire bar.
1:50- The same girl from the ice bar comes and demands the coats back. She is NOT happy by now.
2:15- I am told that we have been asked to leave again. We are ready to leave this time.
2:30- On the walk home one of us decides to get a piggy-back ride from another. And he is not prepared nor sees it coming. Both go crashing to the pavement and one hits his head on a concrete lamp post. After we make sure everyone is OK and stop laughing we continue on.
3:00AM- In bed asleep.
Friday
10:00AM- Wake up. Swear to myself that I will never do that again.
10:30- Meet downstairs. Discover that a few of us had the "ralphs" last night and puked everywhere. The rest of us get a big laugh. The guy that hit his head wants to know who whipped his arse. We tell him the story and we all laugh again..except him.
10:45- We leave to play golf at Capitol Hills Golf Club(Robert Trent Jones course)
11:15- Arrive at the golf course and it starts raining. Will not make our 12:00 tee time. Eat lunch there while entertaining and drawing some looks from the other golfers.
1:45PM- We finally tee off. Hung over and stupid we decide to play the "Judge" course from the tips (7800 yards long). We have 3 groups of 4 playing. After watching all of us tee off the golf marshall advises us to finish the round from the front teeboxes. Pride does not allow us to take his advice and several do not even finish their round.
2:30- The hot cart girl comes by serving drinks. After speaking with all 3 of our groups we do not see her for the rest of the day.
4:00- We arrive at a 250 yard par-3 over water. One guy "tin cups" it and hits all of his balls in the water while swearing that he can clear the water. We don't let him borrow any of our golf balls.
6:00- We finally finish our round. Outstanding course by the way. Very beautiful.
6:45- Arrive back at hotel. Shower and get dressed.
7:30- Eat dinner at the Brew House.
9:30- Have a nightcap.
12 Midnight- In bed asleep.
GAME DAY
8:00AM- Wake up, shower, etc.
9-11:00- Eat breakfast, mingle with other Tech fans, players, and coaches.
12:00PM- Eat lunch at Dreamland BBQ. Terrible compared to Hot Rod's ribs.
2:00- Load up on bus and start "tailgating".
2:50- Leave hotel with the team and get police escort to Jordan-Hare. Pretty cool!
3:45- Arrive at JHS and park under stadium. Walked out onto field for a little while.
4-5:30- Tailgated some at Alumni tent and the bus watchin football in the AC.
5:30- Go into stadium from the tunnel.
6-9:00- Saw what everyone else saw. Halftime spent on bus.
10:00- Left with the team and escorts. Very classy Auburn fans on the way out.
11:00- Split with the team in Montgomery. Stopped at a truck stop to refuel and grab a bite to eat.
11:15- Headed home but continuing the "tailgate".
12 Midnight- Someone breaks a man law in the bathroom.
12:02AM- The bus is filled with a mixture of gagging and laughter. We spray Febreeze but it doesn't help.
12:05- The poor hired bus driver pleads to stop and empty the tank at the next truck stop. He has no objections.
2-3AM- Most have fallen asleep by now.
6:45AM- We arrive back in Ruston.
All in all a great trip though. Many more laughs and details will have to be left out. Needless to say, we had a good time.