Gators are National Champs!

GATORS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! Yep, we did it - we drove back to Indy on Monday for the Championship Game. Yep, we're crazy - especially after I had to be in Columbia at 9 am (and Columbia is 2.5 hours away - to the west). So I woke up early, did my cases in Columbia, drove back to St. Louis, picked up Cody and we were off to Indy for the second time in as many days. But man was it all worth it! The Gators were awesome, the game was awesome, the atmosphere was awesome - it was in a word, awesome. Watching them tear apart UCLA like that and watching the fans just go crazy the bigger the margin got and as more time passed was just amazing. It's Wednesday and our throats are still insanely sore from all the yelling and screaming we did! After the game the confetti came down and they handed out the National Championship trophy - then we got to see the players cut down the net. We're so used to watching all this fanfare on TV it was almost surreal watching it in person. I felt like pinching myself because it was hard to believe we were actually there and actually watched the Gators win the National Championship. After the game, walking the streets of Indy and randomly yelling "Go Gators!" and having everyone cheer and then chanting with hundreds of people you don't know "It's great to be a Florida Gator" is just indescribable. I apologize to all the non-sports folks out there that won't understand a bit of this madness, but the best I can analogize the experience to is watching your favorite band live for the first time (like when Breeze and I skipped out of high school to watch Bad Religion in Jacksonville). It was just such a priceless, wonderful experience. . . . Until we had to drive the four hours home in the middle of the night. :) Luckily Cody was able to take off work on Tuesday and I didn't have any cases set until 10am, but we're still dead tired and catching up on sleep from the festivities.
On another note, we had our first German 2 class last night (precluding my plan of coming home after work and going directly to bed). It seems likes it's going to be a really good course. Hopefully we'll learn a lot and have at least some understanding of the language by the time we go over there - I don't believe it's only two months away!!
In closing, it's great to be a Florida Gator (at least in basketball). :)