Why Gators and Roadtrips Rock.

This past weekend our local University of Florida Alumni Association group - the St. Louis Gateway Gators - went on a road trip to Kentucky to watch the Gators play UK in basketball in Rupp Arena. We don't get to see many Gator games being so far north and none of us had ever been to Rupp - plus it wasn't impossible to get tickets as usual because neither UF or UK are that good this year.
The trip was fabulous. We had such a great time. There are so much funny stories to tell there isn't even enough room. We left here Saturday morning with one car and one rented minivan (me driving since the rental was in my name) for a total of 11 people. The car ride, as usual, was hilarious enough in itself and then we got to talking about what we missed about Florida - which led to Chick-fil-A. We have one Chick-Fil-A in STL -it's in a mall that is about 15 miles from us and now that they have a huge stretch of the interstate shut down until 2010, there is absolutely no good way to get there - for any of us. So a recent Gator addition to STL called her brother and found out there was a Chick-Fil-A in Louisville Kentucky. Another recent Gator addition to STL got out his GPS (aka Bitching Betty) and found the Chick-Fil-A on there. We were psyched. So we got off the interstate - in the cold, snow and ice (in Kentucky where they are NOT prepared for such things) - and kept driving and turning and driving and turning. Finally it tells us to turn left and we realize that the Chick-Fil-A is in a mall - so that was funny. So we got out and ran our hearts out into the mall food court - but no Chick-Fil-A - apparently Betty was no updated and the Chick-Fil-A had shut down and had moved. In any event, the Gator Club finally found Chick-Fil-A and we were happy. It was just a really really funny event - especially since by that time the van had finished about a half a bottle of Segrams 7 (not me- I was driving).
There were just all sorts of funny stories - Cody fell twice pretty hard on the snow because he was drunk. Then we got back to the hotel and Cody had found himself a bottle of A1 and was eating it on his salad that he had leftover from Chick-Fil-A. A group got kicked out of the hotel bar for trying to bring in beer and then some 12 year olds asked them to buy them some beer. All sorts of fun stories - it was a great time by all. I forgot how much fun roadtrips can be. :)