Busy start to the new year

The trip to the Chick-fil-a Bowl didn't exactly turn out like we hoped. LSU absolutely destroyed us. I don't want to go into a ton of detail, the memories are painful. I'll just say LSU was ready to play and did so with something to prove - that they were still an elite team with elite talent, and they definitely had more horses than we did. Most evident on special teams, where depth truly shows. I believe we came in over confident and were surprised how LSU punched in the face right away. We recovered for 2 nice drives, but only got 3 points out of it. When it was 14-3 and we forced them to punt again, our punt returner muffed the punt inside the 20 and they quickly went up 21-3. The game was over after that, for all intents and purposes.


Despite the outcome of the game, we had a great time on the trip and the festivities before the game were a lot of fun. It was an awesome Christmas present and I definitely plan on going to another bowl game soon. Random note: the highlight of the game for Tech fans was the unofficial Chick-fil-a paper airplane throwing contest. All the GT fans were bored in the 3Q and decided to use the BB&T promotional flyers as paper missiles and launched them towards the playing field for a solid 20-25 minutes. Several landed on the field and behind the LSU bench. The LSU fans were outmatched and could not handle the onslaught of aerospace engineering talent that GT brought to the game. Sadly, none of this really counted and shows the state of the game for GT fans.


New Years Day we stopped at some Atlanta shops and malls to looks for some things. We also stopped at Garden Ridge on the way home and got some great deals on some Christmas items. We were pretty tired after our trip but we decided to work on the bar when we got home. That's all we've basically done for the rest of the week, besides taking down our hundreds of Christmas decorations. The bar has been painted and we also put the tile on top of it this weekend. The final steps, which are putting the crown molding and possibly creating some front accents on it, may be done tomorrow.


We took tonight off because we went out to eat for my grandfather's (Sappoo!) birthday. His birthday was actually yesterday, but we decided to take him out to eat tonight and we had a great time talking about a lot of different things. He turned 73 years young and hasn't slowed down any. I'm sure he'll be going out golfing tomorrow, like he does every other week day. That's the life right there.


I'm about to go watch some TV. Have a good night.