Go Deacs!! But in the cold rain it means I wanna Go HOME Deacs!

You know sometimes...when you get free tickets....there is a reason. Big Daddy came home w/ a handful of free WFU vs Vandy football tickets. The weather had been predicted all week to be bad Saturday night in Winston but that didn't keep us from being excited about going to BB&T Field to watch the Demon Deacs take to the gridiron. My guess is that the person that gave Big Daddy these tickets knew all to well what to expect. Keep in mind we are all still damp from the cold Christmas tree excursion but we all file into the stadium that was sparse with fans. BUT before we go sit down...2Shaye has to stop out front of the entrance for a photo op with the new bronze statue of the Demon Deacon.

Everyone is lining up to get their picture made when I realized that Sam is sporting his NC State shirt underneath his jacket. Could that be because NC State has its way with Wake a few weeks ago? My guess is 'most definitely'. Oh well... he should be proud of being part of 'the pack' .... but surely with all the Wake t-shirts I KNOW he owns he could have found ONE to wear that day! :)

Wormie, the Xbox Junkie, 2Shaye and Sam all head over to 'the hill' ... as that was where these free 'seats' were located....it's all coming together now. Raining and sitting on the ground at the bottom of the hill...not exactly ideal. But the stands were empty enough that they could have found seating other than the cold, wet ground. But they had rain gear, tarps and cold weather garb so off to 'the Hill' they went refusing to come off as wimpy. Big Daddy and I were sitting nicely in the stands but I can promise you that we were not any warmer or dryer than the kids sitting on 'the hill'. Eventually wimp set in and the kids drew straws to see who had to come tell us they were desperately ready to leave. 2Shaye lost so she made the track to our seats. Actually we were cold and ready to jet as well but we were going to stay as long as they wanted. So at half time... and being true fair weather fans that night... we left.

Not sure what Wormie sees in this picture but it cant be good! :)

We decided to go out to eat instead....and Wormie wanted to go to Poncho Villa's. Its a great Mexican Restaurant in Winston but for some reason at 8:45 pm that Saturday night the parking lot was literally empty. Big Daddy would not even THINK about going in there when there wasn't even ONE customer to be found. Could it be ...that years ago an employee working at the steak restaurant that used to be there was murdered AND no restaurant has stayed in business for more than a year since the murder AND Big Daddy swears it must be haunted AND he was just too skeert to color outside the lines to even take a chance? You betcha and he's not afraid to admit it.....so he turned the car around and we left as fast as we got there.

We ended up at Mi Pueblo...another Mexican eatery. It was decent but I must say that the dance recital that Big Daddy and 2Shaye gave us that night was better than the grubbage. That along with Wormie getting pelted by ice pellets from a straw after she returned from the restroom by The Xbox Junkie (He was having DTs from a full day without Call of Duty...obviously!) So finally..... after a day of tree hunting in the sleet, Christmas music continuously in the car, the cold, rainy WFU game, the haunted restaurant, the dance recital and spit ball war... we headed to Shoals. What an awesome day.