Flashback Friday (Part 37) - The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

Eleven years ago, I was only six months out of college and went back to Blacksburg to drink cheap beer visit my best friend CC who was still living there. Since it was Halloween weekend, we had to dress up and hit our favorite watering holes.

She had the great idea to dress up like two slices of bread.

We spent the morning spray painting and assembling our costumes even though we had been out til 4 a.m. the night before.

It was the most fun I'd ever had at Halloween because we spent the night "sandwiching" people in their costumes.

A guy dressed up like French fries, we'd yell "Sandwich!" Then we'd get on either side and squeeze him. Someone dressed up like Frankenstein, we'd yell "Sandwich!" and do it again. At one point a guy was hitting on CC and her response was "Sorry dude, we have enough cheese in this sandwich."

The only challenge was when we started to play pool and had to drop our bread slices to shoot. Otherwise, it was a great time even up to the point someone took a bite out of my costume as the bars were closing.

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Wordless Wednesday - My Vote Counts

Yesterday was election day and I voted. The election message of our carpool traveled to Blacksburg last week to watch the Hokies play.


It worked too. Remember, we tailgated with Governor-elect McDonnell during the first football game at Old Dominion University in September not that he put that tidbit on His blog. Ahem.

What? You didn't have a dog pulling a cart for Halloween?

Tradition continued this year with trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with The Neighbors. This year there was a slight twist. Instead of pulling the wagon like we did last year with the kids in it, we used the dog. Plus, it freed up our hands to drink beer take pictures.

Eli is their 180 pound English mastiff dog who had a custom cart made by Chris. He normally saves his energy for molesting harassing my 52 pound yellow lab Sandy when she visits but not this time.

The kids enjoyed trick or treating and at one point when we were doubling back, we put them in the cart next to the cooler.

The wheels didn't sustain the extra weight but Eli pushed on.

Besides comments about how cute the kids were in their costumes I heard a lot of people saying..."Is that a dog pulling a cart?"

Next year I think we need to put antlers on his head and give him a light up red nose.

Til next Halloween...The End.


Is it time for Thanksgiving yet?

Another Thursday Night in Blacksburg

For the first time, Tim and I carpooled with friends to Blacksburg this past Thursday to watch Virginia Tech play UNC. We were there last year for a Thursday night game and lucked out with great weather. This year it was true again.

Dave and Steve were our chauffeurs and were quite the comedy duo. It was like being in a Grumpier Old Men movie with a view from the backseat. They were constantly bickering, teasing and laughing.


It continued during the tailgating setup and grill assembly before the game.



Tim and I thoroughly enjoyed all of the entertainment and the people we met tailgating.



It was an orange effect for the game and the crowd was loud. That smoke coming from the right hand side is actually from the smoked turkey leg grill. The irony when your alma mater has a mascot called a Hokie Bird that is loosely based the school being known as the gobblers does not go unnoticed.


We had great seats. Unfortunately, we lost the in conference game by only a few points.


It was still worth the trip because I love being in Blacksburg. Where else can you do the Hokie Pokey with 67,233 other people?