So like I said Alicen and I went to Vegas for a weekend. We left McKinley at grandma Kettenring's house and Taitan was somewhere (can not be said). And we where off. We had planned on leaving Saturday morning, driving down straight to the game and then stay over a night and drive back. However on Friday, my great boss asked if I wanted to leave early on Friday and get a head of the snow storm. I said "No, we will be OK" but after a while of thinking about it. I thought it might be a good idea. So I called Allie and she found us a room for the night and I left at like noon and we took off. The weather did turn bad as we dropped the kiddies off but once pass Alpine we had blue Sky's all the way down. We stayed at the Luxor the first night and that was fun. That night we walked one side of the strip and went to the M&M store, Coca Cola store, and mostly mall stores at the Planet Hollywood Casino. We just enjoyed the Vegas night (even if it was cold). We did not go to bed until 3 am. Saturday morning we checked out, drove to Walmart because I forgot Alicen's Hair spray and got in major trouble. She will deny it but its true. Then back to Planet Hollywood to check into our new room for the next night. We really did not know what to do so we went to find the Nike store and I thought it was in the Mandalay Bay casino but only found Nike Golf. So we got back in the car and headed to the Pregame Party.
We got to the Sam Boyd Stadium almost right when the Pregame Tailgate party started. So we got free popcorn, we ate a cold Hot dog and Burger and got a free Monster energy drink. We bought some Hawaiian nut necklace to hang in the car and looked at a sweet lifted Toyota Tundra. I even got to sit in it. I was excited. Then we listened to the battle of the marching bands between BYU and Arizona. Arizona was louder and played great pep rally music. Then we went into the stadium to get the game started. We had pretty good seats. We could see the game really well. They had a fly over with F16 from Nellis Air Force base and Had The Hoff (David Hasselhoff) sing the national anthem, with a huge flag on the field. It was nice.
The game on the other hand was not a great. I mean on the first play BYU get a Personal Unsportsman like conduct. However its the first play of the game, tension is high. Bad call. Then BYU looked like they did not want to win or even play. Give Arizona props though, they played good and tough. They wanted to win. BYU's team was just off. The defense was slow, Max Hall has lost confidence in himself since the TCU lose and the offense just could not get things moving. Anytime something good happened, a penalty killed it. Also the referee's where horrible. They couldn't get a call right if it was told to them. I have never seen a crew of officials like these ones. It was bad, both teams by half time where booing them. Every call took 10 minutes with a review. Its was sad to see BYU lose, Alicen was mad to spend money on tickets and then not even see them win. Its just the way the game goes. BYU just needs to learn to win night games. They lost all three this year.
At least most of their offense is back next year and maybe they can make a run at the BCS again. We can only hope as Cougar fans. We left the game early and Alicen put in a complaint about the Referee's and a fan that got out of hand. Then we took off to dinner at P.F. Changs. We sat at the bar because we did not want to wait for a table. It was fun as Non drinkers to see the bar tender make the different drinks. We had to ask a couple times what he was making; and he in return asked why we dont drink and couldnt figure it out. We had a lot of fun talking. After we went out on the strip to look around. Found Nike and a couple other stores to look at.
As we went back to the hotel for the night, we waited for the elevator to our room we saw BYU's Offense Cordinator and wished him best of luck, and a good played game. He looked depressed and down. But he gave us a little thanks smile. As we got on to a full elevator we can some kids and parents think I was a player. They all looked at me and you could tell was trying to figure out who I was. Then when we went to get off they all said "Good game" and "Good season" I just had to laugh that they thought I was a player. Made me feel good even though they lost. That was pretty much our weekend. We head home the next morning. Although we stayed up until 2 am that night too. A nice little trip and vacation.
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