What's New with Schacalieu?: The Big Game

We had been looking forward to the weekend because we were going to the big game...Yale v. Harvard and tailgating beforehand. Phin & Carla were coming in from NYC to visit and go to the game with us. We dropped a car off early at the festivites and then we met people from Jeremy's lab around 9:30 to go get the festivities started. Well, of course, people were late and we didn't actually leave until 10am. (this is my biggest pet peeve ever!) Anyways, then we had to fight the traffic to get to the stadium. The traffic was really unbelievable, but we got lucky and found a place to park on the street and walked the rest of the way there. Here is a picture of the traffic.

Once we got there, the masses of yalies and harvard preppies were buzzing with pre-game excitement. Basically just lots of people dressed in blue and crimson. It was very festive. We were lucky and our car was parked close to a stero set-up so we had some tunes to listen to. Jeremy and I brought the famed "skip n' go naked" juice to get the party started. There is nothing like starting to drink at 10:30am to get your motor goin'. It was pretty cold out, so when the hot chocolate and baileys was broken out, we welcomed it into our hands and mouths. Here is a picture of me with Christen and Kristin double fisting it...

And then there was Phin...triple fisting it!

After tailgating for a while, we decided to go into the Yale Bowl and catch the game. I have to say...it seemed more like high school football than college. The stadium was kinda small, but the saddest thing (besides Yale losing horribly) was the half time show. Man was it nerdy!! Yale had constructed pterodactyl and a big dinosaur type thing and there was this whole story that went along with it. I feel that if they put that energy into practicing football, we might have scored some more points. Here is a picture of the halftime show.

After the amazing show and checking the scoreboard, we decided our time was better spent tailgating.

On our way back, we happened upon a preppie that had had waaaaay too much fun and needed a little nap. This is just some random dude.

After we got back to our spot, Christen took us to play a little cornhole. I had seen this game before, but never knew what it was called. People play it on the beach in SD. It is like horse shoes, but you throw bean bags into a board with a hole in it. Christen and I lost horrible to some guys. Oh well, it was fun, besides the guy trying to convince me that my name was Angel.

The weather had started to get super chilly and the skip n'go naked was all gone, so we decided it was time to call it a day. I navigated our car out of the parking lot...and this is where the story gets really good...So we are waiting in traffic, once again, this time to get out of the Yale Bowl and there was a group of older people tailgaiting. We thought it would be a good idea to dare Jeremy to steal one of their cookies off of their table. Jeremy decided he would do it and took off running from the car like a mad man on a mission. He ran to the table, grabbed a cookie, and bolted back. The old people started yelling (all in fun) and laughing. Then one of the ladies came up to our car with a glass of chardonnay in her hand and offered us muffin tops. She was distracing us while one of the men stole our cooler from the car. We were all laughing hysterically when another lady came over and offered us brownies and sandwiches that were labeled "tuna" and "turkey." She asked us who we were rooting for and we said Yale and she said "good. If you were from Harvard we would take everything back." They took pictures with us in the car. It was hilarious!!!

The episode must have made everyone in the back of the car pretty tired. While I was sitting in traffic, this is what transpired in the back seat...

We made it home and around 5pm and it felt like it was midnight, but we rallied for some dinner and then passed out around 10:30pm. Here are some more pics of the game for your viewing pleasure.

We woke up on Sunday all rested and ready for the day...well all of us except for Phin....

Ha ha! Not really, this is in the car after walking around. Phin was showing off his amazing greasy hairdo. This took days of work!

We went to breakfast and then checked out Yale. The colors are really beautiful now. Here are some pics. I can't get over the red colors. It is truely breathtaking and I don't think the pictures fully capture the beauty.