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Has it really been a week since the last update? Wow, time does fly.
Well I had one of the most memorable Friday nights of my college experiance last
night (and no, not for why you're thinking. Get your mind out of the gutters
people). I camped outside the UF basketball stadium for 14 hours in the cold and
rain, staying up all night and having a ton of fun.
I had always wanted to camp out for a basketball game, cause I thought it would
be fun and definitly a "college experiance". So with the Alabama game today
being show on national television on CBS, it was the t-shirt game where the
first 1,000 students sit in the Rowdy Reptile section of student seating, and
get a free shirt. So people start camping out in front of the O'dome on
Wednesday afternoon for the Saturday afternoon game, just to be sure to be in
Rowdy Reptile. So I was originally planning on getting in line very early
Saturday morning with a friend of mine. But then Alyson wanted to camp out
overnight, so of course I decide to do that. She knew some people who got in
line at 3 pm Friday, and so we took over the night shift for them, with me,
Alyson, and her friend Adam at about 11 pm. By that time there are about
20 tents set up around the area, and I'd guesstimate about 200 people
camping out.
The night itself was pretty cold, as the lows got to the mid 40's. It also
rained lightly off and on througout the night, so I had a poncho over my blanket
and an umbrella over my head to keep me pretty dry. And then the people..... oh
the people. Games of Marco Polo (and then Crude... Oil) at 3 in the morning.
Doing Gator chants far into the night. Some of the band students played some
earlier in the evening. And then every hour (and yes, this includes like 5 am
etc) this group of kids would walk around with a stero blasting Roxette's "The
Look". So that song will forever be ingrained in my head with last night. And
then just random funny stuff that people would yell to each other or to no one.
It was crazy, and so much fun. Needless to say I got absolutly no sleep, but it
was very entertaining.
Finally morning comes (and it gets bright very quickly, I was playing tetris and
in the time it took me to do 2 levels it had gone to barely being able to see
the pieces to it being very clear), and everyone takes down their tents and I
take all my crap back to my room since they don't allow you to carry anything in
with you. Finally get into the O'dome at 11am, and get our shirts sortly after
that. The game itself was great, and we won thank goodness after our
embarressing loss to Kentucky on Tuesday.
Suprisingly enough I'm not "sleepy" but I'm incredibly tired. By this time I'd
been up for 32 hours straight, with only 4 hours of sleep on Thursday night. My
mind is completely useless, but physically I'm active, must have been the
adreniline. But it was definitly worth it! And as an extra perk, the shirts we
got glow in the dark! Too cool. And I'm planning on camping out again for the
Kentucky game in March, so I'll get to go through all of this once again this
year :)
Oh, and pictures will be up eventually. I took a bunch with my disposable
camera, and took a bunch with Alyson's digital one as well.
And it's coming....... one week...
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