Yes, I know this is late. Yes, I know most of you know the outcome of the game but I have to put my post up here regarding the awesomeness that was the man-trip to the BYU-OK game in Dallas. The itinerary was simple, fly into Houston, hang out at casa de Hudson-Texas until the following morning, drive to Dallas to play golf with the guys, attend the game hoping to not get blown out by OK too badly, crash that night in Dallas, drive back to Houston in the morning, and fly home that afternoon.
Two things changed. First, the big one, we did not get blown out by OK. That was an amazing game. There are a lot of people who get paid a lot of money to analyze football games so I won't add my amateur knowledge here but I will say that it was one of the most exciting games I have ever attended in my life. My voice is still recovering. The other change was that Sam and I decided that we would rather stay up late than wake up early so we left Dallas to go to Houston at 2:00 AM. It is kind of a 4 and a half hour drive. Nice. For that though I had Sunday morning to hang out with Isaac, Beckham, and Truman, oh and Taryn. Definitely worth the trip and, lets be honest, a middle of the night tour through Texas is kind of fun in itself.
On another note the man-tripness of the trip was past measurement. I had had a rough week leading up to the trip and it was all forgotten. It is amazing how you can forget the fact that you haven't seen people for years and just go back to having a good time. It is also amazing how many peopletell me that I have really good friends. I think they are right. Seriously it is funny to me that a couple of random meetings in the first week of college has led to such good friendships. I am a lucky guy. There was also that guy there that I met when he punched me in the nose when I was ten days old. That meeting didn't go as well but lead to a decent friendship too.
The other element of the trip that was great was seeing the Texas Hudsons. The boys are getting so dang big but so dang fun. As a tip, if you ever do stay with them DO NOT have light saber wars with Isaac and Beckham, you could lose fingers. The house was great, the kids were great and I guess the adults were OK too.
As a summary, I think we can all agree that this was a classic/memorable trip in every way possible from a great game to great friends and great family. Plus I jumped in a dry river bed and found 17 golf balls, not bad; so let's get a cheer... 1-2-3 MAN TRIP!
PS, Sorry for the lack of pictures. I was kind of too busy/distracted to take any. These are lifted from Reza's Facebook account. Additional pictures would have told you the following in a thousand words:
1) Cowboy Stadium is huge
2) Sam and Taryn's house is cool
3) Isaac, Beckham, and Truman are big and cute
4) I look good in all sorts of colors and situations
5) Golf was fun
6) We ate a lot of chicken wings
7) The road between Dallas and Houston is dark at 5:00 in the morning
This weekend we went out with Nick's family and Lizzie picked out her new cat that she now takes everywhere. (Sorry about the blurry pics they are all I had)
Yesterday we had my family over for cake and as you can tell she loves being the center of attention. Lizzie continues to be our little sunshine child and I can't believe she is already two.
Just a quick catch up. Addie started soccer with Nick as the coach. Nick has had fun and Addie likes the practices and kind of likes the games. (Except the other team she doesn't really like playing with them at all.)
School started which has been wonderful.
Nick spent sometime in Chicago
And some time with the girls.
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PS, Sorry for the lack of pictures. I was kind of too busy/distracted to take any. These are lifted from Reza's Facebook account. Additional pictures would have told you the following in a thousand words:
"Mom this is a picture of you when you are mad at me right after I have been naughty. You look mean."
