Last weekend's game at Colorado had a similarly stressful ending, but overall it was a wonderful day in the foothills! After sleeping in a little and enjoying free pastries, bagels, muffins, fruit, coffee and juice on the 8th floor at Glass House (the breakfast buffet is actually inside and not exactly next to the pool, Beth:), we headed up to Boulder and parked near the beautiful downtown Pearl Street Mall. The weather and the mountain views were both wonderful! We walked, shopped and enjoyed the scenery for a couple of hours, and then sat down for an early lunch at a sports bar and grill called the Lazy Dog, where we watched lots of college football! The wait staff was a tad bit cold to us at first, probably because we were decked out in our KU gear, but after killing them with kindness we ended up having a great meal and great service!
We strolled around a bit more after lunch and then walked over to the CU campus, which was just a couple of miles away. The campus was very pretty, and the trees were a lot m
ore colorful there than they were in Kansas at the time. We took a few pictures while wandering around, and then I made Chad take a whole lap around the stadium (trying to get extra training miles in) before we headed in to sit down. It was during this lap that we heard one of the funnier comments of the weekend. We came upon some fellow KU fans, and one guy gave us a friendly hello even though he was talking on the phone as we approached. As we passed, the guy says to the person on the phone, "Hey, Kenny Chesney just walked by." I'm not sure he intended for us to hear, but it was so funny, I think even Chad found it amusing!We headed into the stadium, which at first looked like it wasn't going to be very full. The Jayhawk faithful began pouring in, and soon the visitor's section was full of KU blue. Slowly the rest of the stadium began to fill up with black and gold, and by the time the Buffs kicked off, the Colorado fans were really loud. The game started off a little slowly, and KU's offense really didn't get going until the end of
the first quarter. We only scored a field goal in the entire first half. Thankfully, our defense played really well so the CU offense didn't get going in the first half either. They scored on the first drive of the second half, but the Jayhawks put together a great drive immediately following to score a touchdown, and then scored a field goal on the next drive to put us up 13-7. We scored another unanswered touchdown at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then went for the 2-point conversion and missed. Unfortunately, CU marched right down the field and scored a touchdown with almost 4 minutes left in the game, making it 19-14. When we failed to get a first down on our next drive, we left the door open for them to score in the last minutes of the game. Thankfully, our defense played awesome down the stretch and managed to keep the Buffs from even getting the first down!It was so much fun being there to cheer on the Jayhawks with so many other KU fans, including our friends the Campbells from Lawrence. After the game we walked back down to Pearl Street, where we ate at an incredible pizza place called BJ's Restaurant and Brewery, which had great Chicago style pie--and I don't even really like Chicago style! As we sat on the patio and ate, the weather which had been so beautiful all day suddenly took a turn for the worse: a freezing blast of cold air blew into town and the temperature dropped 20 degrees in about 2 minutes! It was crazy! We finished eating and rushed back to the car to get out of the cold, and then drove back to Denver where we crashed at our comfy little loft. It was a wonderful day with some wonderful football!
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That was weird that Kenny Chesney was there at the game, evidently right behind us, and we didn't even see him!? He must be even shorter in person.
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