WVU

If anyone knows Jeff even remotely you know he is a HUGE West Virginia University Mountaineer fan. Since coming back home he has been trying to figure out how to get tickets to a football game. They have been sold out or the tickets are being scalped for $100-$200 dollars. You can imagine then how excited Jeff was when we found out they had some on sale for $45. He enlisted his nephew, his nephew's girlfriend, her brother and friend, and his niece to go to the game with him. The only catch is he had to be in Morgantown Friday morning at 9:00am to purchase the tickets. To a WVU fan that is no problem at all. To a mother of 5 and a sleepless night that is no small feat. Morgantown is about 1 1/2 hours away from our hotel room in Cumberland. To our amazement we made it to the ticket booth at 9:17am. Of course there was already a long line and the temperture was a chilly 32 degrees. But again to a WVU fan... No Problem... The kids and I waited in the truck. The line moved pretty quickly. Jeff only stood in line for about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

After the tickets were safetly secured in our hands Jeff showed us around the campus and town. He went to school here for 3 years and was so excited to show us around. The campus and town were not what I expected. I am not really sure what I expected, but it was this. I was thrilled to finally get to see where Jeff lived. WVU has been a huge part of his life. This is some of the campus. The campus itself is spread over 2-3 miles. In fact there is a rail car system for the university so the students can get from building to building. The dome in the picture is the colisium where Jeff got the tickets from. This is where they play basketball.

This is the Woodburn building on the downtown compus. Alot of the buildings look like this.

Saturday was the game. After scrounging up enough warm clothes everyone headed out about 12:30 on Saturday. The stadium seats 63,500 and it was completely full. Jeff said the noise in the place was incredible. By the way, if you don't keep up with football. WVU won and is now ranked either 1st or 2nd (depending on the poll) and could be playing for the national championship.

The kids and I stayed at Jeff's parents house for a relaxing day of taking care of babies. I was able to get a little bit of scrapbooking in. Jeff made it back to his parents about 10:30 that evening. As soon as Jeff got back we quickly headed for home. We didn't get home until about 1am. We had a great time though. Jeff had a great time at the game. I'll have to get pictures from his neice and nephew.