Well, Jane, To Answer Your Question, We Were ...
... in Missouri, this past weekend. In what has become an annual tradition, we flew out to STL Friday night to travel to Columbia and catch a Mizzou Tigers football game. 
Janice's nephew Dan (Susie's son from Columbus) is a sophomore there now. Last year, Janice flew out solo to watch Mizzou play her alma mater, Kansas. This year, I went along and we watched Mizzou play Nebraska (their biggest rivalry). We spent the night with Joyce and Joe, and had a nice little visit with them. Here we are, getting ready to depart for Columbia on Saturday morning... It was very nice weather there on Saturday morning, but turned out a bit raw and chilly for the game, or as anyone knows, perfect football weather!
Dan was really happy to see his Aunt Janice, and the game turned out to be a good one (at least if you are a fan of Mizzou - they kicked Nebraska's butt 41-24).
The fans, as you can see here, were very happy, and in their joyful exuberance, tore down both goalposts. This was heartening to see, since a couple of years ago, Janice and I took Liz and Rhys to the final game at UConn's Memorial Stadium, before they tore it down to move into their new home at Renschler Field. The kids there wanted to tear down the goalposts but were turned away by Connecticut State Troopers, attack dogs and tear gas.
Bummer.
After the game, we did a walking tour of part of the Mizzou campus, in the cold rain, and had a little shopping spree at the bookstore in the new Student Union.
Then, later, we met up with some of Janice's cousins at a local hangout for some drinks and dinner.
Here are Dan and I back at his new "bachelor pad" apartment off-campus, showing
off his new tumblers and acting ... well ... like a couple of Urkels.
Sunday was a bit laid back, and we just hung out at Dan's apartment until it was time to go back to the airport and come home.
We did have a chance to stop by and say our goodbyes to Joe and Joyce, and to drop off a couple of Mizzou logo-ed merchandise we had picked up as little presents for them.
All in all, it was a really fun but quick weekend, and it meant a lot to Dan for us to get out there.
It was also great to check in on Joe and Joyce and to see his good progress after his surgery.
Janice's nephew Dan (Susie's son from Columbus) is a sophomore there now. Last year, Janice flew out solo to watch Mizzou play her alma mater, Kansas. This year, I went along and we watched Mizzou play Nebraska (their biggest rivalry). We spent the night with Joyce and Joe, and had a nice little visit with them. Here we are, getting ready to depart for Columbia on Saturday morning... It was very nice weather there on Saturday morning, but turned out a bit raw and chilly for the game, or as anyone knows, perfect football weather!
Dan was really happy to see his Aunt Janice, and the game turned out to be a good one (at least if you are a fan of Mizzou - they kicked Nebraska's butt 41-24).
The fans, as you can see here, were very happy, and in their joyful exuberance, tore down both goalposts. This was heartening to see, since a couple of years ago, Janice and I took Liz and Rhys to the final game at UConn's Memorial Stadium, before they tore it down to move into their new home at Renschler Field. The kids there wanted to tear down the goalposts but were turned away by Connecticut State Troopers, attack dogs and tear gas.
Bummer.After the game, we did a walking tour of part of the Mizzou campus, in the cold rain, and had a little shopping spree at the bookstore in the new Student Union.
Then, later, we met up with some of Janice's cousins at a local hangout for some drinks and dinner.
Here are Dan and I back at his new "bachelor pad" apartment off-campus, showing
off his new tumblers and acting ... well ... like a couple of Urkels.Sunday was a bit laid back, and we just hung out at Dan's apartment until it was time to go back to the airport and come home.
We did have a chance to stop by and say our goodbyes to Joe and Joyce, and to drop off a couple of Mizzou logo-ed merchandise we had picked up as little presents for them.
All in all, it was a really fun but quick weekend, and it meant a lot to Dan for us to get out there.
It was also great to check in on Joe and Joyce and to see his good progress after his surgery.
posted by Lee at
10/24/2005 07:05:00 AM
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Missouri seems to be about two weeks behind us, up here in the Northeast, as far as leaves go ... but after our torrential rains over the past couple of weeks, you sort of have to look to find leaves.
I'm not a "leaf peeper" ss they call them up this way, but I know it has been a disappointing season for them here.
What does bug me about "leaf peeping" season is all the folks from NY who come up to CT to look at LEAVES.
That's like me going to New York City to look at homeless bums, I guess. Both are plentiful.
(editor's note - that last paragraph sounded alarmingly like something RC would write ... sorry)
AND ... the really funny thing here, is that the "Word Verification" password on this comment was "oyjewnyview". I think I'm going to look over my shoulder tomorrow morning.
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Lee, at 10/24/2005 10:10 PM
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