Happy New Year!

Happy 2011, followers! I hope you all had a great first few days of 2011, I know I have!

In case you've been living under a rock or are not a sports person, TCU WON THE FREAKIN' ROSE BOWL!!!

I've started uploading my photos to flickr so I can get them on my blog more easily in the future so here's my first test:

Saturday was a long and exciting day for me! I started by waking up at 4:40 am after a few hours of sleep to go to the Rose Parade. The floats were AMAZING. I can't explain how in awe I am that everything on those floats is flower-related. Flowers, seeds, rice, it's crazy! It's sooooo beautiful!
This is one of my favorite floats from the parade. It depicts one of America's greatest presidents, ronald Reagan throughout his life.

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Originally uploaded by FMKey88


After the parade, my mom and I walked back over to the buses and our caravan of buses had a police escort to the Rose Bowl. It was so surreal being there! I still can't believe we made it there AND WON! After hiking to the tailgate (on a golf course, swanky), we ate and I took some pictures with friends. We hiked back tot he stadium from the golf course and watched one of the coolest games I've ever watched. It comes SO close to the Utah 2009 game, but isn't quite as awesome. My mom said it's a different awesome, which is definitely true. After the game, we boarded the buses and headed back to the hotel where we ordered room service and passed out. Go frogs!

Pasadena Bound

TCU has SOLD OUT of the 20,000 allotted tickets to the Rose Bowl. My mom and I are two of the lucky people included in the sea of purple that will be taking Pasadena by storm for the last couple of days of 2010 and beginning of 2011. So excited! But of course, I must thank my ticket purchaser, Stef, because otherwise my mom and I would be traveling, but not actually getting into the game.

Go frogs!

California Dreamin'...

In honor of the first Go Purple Friday of football season (35 days till Kick Off in Cowboys Stadium!), I'd like to share with you readers this wonderful little article from USA Today from July 22. USA Today predicted BCS bowl games for this season. I quite like this prediction, not only because this little horned frog would visit the other city of roses, Pasadena, but because they've picked TCU to win. After last season, I think it's possible, but I won't get my hopes up. I'll let the nation's leading QB, Andy Dalton, do the work while I cheer in the stands or at home. GO FROGS!!!