My Good Life: LSU Homecoming

Damn! We had such a great weekend :)))) We left straight for Baton Rouge after picking J up from school Friday. We made great time and got to the hotel after making a stop for fan gear (J actually wanted a jersey) by 9ish. We had a great hotel suite right next to campus. It had a little kitchen, living room and bedroom and was perfect for the weekend. We were able to make the room meeting headquarters and were able to forget things at our leisure because it was so easy to get back to the room from where we were tailgating. The hotel is brand new and I don't think many people know about it yet. We probably need to go ahead and reserve rooms now for next year. Here is the link for the Staybridge Suites: Baton Rouge Hotel Suite
Anyways, after we got settled in our little apartment, Ryan stopped by. We had a few drinks and some dinner that I brought from Memphis. Saturday morning, we got up and were ready to roll! I grabbed a quick workout and K and J went to breakfast while we waited on Dale and Betty to get to Baton Rouge. They made it around lunchtime and we headed to the tailgating spot. Ryan made it shortly after that. We took J for a tour around part of the campus. We went to the new baseball stadium.

And then we went to the football stadium and to Mike's cage to try to catch a glimpse of him but he must have been snoozing because we didn't catch him.

We stopped by the fan shop and J got some more LSU gear and then headed back to the tailgating spot to throw the football and eat and eat and drink and eat some more.

We had boudin, cracklins, wild hog smoked sausage and jambalaya pasta (pastalaya!) We headed to the stadium a little over an hour before game time to let J watch the players practice.

The game was a blowout (51 LSU - 0 UL Monroe)!

We had a lot of fun and J was able to get a spot right next to the tunnel at the end of the game. He sought it out to high five the players after the game and wound up getting one of the players wristband that he wore during the game.

That kid was so excited by that, it was awesome to see how excited he was. After the game we went back to the hotel and caught up with the rest of the days football happenings and had a few drinks. Sunday morning, we got up and hit the Bass Pro in Baton Rouge. It is so much better than the one here. The guys spent about and hour and a half looking around and probably could have stayed for hours more. I ran to the restaurant they had and ordered us some to go food for lunch and once it was ready, I had an excuse to make them leave. I ordered some alligator meat with my lunch and J got to try it for the first time....he was quite the fan and ate more of it than I did. We got home around 6:00 and chilled the rest of the night. Leslie, Laurel and Josh stayed at the house while we were gone, they were in town for a wedding and Les left me some great "Thank you" goodies...Stockpiled me with toilet paper, shampoo, shower gel and an awesome new insulated cup.