WE ARE....PENN STATE!!!!

This weekend, Adam and I hit the road yet again, this time to go to our first session of premarital counseling and then to head up to State College to attend the Penn State vs. Illinois game and celebrate Adam's sister Cara's 20th Birthday!

We dropped Tobey off for the first time at the kennel around 9:00AM on Saturday morning, and headed toward Mechanicsburg in the pouring rain. After a successful premarital counseling session with Dr. Melton, we set out for State College.

Adam and I arrived at State College around 2:00PM and somehow found our way through the maze of RV's, to his grandparents RV. We hung out there for a while, grilled some steaks for dinner, and sang "Happy Birthday" to Cara.

Around 7:00PM, we headed over for the 8:00PM game. This was the first "white-out" and night game I have ever been to, and it was really neat. The ENTIRE stadium was full of fans in their white Penn State gear. It was a really good, and exciting game and to top it off, Penn State won!

By the time we got out of the stadium and back to the RV it was after midnight and I was exhausted. We waited for the traffic to die down a little bit before Adam, Cara and I headed back to Cara's apartment for the night. Because Cara has no visitor parking in her apartment complex, we decided to park in the Giant parking lot, accross the street from the apartment.

We finally got to bed around 2:00AM and after a rough night on an air mattress on Cara's bathroom floor, got up around 10:00AM on Sunday morning. We were planning on going over to get Adam's car and then heading back to Baltimore to pick up the dog and relax for the afternoon. However, when we walked over to the parking lot, Adam's car was nowhere to be found. We discovered that Giant tows cars that are left in the parking lot on football weekends. The towing company actually sends someone in an unmarked car to watch for people parking there. They watched us get out of the car, get our bags, and walk over to the apartment.

After rescuing Adam's car from the impound lot, we were finally able to drive home. We picked up Tobey (who was equally as exhausted as we were) and relaxed for the rest of the evening. After two busy months (August and September), I am looking forward to spending most of October in Baltimore, relaxing and saving money!