The Saturday after Thanksgiving is always the Florida vs. Florida State football game. This year we gave our tickets away to Collin and Heather Vataha, good friends from Boston. Collin has always been a huge Gator fan and Heather wanted to surprise him for his birthday and take him to a game. What better game to go see than Florida vs. Florida State. Matt and I were able to get tickets as well and join them and Bob and Lisa for the last game of this season.
For Matt's Christmas present from my parents, they bought him the Nike coach's polo. Every since we arrived in Gainesville Matt has been eyeing the Gator Nike dryfit gear and now he finally got one. Mom and Dad gave it to him early so he could wear it for the big game!
We planned to tailgate around 2 pm. Collin and Heather arrived earlier and we headed to campus to show them the University. It was a great experience for Matt and I as well because we saw all sorts of new things that happen on "game day" that we had never seen before because we usually just got to the Law School to tailgate. It was really fun to show friends around campus. I gained a fresh new amazement , uniqueness and awe about the University that I think I had lost since that 1st football game 2 years ago.
Here are some of the pictures of the things we saw and the places we went.
If you look closely at the top right picture, the guy is riding a motorcycle that he has turned into a gator. He added a gator head and gator skin and was wearing gator boots. People here are nuts!!
It was our last tailgating for the season. We were sad to see football season come to an end. We feel so blessed that we have had a chance to experience Gator Football.
The game was at 7 pm and was on ESPN. Everyone was excited and the stadium was really loud. We had different seats than we had ever had before. They were awesome!! We were 6 rows from the endzone. It was like TEbow was throwing it to us. We were right in the line of the cameras too. Heather got on the big screen, but only parts of my arm made it! I took a ton of pictures since this was the last game of the season. It is funny to reflect back over the season. Not only is the weather totally different, but we've experienced some great football. If you look closely at the uprights you can see the football going through!
At the end of every game Tebow walks around the edge of the entire stadium and give everyone a high five. This time we stayed around to see it.
This season it was the fiersome foursome that sat together. We had some great memories this season with Bob and Lisa. They are such true, genuine, and fun friends. We love you guys! We are so thankful that God put you in our lives. Gainesville wouldn't be the same without you.
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