Welcome to Miami!!! Such beautiful weather and it was wonderful to see so many friends there! We stayed at the Hyatt in Downtown Miami which was also the hotel where all of the students stayed. Bus loads of students arrived that afternoon and the hotel was just packed!! UC held a pep rally downstairs where Coach Kelly and a few players made speeches. It was such an awesome environment to see everyone so excited about UC football...and the fact that we were in Miami and there were so many people there!!
After the pep rally we ordered some pizzas and got ready to celebrate New Year's Eve. We went to a place in South Beach called Opium Garden. It was fun to hang out with friends, but it just wasn't our scene...way too many people and just too "clubby". We ended up getting back to the hotel around 2:00a.m. after FINALLY finding a cab to take us there!!
The next day, it was time for the Orange Bowl!!!! We got down to Dolphin Stadium around 12:30 and hung out at the tailgate spot all day. Budweiser sponsored a big event with lots of things to do and UC had an alumni tent where we could hang out. It was a great time, but we were definitely ready for the game to start. The game finally kicked off around 8:00 or 8:30. It was such an awesome experience!! I got chills when they played the National Anthem and when the team came out. The game started out pretty good for the Bearcats, b
ut just didn't end up like we had planned. It was a disappointing loss, but we were just glad to be there and our fans definitely outnumbered Virginia Tech's! Even though the Bearcats couldn't take home the Orange Bowl trophy, Jeff and I still got to spend some time with it.
ut just didn't end up like we had planned. It was a disappointing loss, but we were just glad to be there and our fans definitely outnumbered Virginia Tech's! Even though the Bearcats couldn't take home the Orange Bowl trophy, Jeff and I still got to spend some time with it. Before we headed to the airport on the 2nd, we walked around downtown to get some lunch and do some shopping. We ate lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. which was decent. I didn't have much of an appetite, but it was neat to see some of the memorabilia from the making of Forrest Gump which happens to be one of my favorite movies. My brother-in-law, Patrick, and I are masters of quoting the movie! I cracked up when I looked down at our table to see one of my favorite quotes written on it...
All in all, it was a great couple of days! Now it's back to reality and back to work...
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