Frugal Superbowlers --- Pictures Here
by Darin at N30 24.652, W097 43.644
How better to start my first weblog entry than to recount the story of last weekend! Scotty Dub, Ames and I trooped off in my Isuzu to Houston, to partake in the craziness going on with the hoardes of people crowded into the downtown area. Thanks a bunch to Kim and Samantha and Whitney and Co for letting us watch the game and guide us around and all.
We started off downtown, where we were surrounded by nearly 250,000 crazy football fans (and indifferent folks. After several times getting separated from our group, we 3 Austinites finally just set up shop on the top of an electric box and spent the time high-fivin just about everyone. Then we almost got trampled by a stampede like event when some fool had a gun in the crowd and scared an entire throng of people to start running the other direction. After recovering and regrouping, we still had the coordination for a human pyramid with help from some random folks.
Then we went camping--urban camping. We found a square of grass behind the Shriner's building in a nearby neighborhood, and set up the tent. After 4 hours of godawful sleep thanks to the banner-planes flying overhead we got up to start our tailgating the next day.
We set up a slackline between two poles, and started up the ole trusty campstove for some hobo-hippy good times. We ate dogs off of a sewer drain, played frisbee in a pretty nasty drainaige ditch area, and met the marijuana cheerleader squad. Otherwords, just a great time. And after retreating back to Kim's and watching the big game with 9 girls, well, I'd have to declare the weekend a success :)
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