Some of the best memories....

Fall is upon us, and one of the biggest things to do is watch college football on a Saturday.  At least in our house, it is. We are huge University of Michigan fans here. Nick graduated from there, I am getting ready to graduate from there, plus we live in the same city as the college.  It's almost as if we have no choice but to be U of M fans.

Anyway, the first year we got married Nick and I didn't make a lot of money. We were young, poor, and totally in love. We found that we had money leftover after paying the bills, and Nick found tickets to the game against Minnesota dirt cheap, so we bought 2 tickets. I wasn't excited about going, the last game we went to, the fans were crying (husband included) because we lost to a team who's name will not be mentioned.

We woke up that morning and it was freezing.  Of course we didn't realize that until we had already gotten into the city and parked our car.  So, we went to the bookstore and bought overly priced gloves, scarf, mittens (for me), and a zip up fleece. It was that cold. On our way, walking to the stadium, we were offered free hot chocolate and hot cider and donuts. Um, only hell yes did we take everything we were offered.

We had the time of our lives at that game.  Michigan played well, I finally learned the cheers, and my husband was happy. It was really windy that day, so windy in fact that we had wind burn on our cheeks.  We went out later with friends who promptly told us we had the pinkest cheeks ever. I thought it was because we were too smitten since we went on a date, but we figured it out later why.

Today is October 5th, 2013.  Every season since our marriage, when we play Minnesota at home, we make a point to go. Today we play Minnesota at home, and we'll be two lovebirds sitting in the stands once again.

I laugh now, but I can't believe how many of our favorite dates were when we were poor, but creative with our money. Nick and I still talk about our dates from when we were really young. I just can't wait to go and create another memory today.