go dawgs!

So, remember how I said that in college, one of my friends and I would take weekend road trips to random schools that were reasonably close to Chapel Hill for no real reason at all?  Well, the fact that we both have degrees now (we're three years apart, so that took awhile) didn't really change that.  He lives and works in Charlotte, so I drove down on Sunday evening and we took off to Athens, GA on Monday!  We left at the beginning of rush hour, so we were there by 10:45 and stayed until about 3:30, and by that point, it wasn't so much that we ran out of things to do as it was that our legs and feet were ON FIRE.  I forgot how hilly Athens is!  Seriously, even Virginia Tech, which is legitimately in the Virginia mountains, is less hilly.  We were lucky that it was such a beautiful, 65 degree day, because otherwise, we might have given up a lot sooner!

UGA Law School

home of georgia football!  go dawgs! 

the world would be a much better place if we were all this creative.

dorms and classrooms behind the stadium.

these bulldogs are allll over campus, but each is painted differently.

Broad St. entrance to campus.

near the agriculture buildings.

the indoor arena, used for basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics!  I wanted to be a UGA gymnast at one time.  and then I grew to be 5'9".

inside the arena!  you know where their priorities lie when the football stadium is locked and the basketball arena is wide open.

I didn't remember that UGA hosted some of the Olympics, but I guess they did!

for some reason, this bush had blue paint on it.  that's ok... reminds me of UNC.

we stopped at Clemson on the way back!  we definitely took the back way there, but it was a really beautiful scenic route (that David drove like a pro).  I'd been there already back in the fall, but we had both been there back in September of 2006 when they crushed Carolina 53-6 or something obscene like that.  still, it was good to be back.

near the library.

this is actually a picture that David took in downtown Athens, and the "No Cruising Zone" sign made us laugh hysterically when we first saw it!  if you don't get it, that's ok.  I just had to make sure I closed the post with it.

We were both realllly tired and sore at the end of the day, but somehow we still ended up watching tv until 1 am!  I still don't know how we did that, but we couldn't turn off Law & Order, and then Jay Leno was hilarious (this was on his show), and then Jimmy Fallon did a whole bit with captions he wrote for Obama's various facial expressions, so it was really hard to turn off!  But we still had enough energy to walk around Lake Norman and Davidson College the next day, which was beautiful!  And then we ate at Toast, which was AMAZING.  Definitely go!

Oh, and all of our road trips have had a theme song in the past, and it's usually that annoying one that won't stop coming on the radio.  This time, I thought it would initally be Ludacris's "How Low Can You Go," but I think Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" came on soooooo much more.   (I didn't complain.)