Final Four; Bracket Town, well sort of

I write this post with a lot of discouragement. You see, the hubs and my sis-in-law left Butler and headed downtown to enjoy some of the Bracket Town festivities. We took over 100 awesome photos and almost all of them from today came out like this:


I am trying not to get to down on myself because we did end up with a few other cool photos, so here goes the rest of our awesome day.

As we left Butler we were able to catch a glimpse of the Butler excitement outside of campus. Buildings had special notes and signs and some even made their own Final Four decorations:



We found some great parking and made our way into the convention center to check out the Final Four festivities at Bracket Town. The hubs and sis were able to play lots of pop-to-shot, we checked out the new 3D LG TV, ate lots of junk food and took many silly photos ::frown:: but we did have to spend time finding all the statues that represented our schools.


We also made a stop to the huge Bracket Town Bracket, the hubs and sister had a little trouble finding their schools on the map (Purdue & Indiana) but don't worry, Butler was easy to spot:


After we saw everything that we could, we made our way over to Lucas Oil Stadium to check out the Senior All Star Game. We saw this guy a few times throughout the weekend:


Before we made it into Lucas Oil, we made a quick pit stop by the hotel where our friend was staying. We helped her carry in some of our items. It was here that the hubs was carrying in one of our friends dresses. Butler player Veasley told the hubs that he didn't have the legs for that dress (ohhh burn) It was funnier than I write it, I promise. On our way out of the room we ran into Coach Stevens who looked exhausted. He asked where we were headed and when we told him back out to the streets he warned us of the craziness. From there, we continued to the All Star game.

It was our first time in the new stadium. The inside was as big of a beast as the outside, check it out:


We made our way to some empty seats and started watching team Reeces take on team Herseys. Obviously, we had to cheer on team Reeces since the hubs player was representing, check the stats for Kramer below. It was also nice to have a little time with a dear friend and the sis.


During the halftime performance, we got to see a little dance off between the Indiana mascots.


Butler got knocked out early but Purdue Pete held his own. He made it to the finals where he lost to what I believe was the ISU mascot?


After the game we were pooped but we did manage to find a hubs look-a-like, or so he thinks anyway:


We drove the sis back home but had to make a dinner pit stop at the hubs favorite dinner location, Chilis. We consumed lots of their famous skillet queso dip. Fromt here we made our way to a friends house to dog sit and prep for the big game the next day.