Still Stalling

Ahh I need more time to get you the recaps of the Final Four Festivities that you deserve.

Check out Butler's very own, Blue II. He has his own blog and gave an awesome recap from the festivities from his view right here!

Photo found here



And another found here

Bulldawg Videos to Make You Smile

While I try to buy myself some time on getting my recaps together from this weekends festivities, here's some great video clips.

The hubs and I were at Hinkle to witness this live


Blue 2 takes on Sparty!


This is in response to "Too Big Yo" which can be heard here

It's 7am and I Want To Go To Bed

As many of you know this weekend was an incredible weekend to be a Butler Alumni. I have so many photos and wonderful stories to share with you about our family trip to the Final Four in Indianapolis. I just don't know when I'll get to it. The hubs, Minne and I strolled into our home around 4 am, hit the bed for a few hours and got up just in time to make it to work. I am living on an Iced Grande Skinny French Vanilla Latte from Starbucks and plan on jumping to Redbull next. This week is a busy week between events at the United Center and Banana Republic. I promise I will update you as soon as I can.

In the meantime, hop on over to my girl laura's blog. I have no doubt that she will do some great recapping before I have the chance.

Real anxious

Photo from Blue2 himself, found here


I am writing this post a few days early. I know that a few minutes before game time my nervousness for tonight's game will be multiplied to the max. If tonight's game is anything like the games from the Elite 8 and the Sweet 16, I am guessing my stomache will be in knots, my limbs will be jittery, I may be struggling to keep myself from getting physically sick and my eyes will be watering with a mix of excitement and sickness all at the same time. I can only imagine how the players are handling the pressure of their first ever Final Four in their home city. If you're a friend of mine, please be a friend of the dawgs and send all your good luck wishes to their hometown, Indianapolis.

Cheers,

J+K

Today is going to be a super busy day revolved around Butler + Indianapolis + Basketball + Final Four. I don’t think I could get much happier.

But first!! I have exciting news. The hubs and I are going to be meeting my friend’s new fella (I talked about it in depth here).



On top of it, this will be the last time I see my friend before she departs to North Carolina to set up her new life ::sigh::



So here’s to a great morning and a great start of a fabulous weekend, and a fabulous life for the 2 of them. Cheers to a fellow Bulldawg, a great friend, a sister and her new love.

Even Grandma Loves the Dawgs

Dear Butler Basketball team,

Check out the awesome photo of my grams in Florida. It's hot outside but she's still sporting her Butler hoody. She sends all of her wishes and best of luck for this weekends game from the sunshine state!

Indy Final Four 2006

In 2006 I was a senior at Butler when the Final Four rolled into town, I should say rolled over it. Literally, the entire city of Indianapolis becomes the final four, garbage cans on the street start to look like basketball hoops and everyone has college spirit. The feeling of a Final Four in one’s city is amazing and it can spread like wildfire.

I was blessed in 2006 with knowing almost everyone in Indy, it is a small city right? (I say that half jokingly since I am from Chicago – I do love Indy, don’t get me wrong.)

Well, by knowing lots of people I ended up working all the days of the Final Four festivities. One third of the time I was working for Radio Disney at the NCAA Hall of Champions. It was a really cool experience and I had a lot more interaction with all the little kiddos, even if they aren’t old enough to appreciate basketball, they sure love the Mickey ears! While working, I was able to see a lot of the NCAA and the Hall of Champions, it was a really cool experience.

Another third of the time was spent earning some major cash working as a “show model” in the convention center for the DiGiorno Booth. Look at this photo and try not to laugh please! The money was good and when I got hungry, there was always pizza!



The last third of the time was spent volunteering as part of the Local Organizing Committee. One of my professors who I spoke about here helped to make it all happen. I was housed for most of the time during the games at the media information and hospitality booth.



Here I got to see Indy Icon Peyton Manning and past UCLA Bruin Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.





I was also able to get some behind the scene tours. In fact, I even woke up super early to watch the lights turn on in Indy with the Mayor. It was fantastic. I also enjoyed checking out the press conference background here:



After some networking events with the committee I may have stumbled into Nicki Blains where Coldplay's Chris Martin's gave a private show:



But one of may favorite parts was attending the game with my mom. At the last minute my professor was able to get us tickets and my mom happened to be driving through Indy on her way home from an ICE competition with my little sister. So Mom and I watched Florida take on UCLA. Sadly, the annoying Gator fans with all their gator chopping won but the experience was still super cool.



I am sure this years Final Four in Indy won't be anything like the last. Instead of working and volunteering, I am selfishly going to enjoy all of the events with my hubs and local friends (my hubs missed out on the last experience as he was already living and working in Minnesota). Also, instead of being in the RCA Dome the events will be housed in the fairly new Lucas Oil Stadium which I have yet to see so we are pumped about that. PLUS I know this will be an even better trip than the last time because I will get to see my college team, on my ground, with my friends and the entire city's support. I look forward to sharing many photos after this weekends festivities and have nothing but great feelings about the weekend. The hubs and I will be leaving after work to make the drive back to Indiana, it will be worth every mile driven. Way to go Butler and GO Dawgs!