Road Trip!

Whew, what a whirlwind, the first half of October I was on the road - 6 Big Ten campuses in 8 days. First I went to Michigan State. I got to tailgate and see the band. I tried to play tuba.

Oops, wrong end…let’s try that again.

Maybe next year I’ll have it figured out and be good enough to actually make the band.

Check out this Harley! I think I need some sunglasses to keep glare and bugs out of my eyes, and a leather jacket to keep my fur from getting nappy and my bones in tact in case I crash. Maybe I should take a driving lesson. Oh, and insurance is a must, I wonder if Gieco is so easy a sheep can do it???

The next weekend, I got to go on a Mini Big Ten Road Trip. I went to FIVE schools in one weekend.

First I went to Illinois, I got into the bottom of the press box and got stuck in some dried corn. I tried to go upstairs, but there was some homecoming event for big-wig donors who were probably actually Illinois fans. Phooey.

The next day I went to Indiana.

The Iowa band was there too. Tailgating wasn’t as fun this week and I had to stay in the car because I didn’t have a ticket to the game. At least the Hawks won.

Next stop of the day was West Lafayette. Purdue’s press box looks an awful lot like Iowa’s…

They wouldn’t let me upstairs either, something about a wedding or something else equally silly.

After the stadium, we went to Harry’s Chocolate Shop, it’s listed as the best grub at Purdue, according to the book Big Ten Country. No chocolate there, not even shakes, just a bar with burgers and pizza. What a misnomer.

The next day, Sunday, was the Chicago Marathon. I didn’t run it, but I watched part of it. While 10,000+ saps were running 26.2 miles I was exploring Chicago!

First I saw the giant bean.

Then I was going to look at the WIRED exhibition, but the sign outside said there were sheep at work. Since I do enough work during the week, I didn’t want to get confused as part of the help. I took some pictures, then high tailed it out of there.

I went to lunch at the British pub Elephant and Castle. They had some strange art on the wall.

After the marathon ended, we went to Northwestern. We couldn’t get in their stadium at all.

That made four stadiums in two days, but I wanted to get ONE more, so after the long car ride back, I went over to Kinnick.

I couldn’t get in the press box there either, but at last my Big Ten whirl-wind mini tour had ended.