Oh, Wyoming.

Austin and I decided to go to a University of Wyoming Cowboys game because Austin is an avid fan, and I have never gotten to sit down and just watch a football game live. (I worked

BYU Concessions but only got

to catch snip-its.) The Cowboys were going to play USU which is in Logan, Utah --only 2.5 hours away. So we dressed up in our brown and yellow, and went for it! I burned a CD full of music, and we had a fun roadtrip. 2.5 hours isn't too bad when you're used to driving everywhere in Idaho! The Cowboys immediately scored a touch down, and then kicked a ball which was still live. They scored another touch down right then. We were going nuts.... until as Austin describes it on FB:

wyoming you officially had some huge problems. And by the way trying to run the same play over and over is not a good way at trying to score points. They figured out that you were going to throw to number 6 after the second time. And yet you tried it all night long.

And that is what Austin looked like as he saw his team get all blowed up. We left the end of the third quarter when it was 56-19. Sad, sad, day.

But! We got kettle corn, and enjoyed ourselves. We even ate at the IHOP we met at in Logan when we were living apart. It was a fun experience, and I played Smash Brothers on the Wii with Austin to cheer him up haha! (He was fine btw...)

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