4 blissful years! And South Beach...

In an effort to stay sane in Waco, we dipped into our savings to splurge on something near and dear to both of our hearts: Hokie Football! We flew to Miami for our third visit to the Orange Bowl together. A great fact about the trip is that we started dating 4 years ago when we drove from Blacksburg to see the 2002 Hokies lose in a shootout to the offensive juggernaut of Ken Dorsey and Willis McGahee. In any case, we flew into MIA Friday afternoon after leaving Love Field in the Morning. We got a free upgrade in our rental car to a Ford Taurus (Thank you USAA and AVIS!) with a nice engine and 1900 miles on it. After checking into the dumpiest La Quinta we had ever come across (it was cheap!) we headed out to South Beach to hook up with some awesome Hokies. Bic, CJ, Jennie and a few other Tubas came down, and Sarah and JJ were in town as well. We enjoyed seeing them, but found South Beach to be a hyped up drinking spot meant to get money out of drunken tourists... Much like Bourbon Street and Key West. We didn't mind for the evening if it meant being with friends. Bic was excited about finding some random bar serving all you could drink beers a homeless guy told him about. We told him the homeless guy was probably exaggerating, but Bic claimed he quizzed the man on the past three VT-Miami scores and believed him to be legit. Well, lo and behold we actually found the bar, and it looked WAY sketchy. As we had unders with us we decided it was better to not go in, to the disappointment of Bic. What makes this a great story is that we ended up running into the homeless guy again, and we had to admit that he was right. Almost anyone we met who knew what a Hokie was admitted that we should win the football game. Apparently they did not know that Hokies often have a hard time winning games they should... But we had a great night and grabbed a ton of sleep.