From The Ground Up: All We Do is WIN, WIN, WIN

Well, we did it!!! The Auburn Tigers are the 2010 National Champions! What an incredible season! It truly is GREAT to be an AUBURN TIGER!

Jep and I were lucky enough to make the trip out to Glendale to cheer our team on to a victory. And, WOW--what an experience it was to be out there to be a part of such an exciting event. It really is hard to put into words how amazing our trip was!

We arrived on Saturday and got a head start exploring the Glendale area as well as the stadium before the massive crowds arrived.

Our welcome signs from Grandma

Westgate City Center

Gameday Eve Jep and I did some more exploring and headed out to Scottsdale. It was so packed because of the Auburn and Oregon Pep Rallys. So, we found the least crowded bar which happened to be a little Chinese restaurant--which was much better because we were able to get served right away rather than waiting in 40 minute lines.

Jep having a shot of Jager for Uncle Rick

On our way back to Glendale we caught this gorgeous ORANGE and BLUE sunset!

Later, we met up with Kyle, Amy, and Adam. We spent the night hanging out at McFadden's in Westgate, the designated Auburn bar. It was so much fun celebrating with so many other Auburn fans--there were a lot of WAR EAGLES being yelled and definitely a fair amount of Bodda-Getta cheers being led.

And finally, the day we had all been waiting for arrived!! It was NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMEDAY!! We got up early so we could head out to start partaking in the festivities.

Before we headed out we took some pictures outside of our wonderful hostess' (my grandma) house.

After some picture taking we were off to the stadium to start our tailgating. We couldn't believe the amount of people who were already out there and every bar/restaurant was packed to the brim! We opted to pay $20 for some wristbands to get into a roped off area that had food and drink stands along with a live band that was much less crowded than the bars.

Jep and I took a gamble and decided we would try to get tickets from scalpers before the game. Well, tickets were still going for $2,000/piece for UPPER level 15 minutes before kickoff so we decided to forego spending that kind of money on tickets and just try to find a good place to watch the game. Lucky for us, there was a huge jumbo-tron right in the heart of Westgate. Jep found some empty beer boxes and made us some seats and we were set. We watched the game with thousands of other fans without tickets and had the BEST time. It was like a huge Auburn party and everyone was best friends!