Well we have just been busy, busy, busy. This past weekend the MSU woman’s club water polo team participated in the Big 10 championship tournament. So we went traipsing on down to Columbus, Ohio, for the tournament. Little did we know that it was the spring kick off game for next fall’s football season. It was Ohio State first string playing Ohio State second string. They had a record number of fans to watch this fratricide. Like a sellout crowd to watch Ohio State beat Ohio State. Yeeeeaaaah, we won. Wait, didn’t we lose too? A few too many concussions out there in football land I think.
The girls did good. They came in second, losing the championship game to the Satan’s Seven, the University of Michigan team. The Michigan team is really good, but except for one really bad quarter, our girls held their own. They lost by three but two of those Michigan goals were flukes.
Ohio State aquatic center. Notice the lack of football fans.
Great offense.
Tenacious defense.
Happy girls.
Despite coming in second, we had a pretty good time. The Ohio State campus is more fun than MSU by an order of magnitude. Lots of brew pubs, coffee shops, restaurants, and funky stores. The award for best store name goes to the gay thrift shop called “Out of the Closet.” That my friend, is hilarious.
Out of the closet.
Skyler, a friend of Molly’s since kindergarten, is going to Ohio State. He gave us a tour and introduced us to Jeni’s Ice Cream. Just to show how unfair life is, Columbus has both Graeter’s Ice Cream and Jeni’s. This is the one-two punch of the ice cream world. How’d that Tennessee Ernie Ford song go, “One fist of iron, the other of steel. If the right one don’t get you, the left one will.” The right flavor from either one of these will take you down and you won’t know what hit you. But for some reason you’ll be begging for more. Just like a good plate of scrapple.
Lise and I are headed to St. Louis for the weekend to see Stefan. It’s been a few years since we’ve been there. I thought I would drag out a couple pictures of the St. Louis Arch from our last visit to get into the mood.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 