The first game of the season might be the biggest game ever in Lane Stadium. This year we play the National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes. We went to Ohio last year and walked away with a victory and the Buckeyes only loss last season. So there was a lot on the line this year.
Our great friend, Tim made the trip to watch the big game and while Jed was hard at work getting ready for the game, Tim and I explored campus and found fun things we never knew were there.
In typical fashion, the day of the game we tailgated and hung out with fellow Hokies before heading into the stadium for all the fun.
Unfortunately, we were not victorious this year but we put up a good fight.
We are very excited for the season and looking forward to many more games ahead.
The biggest game of the season this year is Ohio State so Derley, Danielle & I had to make the trip. We were really excited about this trip but were a little worried what the fans would be like. We had heard both good and bad things butt when we read this article, we knew it was going to be a fantastic trip. So after work on Friday, we drove up to Columbus, Ohio. Friday evening we spent hanging out in the hotel and grabbing dessert.
Three kinds of pizookies!!
Saturday morning, Jed, Megan, Sophie, Derley, Danielle & I all piled into our car to go explore a little bit. Our first stop was breakfast at First Watch.
It was pretty good and almost everyone was super nice to us. After breakfast we decided to drive around campus to check it all out and then ended our morning adventure with weird fields of corn and Graeter's ice cream.
We dropped off Jed, Megan and Sophie back at the team hotel and Derley, Danielle & I took off to explore more, find parking and get ready for the game. We ended up spending the afternoon exploring campus, meeting some really nice and fun people and learning a lot about all things Ohio State.
Our new Ohio State friends
Derley works with a handful of people that went to Ohio State and they told her she HAD to go to the Skull Session which we did and it was really cool. The old building that they use was super hot and packed an hour before the session. Thankfully we were given a heads up and knew to get there early.
After the skull session, we headed over to the stadium, took a quick walk around it and headed in to the game.
These guys really have a lot of this down to a science. It was all really well done and we had a great time.
The first half was fun and exciting and Derley and I were super excited to watch the TBDBITL at half time.
We were in total and complete shock at the end of the game as the time ticked to 0:00 with the score 35-21 Virginia Tech!
We made all kinds of new friends around us in the Tech section of the game. We were all so excited and shocked at the win.
Steve, Sarah & I
After the game, I was able to meet up with some old friends from Tech that live in Columbus now. But before we headed back to the car, we had to go see the team getting on the bus and cheer them on.
On our way back, we even ran into some band people and they were nice enough to get pictures with us!
Back home they were celebrating in the streets and waited up for the team when they got back at 4am to celebrate with them in Blacksburg. We even considered for a moment driving back immediately but knew that would be a terrible idea. We all hated to miss the parties in Blacksburg but we were pretty excited that we were able to watch the game live and experience the Horseshoe and Ohio State University.
