We met a bunch of Katie's former co-workers there, and our friends Kevin and Kyle met us as well. It was great to see both our friends and Katie's old AEP co-workers. Then we headed to our friend's house (Ashley and Craig), where we were staying for the weekend. They used to live next to us at Victorian Gate in Columbus, but they had just bought a house in Dublin. Their house-warming party was Friday night, and a bunch of Katie's college friends came over - Sarah, Lisa W., Matt and Lisa B. Also attending were Joey, Kathy and a new friend, Lilly, who was all of 8 days old at this point!
6 Labyrinth Ladies with the newest Labyrinth Lady - Lilly
The next morning, Katie dropped Charlie off at the Varsity Club around noon so he could hang out with some old friends from KPMG and to watch the Michigan game. Charlie was in quite a good mood because Michigan won. Ohio State was playing Wisconsin and it was a night game that didn't start till 8pm. Katie came around 5pm with our friends Gary and Heidi and Katie's friend from college, Sarah. Charlie and the KPMG crew were way ahead of us, so we tried to do some catching up. Varsity Club was packed as usual and a lot of fun. Charlie and Gary got a text from one of their fraternity brothers, Joel, that he was over at the Hiney-Gate. Sarah and Katie had fond memories of the Hiney-Gate when it was in front of the Holiday Inn with the Danger Brothers Band - Hiney-Gate is a long-standing Buckeye before and after the game tradition, sponsored by Heineken. Last year, they tore the Holiday Inn down and built a Dorm Hall there instead, so the Danger Brothers moved their show way up the road on Olentangy River Road. This year, they moved their show again to right behind the Varsity Club. Once we got there, we were a little disappointed....it definitely was not quite the same. The Danger Brothers are getting up there in age; they were still trying to rock and roll, but the location just made it feel a little different. We didn't stay very long and decided to go back to the Varsity Club, where we got a table inside and watched the game from there.
Well, not all of the game. Unfortunately for us, with 4 minutes ago and the score was 26-14 (OSU winning), we figured the game was over and the Burritos as Big as your Head were calling Charlie's name.
Please note - Charlie NEVER wants to leave a sporting event early, so this clearly can be blamed on the 12 hour day in combination with him missing La Bamba's. Anyways, after we left Varsity Club and started walking to La Bamba's, we heard everyone talking about the exciting end to the game...Wisconsin scored 2 touch-downs to actually take a 28-26 lead, then OSU scored again on hail mary to win the game. Our burritos tasted great though...Charlie missed them so much that he ordered two.
The next day we went to visit our good friends Bryan and Kristen who had a baby 6 weeks ago. We brought some skyline over for lunch. Charlie didn't understand why the baby couldn't eat skyline yet, so instead Kristen gave Charlie a bottle to feed baby Will.
Afterwords, we met Ashley, Craig, Gary and Sarah at Buffalo Wings and Rings to watch the Bengals game. It was fun watching the Bengals game with some friends because we don't get to see many of the Bengals games in Jersey. The Bengals pulled off a win against the Seahawks.
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