"lasts"

This weekend was my LAST football game as a Clemson student. How very sad, not to mention a very brutal loss to Carolina 29-7. I had great seats though in the Sigma Chi block, which was great as always with good friends and good ole Tiger passion.

Unfortunately though, we're probably going to go to a really crappy bowl, like the Meinke bowl, which stinks (but not more than Parker does!)

I'll go backwards from here...

I went home to Charleston Tuesday night for Thanksgiving, only to return less than 3 days later for the rivalry game. Wednesday for dinner, Jim's family came and Mom made Salmon and we had pecan pie. Yum! Jim's son, Jim came with his wife Migle and son Kostas (who live in Stuttgart, Germany) as well as Jim's other son, Chris and his daughter Emily. Cameron came over and we had a great time. And then I had drinks with Madeline and Ellen--we went to Social and the Rooftop above Market Pavilion Hotel. Some good wine. (I should've made a stop to Charleston Beer Exchange while I was home to grab some sweet beers, but I forgot, oops).

Thursday was Thanksgiving, so we all did our traditional morning Turkey Trot 5k run, probably the HOTTEST thanksgiving run I've ever had, like 75 degrees and sunny, whoo. I ran the 2 miles, walked some, just wasn't feeling it after some wine last night. Finished it, went to the beer truck and then we went to Circa 1886 (like we usually do) for Breakfast with Dad and Linn and the family. Man, I've sure missed those croissants and missed Miss Betty this year :(

We headed to "the country" (Linn's sister Elizabeth's house) for a rousing game of flag football (yet another tradition). My team won 5-2 (I think?). No thanks to me, I might add, it was incredibly hot and the boys were handling much of the hard labor of the game. I wish I could list the seemed-like 100 people there Thursday, but that's too much to handle between family, friends, adopted-orphans, but seriously though, there were probably 30 people there! We had everything imaginable for food options. Venison stew, baked and fried turkey, mashed potatoes and rice, oyster and regular stuffing, green bean casserole, and more. It was absolutely delicious and for the first time ever in my thanksgiving, I didn't go for a second serving (although my plate was stacked pretty high the first go-round). Not to forget the five pies: Pecan, pumpkin, pumpkin and coconut, peanut butter, cheesecake and Ambrosia cake that Linn made for Elizabeth's early birthday celebration.

The food was filling, the wine was flowing, and the laughs were unstoppable.

Headed back to Clemson friday morning after wonderful mother-daughters-time with Mom and Cameron. We got pedis and manis (very much needed after cramming my feet in the most beat up cowboy boots you've ever seen for far too long).

Last Saturday was the Wake Forest away game, so I stayed in Clemson and participated in the Fall Crawl. It's like our Senior Walk in the spring, basically a bar crawl for anyone at Clemson that's 21 and wants to do it. It's pretty awesome. I stayed mostly in my same areas so I could just watch football all day at Loose Change and Wingin' It--no surprise there. Some of the boys were playing Beer Golf (maybe the best game ever), so I did some assisting there, haha. It was a pretty great day all in all. 

I love Clemson, I do.

It's a disease, but a great one.

I can't believe I will be graduating in 19 days and leaving this beautiful place in 21 days.

Lots of lasts these next few weeks. So sad.

4 1/2 years flew by. I can't believe it.

More to come. Love you all.