Beating up the 'Noles

Last weekend John and I took one of our first road trips from our new home in Charleston. We love weekend road trips and have several close-to-Charleston getaway spots on our list for this year (including Harry Potter world!!) We didn't do much sightseeing this time though because this trip was all about SOONER FOOTBALL!

We hadn't been to an OU football game since the 2009 season. When we lived in Oklahoma, we went to every game. So this long hiatus has been hard (especially on John). So when the Sooners traveled to Tallahassee to play FSU, we couldn't miss our only opportunity this year to yell "BOOMER SOONER!" in person.

After staying the night with John's cousin Jerry in Jacksonville, we headed into Tallahassee early Saturday morning so we could be at Game Day.

We're coming...to your city! (John's fav show)

Though you see a lot of crimson in this picture, don't be fooled. There were very few Sooner fans at Game Day and we were outnumbered by the 'Noles, who you can see were also excited to be there (cell phone pic!)

After sticking around to watch Corso pick the Sooners to win (yeah!), we headed over to the OU camp, the parking lot of the convention center, where Sooner tailgates and RVs were plentiful. We joined in on Chesapeake's tailgate, where they had three large screen TVs showing other games and were giving away free food and drinks (Thanks Chesapeake!)

We spent most of the afternoon there meeting other East Coast Sooner fans who were just as excited as we were to be there. Even the band stopped by the play "Boomer Sooner!"

So good to see the Pride of Oklahoma again :)

And we met Sooner, who also stopped by the tailgate.

Kendall and Blake, our friends from Birmingham who also went to OU, made the trip for the FSU game, too. We had a great time hanging out with them again at the Chesapeake tailgate!

Me and John outside the stadium heading into the game.

All the crimson and garnet makes it hard to tell who are Sooner fans and who are Seminole fans.

FSU's famous Osceola and his fiery spear during pre-game.

After a mix of anxiously biting my nails and victory dancing with the big Sooner fan sitting next to me, the Sooners (barley) pulled out the win! Phew! Sure glad we didn't have to hang our heads on the 7 hour drive home the next day.

There's only 1 Oklahoma!

(John loves the Sooners so much, he let the sun paint his face crimson)