Wine and Basketball

Because don't those go together?

C of I hosted the George Wolf Tournament this last weekend and on Friday night, I met up with Abbey and Yosh in downtown Caldwell as Coyotes Wine on the Creek. I was a little late because there was NO place to park. Apparently it was "light up Caldwell" or something like that and people were all over the place waiting to see the lights up on down on Indian Creek. What a chance from when I was a freshmen and downtown was a kinda creepy place.

Anyway, we felt a little out of place- we didn't know whether to order at the counter or where to get the appetizers. We sent Jon to do everything because he was the guy- Abbey and I never claimed to be feminists :) We eventually got a local Bitner cab and some yummy appetizers- a cheese and salami platter with apples and bread, and some delicious bruschetta with goat cheese. Once we got the wine and food, things were better. There was some great people watching opportunities, including this jazz singer with sunglasses on inside (we kept singing "I wear my sunglasses at night") and his sound technician who was totally singing along. He wasn't bad but as usual when there is a person singing, it's hard to talk. We did get to see, from the inside, all the lights go on, which made Caldwell look almost like a quaint little town in a movie. Again, how things have changed since freshmen year!

We went straight over to the game afterwards but since we were late, by the time we got there, the box office was closed and Abbey and Jon got in for free. (And that is a run-on sentence worthy of my students!). The game was soooo frustrating, as usual. We were ahead at halftime and then just fell apart. Jon was NOT pleased so Abbey and I amused ourselves with people-watching. There was this awkward exchanging of keychains or something ceremony between the volleyball teams at halftime and we commented on a) the awkwardness and b) the intense hair of this kind of red-headed girl on the other team. When she later came out with it all up on her head, she looked like a turkey. Gobble gobble. We ended up losing by like a TON (which was so different from the following game where we won by over 50 and it was kinda embarassing by the end) but it was so great to hang out with Jon and Abbey. I have such wonderful friends!