Road to the Fiesta Bowl

Block party fun... Broncos style

There has to be about 100 bronco fans to every sooner fan. It's great! Let's just hope that means we have the crowd advantage during the game.

So, we showered and jumped on the bus and headed towards to New Year's Eve block party in Tempe. On the way, the door on the engine compartment fell off and was dragging behind the bus. In trying to find a place to pull over, the driver took an exit and now is lost.

WE MADE IT! WE MADE IT!!

We are in our room. It doesn't smell, and we actually get a hot shower! We're off in a few minutes to the block party.

THE destination

There it is!!! Fiesta Bowl Mecca....

Look closely

Can you find the palm tree cell tower? Not something you would find in Boise......

It's not the destination...

.. It's the journey, someone once said. Well, I can agree with that, for the most part. Don't think I would apply that thought to this journey. We are about 50 miles outside of Phoenix, so everyone is quite upbeat and excited right now. We were able to see some wonderful scenery along the way.

Earlier this morning someone said, in reference to our troubles, that if the Broncos win, we will have forgotten about all of the problems that we dealt with to get here. Deep down, in some spiritual sense, you kind of wonder if maybe, by some how, all this that we dealt with will help the Broncos win... The football gods looking down on us.

But, for right now, for us, it IS the destination, not the journey..

Bus woes update

In talking with the new driver, it appears that the busted hose might have been the result of the median island the first bus driver ran over on our way out from Boise. He said that would explain why the heater didn't work in the bus on the way down. Also, in talking with Monte (one of the organizers of this, um, 'trip') was following the bus in a van said that we hit it hard enough that sparks shot out from under the bus. Sounds like we were lucky that there wasn't any more damage than there was. Guess the driver didn't SEE the median island...

And, as I write this, a car cut in front if us and driver #4 had to slam on the brakes to avoid rear ending the car. Oh well, I'll just smile as best I can, look out the window and enjoy the scenery. I think I should have gone to church today.....