What a GREAT day!

 My Professor Plum costume.  I had too much fun with it!

In the immortal words of Princess Bride, "Let me 'splain. *pause*  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up."


Today was pretty much a blast.  I saw BYU kick Gonzaga's trash, went to a Clue party with an amazing costume, and welcomed the Cougar basketball team back home from their win.

I watched the second half of the game over at Jessica's boyfriend's sister's (how do you like that?!) house.  They had some people over and it was such a fun time.  We had the TV on the BYU game, and the iPhones on the Pitt game.  Add to the mix two babies, a toddler, and a HUGE golden retriever, and you get the best party ever!  It was so fun to watch the game with people who were as excited about BYU as I am.  Plus, everyone on the BYU team had a stellar game.  The shots were just falling for us.  So much fun to watch!

I had also gone to the house to get the finishing touches on my costume for our ward's Clue party.  I decided to go as Professor Plum.  I had a few items that I had borrowed from friends, and I snagged a mustache from a local costume shop.  Overall, I think it turned out well!

For the game, the ward reserved the Maeser building on BYU campus, and it was a PERFECT location for this!  It's one of the oldest buildings on campus, so it has a wood paneled auditorium with a stage (ballroom), a small library (obviously), a game room (billiard room), and rooms with comfy furniture (lounge). Some people dressed up as characters, others came in their normal clothes, but we split up

into groups and played the game amongst ourselves.  There were challenges in each room that we had to complete; things like naming books of literature from clues (king of felines, Prof. McGonagall, and a place to keep clothing = the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), having us solve logic puzzles, play a game of two truths and a lie, etc.  I was paired up with another girl in our ward dressed as Prof. Plum, and we tore it up!  We were able to find out the murderer, room, and weapon first.  Never mind that we cheated a bit . . .  :)

After the Clue game and some photo ops with other ward members, I headed home, fully intending to try and finish some homework.  Yeah.  That didn't happen.  Jess let me know that she and Andrew were headed out with Andrew's roommate Dan to the Provo airport.  They had found out that the BYU team was going to be flying in at 12:30 that night, and we decided to go cheer them on.

We got to the airport around 11:45, and found out the team was landing pretty soon.  We got a prime spot in the building to see the guys.  They walked right past us!  Jess decided to take pics and I did the video.  Unfortunately, the guys came through pretty quickly, so it was hard to get good pictures.  But check out the video of the gauntlet of fans the guys went through!

After the team went through, we headed outside, fully expecting the guys to already be on the bus home.  To our surprise, they were hanging out beside the doors, signing autographs and taking pictures.  With a LOT of help from Jess and her mad skills, we got some great pics:

 Us with Kyle Collinsworth (he just got his mission call to Russia, Cole!) and Stephen Rogers.

 Jackson Emery- defensive specialist.

 Noah Hartsock.  A lot taller than I thought.

 Charles "In Charge" Abouo.  The poor kid just kept looking around for his bags, and tried to take pics and sign autographs in between. 

Logan Magnusson.

It was such a blast hanging around with the players and reveling in the win.  Someone even drove by in a huge suburban that had BYU flags all over it, honking like crazy.  It was nice that the guys spent some time with the fans.  All of them played really well, and it was great to be able to cheer them home.  Unfortunately, Jimmer was nowhere to be found since he had a police escort get him right out of the building.  It's all right, though.  On the way home we decided that we would do this again for the team at the end of the next game- win or lose.  Anyone want to come?