Go Pokes!

Labor Day weekend and Uncle Tim is in town to visit. Ryan started school at NC State a few weeks ago. He was working the night shift and then going in to school during the day. One morning, he was sitting in the classroom with a bottle of root beer (side note: the little cafe/kiosk in the college of management had our favorite kind of root beer that we found once, randomly, in a Wegman's in NJ, so he was very excited). Anyways, you can imagine what his classmates thought when they entered and saw a very tired person, which can be confused with inebriation, (or so I'm told) drinking what appeared to be a bottle of beer at 8:30am in the classroom. Explaining that it was root beer only led to others to wonder who would want to drink root beer so early in the morning. Only after learning that he had been up since the night before did their looks of curiousity go away. He didn't bother retelling his circumstances to everyone, so there were people who were very confused throughout classes that day.

Fortunately, Friday was his last day of work, so he was looking forward to a very long and restful weekend. We all celebrated on Saturday morning when he came home from his last night shift (Woohoo!) by stocking the fridge with all kinds of soda and making lots of great gameday foods - wings, chips, queso, salsa, burgers, etc - and watching Grayson's first Cowboys football game on TV! We were really pumped that the Pokes were televised. Once the caffeine and adrenaline from a new football season wore off, Ryan crashed pretty hard. Grayson is really taking a liking to "Ride 'em Cowboys", though, and enjoyed Uncle Tim singing and bouncing him on his knee