- Getting up before the crack of dawn
- Dragging all the comforts of your living room (including your flat screen TV and satellite dish) outside
- Setting up a camp kitchen in the middle of a university campus
- Watching people from 18 - 80 drink copious amounts of alcohol starting at 7am
- Knowing where there are non port-a-pottie restrooms on campus
- Watching random football games on TV outside all day (my suggestion for watching Saturday morning cartoons was shut down)
- In our case on Saturday, huddling under the pop-up tent waiting for the rain to stop so that we could pack up our outdoor living room and go to the actual game where the actual team who we were going to root on was actually playing
- One thing that it does not necessarily need to entail is tailgates--who knew?!?
Now, I know that that list above doesn't really include many activities that I would normally enjoy. However...I love doing new things and experiencing new things and the people that I was tailgating with were fantastic and so I had a great time. It was homecoming weekend at USC and so the campus was packed with people having a good time. After we packed up our tailgating gear, we followed the mass exodus of people through campus, kicked the base of a flag pole at the edge of campus on Exposition Boulevard to ensure good luck for the football team at the game, and then watched USC humiliate Washington by winning 56-0. I thought the stadium (Coliseum) was very cool and the view from our seats was awesome--not only could we clearly see the field, but we could also see the downtown LA skyline and the mountains. I'm not a huge football fanatic, so the most excited I got at the game was when USC's mascot, Traveler, the white horse, rode around the stadium after USC scored. He was so pretty!
All in all, it was a fun day with fun people and I'm glad that I got to experience tailgating and college football West coast style.
