Corndog Nation

     On Thursday night, my mom came to visit me for my birthday that was on Friday and bring my winter coats to Auburn.  I felt kind of sad knowing that I didn't have much time to spend with her, because band was over at 5 and my lab was at 7 that night.  We ate at a place called Amsterdam, and before I knew it, it was time for her to leave.  The thought of being away from home on my birthday made me a little down, because I've always been surrounded by my family and friends.  I thought that Friday wouldn't be a good day at all, but the AUMB proved me wrong!  They were all so kind, and to my surprise, lots of people knew it was my birthday (thanks, facebook haha).  By the way, thanks to everyone that wished me a happy birthday on facebook... I wanted to reply back but it is too difficult to type to everyone from my phone!  I really appreciate it. Somehow I ended up with 2 seats to myself, so I actually got a little rest.  We watched Blazing Saddles and Toy Story 3 (This movie almost made me cry... so sweet!) while we headed to stay in New Orleans for the night.  Whenever we arrived, we changed into cute clothes and headed out into the city!  We ate at a place called Mulates and got some authentic New Orleans grub.

      I split a sampler with a friend and it had fried mushrooms, calamari, crawfish, alligator, meat pies, frog legs, and catfish. The alligator tasted like rubbery chicken to me, so it wasn't a favorite.  I didn't really care for the meat pies either!  The frog legs were actually pretty good.  Everything else was delicious! So after that we headed to Bourbon Street.  I did not feel safe there at all (but you have to consider I'm not used to huge cities with sketchy people).

     My group all linked arms so that we wouldn't get separated by the large crowd of people.  As we walked, I saw a few things that saddened me.  I had no idea that Bourbon Street had so many stripper joints.  There were literally posters on the buildings that had theme of the girl you could "order".  I saw alot more than that, but I don't think it would be very internet appropriate.  From there, we walked to Jackson Square to Cafe Du Monde to get beignets!  They were delicious... they're pretty much just like funnel cakes.  I bit into one and powdered sugar flew all over my coat and into my face.  We had to be back to the midnight, so we quickly walked back to the hotel!

     I didn't get alot of sleep that night, I guess I was just too wound up! We had to be at the buses at 6:45 to head to Baton Rouge to practice at a high school stadium.  At about 11, we headed to LSU.  There were literally people standing on the side of the road giving us the thumbs down, or better yet flicking us off (counted to 10 people then gave up haha). I mean come on people, we are only the band... and they knew that, we had a sign in our window saying so.  But I LOVED seeing Auburn people run to our buses and jump up and down while we were traveling and shake their pom poms and yell "War Eagle!!" Going to LSU really made me appreciate Auburn and the people that go here.  We never treat our guests like that.  Whenever we got out of the buses, we had police officers help protect us.  Thankfully, there were no episodes where the the fans tried to harm us... they were just obnoxious.  lol!  I wouldn't say all LSU fans are obnoxious, every team has their good and bad fans.  I do think they overall enjoyed our Western themed show... I looked up into the audience and saw many smiles, and they didn't boo us like I thought they might... they applauded!  We had many LSU fans to approach us and tell us that they really enjoyed our show and say that we were a good band!

     So now it's back to the normal... it feels so good to be back in Auburn :) (by the way, if you're wondering about the title, everyone says that LSU fans smell like corndogs... even though they didn't really smell like that to me, it's all in good fun :) )