We Came, We Saw, We Ate at Emerils

As most or all of you know, Blaine and I went to the Sugar Bowl last night, and it was awesome. I'm sure all of you know by now that Utah (the underdogs) ended up beating Alabama 31-17. Well that was just the end of great night, so let me start at the beginning.

Because going to the Sugar bowl was an early anniversary for us (Our anniversary is actually February 2, but we decided to celebrate it a month early because of the game) we started off the night by going to one of Emeril Lagasse's restaurants. The food there was absolutely awesome. I had the red snapper and Blaine had the scallops. We both enjoyed our meals immensely and ended up sharing some banana cream pie for desert. If any of you ever get to New Orleans, I would highly suggest Emeril's restaurants.

(Heather in front of Emeril's restaurant, you can't really tell what it
is when you pass it on the street, we almost walked right past it. )

But that was only the start of the night, after eating we headed over to the Superdome. That place is huge. Outside of the Superdome there was bands and a lot of people having a huge party. You could definately tell that everyone was excited about the game. The Alabama fans definately outnumbered the Utah ones, but we proudly wore our red. Alabama is Crimson, so the colors were close, but still different.

(Blaine at the party outside the Superdome, he didn't have his
Utah sweatshirt on yet because it was like 70 degrees outside and very humid)

Once we got into the Superdome they had the 2 different schools' bands playing. It was a really exciting atmosphere.

(Utah's band spelling out "Utah." It's backwards in this picture
because we were on the opposite side of the stadium.)

When we first got in there we found out our seats were surrounded by Alabama fans. This confused us since when we bought our tickets we made sure that we were in the Utah section. We later found out that Alabama had run out of tickets on their own website so they had gone to Utah's site and bought out most of their tickets.

(Heather holding up our Sugar Bowl tickets.

(This picture shows the Utah section of fans. The rest of the stadium was full of Alabama fans with a few Utah fans, such as ourselves mixed in.)

Well since Blaine and I found ourselves the lone Utah fans mixed in with Alabama what did we do. We yelled, screamed, and cheered as loud as we could for our team. This was pretty easy to do, since the Alabama fans were silenced by the Utah football team when they scored 3 touchdowns in the first quarter. We were sooooo excited. We were just hoping that Utah would be able to give Alabama a good game, we never expected them to come out and totally dominate.

(Blaine and Heather)

Although we got a little nervous at the beginning of the 3rd quarter when Alabama came within 3, the score was 21-17, Utah fought back and didn't let Alabama score another point and ended up winning the game 31-17. YEAH FOR UTAH!!! Needless to say we were very glad that we bought tickets to the game. We had a blast.

(The Utah football team on the field after winning the game)

I do have to give credit to the Alabama fans though. They were very nice even after the loss, several of them came up to us and congratulated us on a good game. I have never seen such great sportsmanship.

(Blaine and Heather after the Utah win)

(A shot of the award podium, even thought we did not stay to watch the actual presentation.)

It was an absolutely awesome night. The University of Utah now has a perfect record for the year (13-0), and showed some of these big football schools that we are able to compete on their level.

GO UTES!!!