Guys’ Night Out
Christy took Aly to a performance of The Nutcracker tonight. They got all dressed up and went out for a night on the town. I’ll post pictures as soon as they’re developed. They looked quite beautiful!
So – it was time for the guys to hang out together. I took Aiden to a pizza joint and we shared a small pizza. We had a good talk about his favorite meals (his favorite lunch = bologna and cheese; favorite dinner = couldn’t get an answer), what we should get the girls for Christmas, and some silly stuff that really can’t be explained in type.
Then we went to a Milligan men’s basketball game. I was planning on taking him anyway, but we received a card this week in the mail. Conveniently, tonight’s game was a special Alumni game – free admission for the family and free food…what more could two guys ask for?
I remember going to UE basketball games a lot as a kid. I always wanted to have Aiden grow up with that kind of atmosphere. This was the time when the Aces were good – I remember going to their first appearance in the NIT, and it was a huge deal. I remember names like Marty Simmons, Curtis Jackson, Dan Godfread, Sascha Hupmann, Olaf Blab, and Scott Haffner. Remembering the energy of the crowd still makes the hairs on my neck stand up straight. Going to Aces games with my family is a fond memory that I will continue to cherish. While the Milligan atmosphere isn’t near the energy of those games at Roberts Stadium, it’s a definite start. I’ll gladly take Aiden to as many Buffalo basketball games as he’d like while we’re down here.
Aiden wanted to meet the Milligan Buffalo mascot, but he kept getting too scared. Finally, after the game, the mascot got him to trade high fives.
I saw a few of the girls from the youth group I led in my past life as a student minister. I’ve been here a year and a half, and it’s still weird to me that I had to come to upper east Tennessee to see students I had in Indy. It’s really weird that one of the guys from my youth group is in most of my classes at school! I struggle to figure out how involved I should be in their lives – or if they even want me involved anymore. I mean, I haven’t been their youth minister for over three years. I still care about them and want to know how they’re doing. I pray for them often and I know that God has great things planned for them!
I got to talk to Abby tonight. We have run into each other several times since our family moved down here, but haven’t really been able to catch each other up on things other than through short emails. We really need to follow-up and have her and the other Milliganites over for dinner sometime next semester. I’ve said that every semester we’ve been here, but this time I’m serious!
Milligan beat up Virginia-Wise. That made the night even more worth it!
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