Last night was alumni night at the basketball game between LU and VMI. Thanks to Tim, who is an LU graduate school alumnus, we were able to get into the game for just $5 a ticket. We drove up to Liberty early enough to have dinner with Emily and Nick. After supper, while Laurie and Emily grabbed coffee in one of the student centers, the guys went to the basketball game.

We had pretty good seats in the alumni section. We were up a little high, but in the middle of the arena. There’s really not a bad seat anywhere in the Vine Center. We had only been sitting down for about two minutes when some guy walked up to Nick and asked him if we would like to sit down on the couch at court side. Would we? Are you kidding? Heck yeah! The only thing the guy needed was Tim’s name and the year he graduated from LU. He escorted us down to the couch. Along with being right at court side, LU also provided us with complimentary pop corn and soda. It was really cool!

Unfortunately, LU got spanked pretty badly by VMI. But as an extra bonus, we were surrounded by a small group of very vocal students from VMI. I’m not sure which was more entertaining – the basketball game itself, or the verbal sparring that went on all game long between the students from the different schools. They were hilarious! We had a blast!