Fall Break, Michigan Style

Fall Break was definitely too short. After less than 48 hours in Orlando, I hopped on a plane Friday at 11:50am, flew to Charlotte, got on another plane to Indy and was in my car by 4:45pm. I spent the next 5.5 hours hustling it up to the Detroit airport to pick up my friend Kyle, who was visiting for the weekend from DC (mostly to see the football game, I'm sure). The weekend was fun, although, again, way too short. I got to go to the casinos in Detroit (twice), freeze my butt off at the Michigan/Minnesota game (5-0 in the Big Ten!!!), watch the Mud Bowl (undergrads have some pretty questionable traditions), and enjoy some yummy meals courtesy of Kyle's parents (Kyle's youngest sister is a freshman and it was parents' weekend, so I got to spend a good chunk of time with two-thirds of the Mulgrew clan). I also spent way more time than I would have watching baseball playoffs, but that's my own fault for associating with Red Sox fans. Here are a few pictures from the weekend. Clearly, not great weather in the Ann Arbor area, but it was pretty much par for the course for the entire break.
MudBowl. Two frats playing touch football in the mud. It was raining and super cold. Honestly, what's the appeal?

Don't we look so cool in our matching sweatshirts?

Great final scoreboard, but take a look at the weather surrounding the scoreboard.

Once I dropped Kyle at the airport Sunday night, it was back to reality. Classes started again today, and even though I'm only taking 3 courses, it's still going to be a lot of work. The upside? I don't have 8am classes every day! Mondays and Wednesdays don't start until 10:20am. Thank goodness for that.