Rainy start to the day for the drive back to Iowa. Made fairly good progress. Arrived back at about 2.30 and headed for the university sports centre [center] to see if they had any tickets left for the college football game tomorrow night - as luck would have it, a whole section had only just been opened up barely hours before we arrived - a fortunate happenstance mayhaps. Patrick is particularly impressed - a 7.30 game (p.m.), so it should be over by midnight - hopefully.
Swapped the small Fiesta for a considerably larger Chevrolet Impala - enough boot space to fit the Fiesta it would seem. So hopefully we will be able to get to the airport with all our luggage and not have to jettison any pieces.
Back to John and Valerie's for dinner, oh and to catch up with Valerie whom we haven't see for well over a year. Then out to a celebration of sorts of the start of the college basketball season's year with the Black and Gold Blow-out - an intriguing ethnographic view of the sporting sub-culture at university level, in which the coming season's teams (men and women) are introduced to the fans with all the hype and showmanship one might expect of such a performance, complete with brass band, shooting flames and fireworks, oh yes, and a bit of a demonstration game from the two teams. Quite probably more interesting than seeing an actual college game, especially as we will be seeing an NBA game in L.A.
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