channeling nicole

while we were tailgating with some of our friends i overheard one of the guys say that his buddy was tailgating with jeff samardjia. i paused for a second and tried to decide what to do with this information. so after about 1.5 seconds i ran to alli (she was about 2 feet away and yes i ran) and told her about this interesting piece of information. after debating for less than 30 seconds we were off. we asked ben to go with us, he agreed as long as we promised we wouldn't do anything to embarrass him. we assured him we just wanted to see him and nothing else and set off to poll #12 in the parking lot.

we got there looked around and he was nowhere to be seen. we were about to give up when we realized we were on the wrong side of the poll (being directionally challenged it is difficult to figure these things out). we crossed the road and there he was. alli calls magan to tell her what is going on and ben handed me his phone so i could take a picture (he promptly runs away so we don't embarrass him any more).


finally alli convinces me we MUST go get a picture, ben is a rock star has come out of hiding and agrees to take the picture. i told alli i would go but i would not talk. so alli goes and asks jeff if we can get a picture and he said he would love to. then i suddenly get courage to talk and said something along the lines of we left you alone the entire time you were our neighbor...then he apologized for everything that happened while they lived there. honestly we never ever heard them but if we lived in 1b we may have had a different opinion. so anyhow ben, the greatest photographer EVER, took our picture.



as we were leaving alli wished jeff luck with baseball (she is much better at this stuff than i am) and i tell him that i don't like the cubs (hey somebody in the organization should know) but that i am cheering for him to do well. so all and all i think it went amazingly well. we called about everybody we knew and nobody was as excited as we were well until nicole called but we have been through this all before. thanks alli and ben i never would have done it without you guys! below is the picture after the picture with our photographer (i wonder what jeff would have thought if we asked him to take it maybe next time!)