A Day In the Life of Nicole!: Football, Running and Bisbee!

LOTS to share about this past weekend :)

The weekend started with a 9 mile run on Saturday morning. Very. HILLY. Run. I'm STILL sore, but it was a good one! I even found a new running buddy!

Yes, that is a tarantula. The second one I've seen in my 3 years here. It doesn't get any easier to see, let me tell you. Yuck.

Anyways.

Saturday evening began with some tailgating on the U of Arizona campus.

BIG game against Iowa this weekend (Arizona won in a huge upset)!
Below is my friend Aimee, we teach together.

And this is Lily, my new roommate!

Tickets to go the actual game ranged from $45-$200, so we all decided we would watch the game on the mall (right in front of the stadium) -- the people we were tailgating with had flat screen TVs set up to show the game.

Fun, right? Well - it was. Until the sprinklers came on in the 4th quarter and soaked.us.all.

Yeah, you heard me. We were all sitting innocently (us an a lot of other people I might add) watching the game, eating hot dogs (our friends had a grill, too) and drinking some refreshing beverages when we all got HIT with high power sprinklers. Oh boy.

Sunday morning I headed to Bisbee, Arizona with my friends Heather and Matt High - an old mining town.

We started by checking out some of the antique shops - which of course included trying on some of the hats :) It REALLY reminded me of being in Grandma K's house!

After wandering and sight seeing, Heather and I did a "mine tour" -- an actual little train that took us through a real mine. It was amazing how CHILLY it was in the mine! It felt great.

Disclaimer: I AM WEARING something underneath, despite this misleading picture!

Here is some kind of tool they used to drill. I would probably be able to tell you exactly what it did if I were listening (tour guide to my right) instead of taking pictures. But we were having fun :)