Assembly Hall

We have been looking forward to this day for a few months...an IU home basketball game in Assembly Hall.
We arrived last Saturday morning to visit with Tyler, Abby and some of their friends.  We actually did some shopping and took a stroll around campus first.  The weather held out...in the mid 50's and cloudy - but no rain. 

 Love this photo of Tyler and Gabi...completely random and at a purely genuine moment...Gabi loves to visit her brothers every chance she gets and she certainly is not afraid to show love.  Can I say she walked with Tyler like this for alot of the time we shopped on Kirkwood...just really love these moments...

Tyler and Abby wanted to try a new place where they had not been to...Grazie! downtown.  It was very good Italian.  Much like Olive Garden, but even better!  Plenty of food and then some to take back to Tyler's apartment!  We checked into our hotel and played some Eucre with Abby/Tyler and Matt/Tyler.  Finished a couple of games and it was off to check out Assembly Hall.  We opted for better seats over a better game considering the BIG game seats were going for $200+ each!  And because it wasn't a high profile game we were able to get some photos on the court!

I told Ben before the game that I would love to see some dunks and I have to say, the team did NOT disappoint!!  Dunk after dunk and the place went nuts!  Even Watford got in on a dunk!!!

The atmosphere was great!!  Only some seats empty in the balcony area which surprised me since this game was not a BIG one.  The team won 100-69 thus allowing the first 100 people to get free meals at QDoba after the game!!!  Pretty awesome to say we saw the number 1 team in the country play!!  Let's hope they are the Champs this year!!!
After the game we headed back to Tyler's apartment to watch the Heismann announcement...still sad that Manti Teo did not win it and we decided to go check out the lights downtown before heading back to the hotel.  We grabbed up some sweets at a bakery and enjoyed the pretty lights.  I was in awe at how many lights were up on the trees!!!  Beautiful. 

Before heading out this morning, we took Tyler to grab a few groceries to tide him over till next weekend and went to watch him ref some basketball (5th grade) at a Sports Center with Matt.  They did a good job!!!  Had an awesome time and is definitely something we would LOVE to do again!!!