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Basketball
... a hat. As we entered to find our seats we were met by a sea of orange ( Syracuse colours are orange and blue) all around us and lots of noise - music and chatter. The game was being filmed for television and to my great relief the camera was behind us so it could not focus on us during the game or the breaks in play.
Syracuse was playing a team called Colgate and the expectation was that Syracuse would win. They are apparently a very good team and ...
And then it snowed!!
On Friday evening we went to see a stage version of White Christmas at the Syracuse Stage. On the same evening the Christmas tree was being lit in Clinton Square and although the timing did not allow us to attend both events we drove past the tree and all the other lights in the city on the way home.
On Saturday morning we awoke to snow! Not a lot but enough to get us excited. This area of U.S. gets a lot of snow in the winter and they are all geared up to it. ...
We set off..........and celebrate Thanksgiving
... However, that was not the end of it. My cabin bag had been put into a queue of bags that they wanted to search. Everything was taken out and scrutinized (thank goodness the clothes were clean!) and finally it transpired that the suspicious item was an almost finished tube of toothpaste that I had not put into the plastic bag. This is a big trip: I wasn't going to argue about a couple of toothbrush fulls of Colgate so it got binned.
The flight was uneventful - ...
Game day
... in temno modren na kampusu. Pred tekmo so seveda potekali ameriski obicaji, npr tailgating, marching band, hamburgerji in ostalo kar spada zraven.
To je bila zadnja domaca tekma za Syracuse v letosnji sezoni, zato so se pred tekmo poslovili od igralcev zadnjih letnikov. Vzdusje v dvorani je bilo neverjetno, se posebej zato ker domaci niso igrali slabo. Prav nasprotno, "Pomarance" ...
The 'Cuse
... kaj vec pa nimajo casa :) Anna dela na kardiokirurgiji od 6ih zjutraj do 6ih zvecer, tako da sem jo jaz se dobro odnesel. Delam namrec od 8ih ali 9ih pa do petih popoldne. Prvi dan sem bil cel izmucen, specializant v nasi ekipi pa je bil cel presrecen, da smo koncali ze ob petih: "I get to see my kids!" Brez komentarja...
Po sihtu grem ponavadi se v fitnes, ki ga imajo delavci Upstate-a zastonj, prav tako telovadnico, savno in bazen. Ampak za take dnarje se ...