Jan 22 2009
NC State Goes Bowling…
Me and two of my sorority sisters at the bowl game!
Hi everyone! I’m Andrea Ertz and this is my first blog. I am from Burlington, Iowa and I’m a sophomore majoring in Biological Sciences and working toward a minor in Spanish. I am involved in many things here at NC State including basketball pep band, marching band, Pre-Health club, and I am one of the founding sisters of the Tri-Delta chapter at NCSU. One of my favorite activities is marching band. Not only do we get to go to every game without worrying about if we’ll get tickets or not, but we also get to travel to some of the away games!
One of the highlights of my marching band career so far has been going to the Papajohns.com Bowl this past winter break! Even though I had a pretty rough time getting back to Raleigh in order to go to the game, I ended up making it to the airport at 2:00am after my flight was delayed 5 hours in Chicago. I was worried that I would miss the bus! My wonderful friends were there to pick me up at the airport, even though we had to be at Price Music Center less than six hours later. We left Raleigh at 9:00am Saturday, December 27th and took charter buses all the way to Birmingham, Alabama.
This is me and a bunch of my band friends at dinner one night
After our lunch and dinner breaks, it ended up taking 10 or 11 hours to get there! We stayed in a nice hotel for two nights and it was a lot of fun. There was a pep rally on Sunday night where our band played and Coach O’Brien and a few of the football players talked. The bowl game was Monday, December 29th at 2:00pm. The game was a lot of fun although Russel Wilson ended up getting hurt in the 3rd quarter and was out for the rest of the game. We ended up losing 29-23 but it was still such a fun game! Our band performed on the field during halftime and that was awesome!
Reuben Studdard singing the National Anthem
We left immediately after the game and ended up getting back into Raleigh at about 6:00 the next morning. It was a pretty exhausting trip but I was glad to escape the freezing Iowa winter where there had been snow and freezing rain since I got home on December 16th. I definitely appreciated the 60 and 70 degree weather in Alabama! Although marching band season is over, now I have pep band to look forward to. Hope to see everyone at some of the games…Go Wolfpack!
Ms. Wuf singing
Go Pack!!
