The Boilermaker Ball!

We were invited to the Boilermaker Ball last weekend.  We gladly obliged and headed down to Indy for the alumni event. 

  

It was at the J-Dub downtown.  I'd never been there before so I was excited to check it out.  There was a seating chart in the program.  We realized there were around 1000 people there!! We were the cool people at table 2. 

 

 

 When we first walked in, we had the opportunity to have our picture taken with Purdue Pete. What am I doing with my arm? Once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader, I guess.  

Good thing Pete didn't blink right? (Groan.  Eye roll.  Don't worry, I stole that joke from Andrew.)

 The theme was "Down the Rabbit Hole" this year.  We didn't actually have our dessert first.  It was just listed that way on the menu.  Party Planning Peeps be cray cray!! Haha!

I did not take enough pictures but that just shows how much fun we had! Too busy tying one on to take pics!

I took a picture of the dance floor and stage.  Kind of. 

I thought this was funny.  I took a picture of the couple across from us who got their picture with Purdue's AD and had Brian Cardinal, of all people, take it. Umm... so if you had your choice between NBA Champion and Purdue AD, which would you choose? Here, guy, you're not doing anything besides wearing a Tweedle Dee hat.  Take our picture, will ya?

The tables had giant flowers on them.  It was quite a Golden Afternoon, huh? GET IT??? ;)

Here's Andrew with his new bestie, Brian.  You might remember him from this post.  Their friendship has really blossomed. 

We sat at the table with Brian and his wife, Danielle.  We also partied with Jerry from Nine Irish, as we do.

The live band was amazing! We danced to almost 4 straight hours of live music.  Endless Summer Band.  Book them now, if you're getting married.  They were awesome!

Bowtie buddies, Andrew and Jerry.  Andrew did not think about the fact that he didn't know how to tie a bowtie until he was putting on his suit and we were late for the cocktail hour.  Whoops! Thank Goodness for Youtube videos, amirite?

Hubby and Wifey with the band in the back.  Can't you tell? ;)

Silly front view

 

Should I tag this #cardinalselfie ... or #WeAreAllTweedleDUM ?

What would this hashtag be? #nineirishphotobooth maybe? I think I'm on Instagram too much.

End of night selfie.  We both had our uncomfortable shoes off for the walk back to our room. 

A great night was had by all Boiler Alums in attendance. Thanks for the invite, Brian.  We had a great time!

Dinner with our friend, Brian

A couple weeks ago, we had the opportunity to go to dinner with Brian Cardinal.  Some of you readers may not know who he is (because I'm WORLDWIDE, Folks!!).  Brian was a player at our ol' Purdue University.  Then he went on to the NBA and played for few different teams before retiring to a more regular life in Indiana just recently. 

He tweeted a picture of us.  We felt super cool. He told some great stories about Gene Keady and playing for Purdue.  He was a really funny and extremely nice to us nerdy fans.  :-) 

I'm keeping this short because I could go on and on with super dorky anecdotes but that might bore you.  The only thing you need to know is that he can take a good ribbing and give it right back to you.  Also, he was nice enough to come over to our seats during the Purdue game and say a casual hello.  I couldn't go to the game that night but boy, did Andrew enjoy that.  Everybody sitting around them said, "OMG, that's Brian Cardinal."  Our seat neighbors must be asking "Who ARE These people?" after seeing us sit in the gold seats, have a fully uniformed officer come over to talk to us every game, and being visited by Brian Cardinal.  I guess we're just something special. :)

I don't have time to talk about all the funny articles I found on Brian Cardinal, I will just link to them so you can read them in your spare time.  This one is possibly true on how he got a big contract.  This is about his twitter presence getting him in trouble.  This post has a super quick reference to his foul shot ritual.  Sadly, that was the ONLY thing I could find on that.  Oh wait, just kidding.  Here's another one from a former Ohio State player talking about the foul shot ritual. Hilarious.  We know why he did it!!!! Oohhh secrets!!

Anyway, super exciting night for true Purdue fans.  Plus he was a really interesting person to talk to.  Double bonus! Thanks for dinner, our new friend Brian.  (I totally hope he googles himself and finds this, by the way. :-)