Holiday Trip

Our son and daughter are home for the Christmas Holidays. Our son had to work to earn some money for graduate school, so our daughter an I took an overnight trip to Eugene to watch an Oregon Duck Basketball game at "The Pit" against the University of Portland. She was able to see them play earlier in the year when they played Georgetown in Washington DC. However, she has not been to "The Pit" for several years and wanted to see one more game before they eventually build a new basketball arena. (we hope) The Ducks were playing Portland in a pre non conference game. It is normally hard to get tickets to the Ducks in Eugene but with the holidays the students were not on campus so I was able to get some tickets. We had a good time. We drove up Thursday morning and went to the Duck shop and I got a new Duck coat. We had lunch at a campus hangout and then checked into the New Oregon Motel. It's across the street from the U of O and I have been staying there for almost 50 years. I stayed there when I was a kid with my parents when we would go to Eugene to see the Ortodonist as Coos Bay did not have one. We went to several book stores and also checked out Best Buy for DVD's. The Ducks won the game and it was fun being back on campus. After the game we went to Track Town Pizza for an after game pizza. On Friday after a stop at Borders Books we drove home. It was a fun getaway and it was special to do it with our daughter.