Live in Cedar City and today we have a very special Guest as the oldest of our Nine Grandchildren( Noah) joins us for some Women’s College Basketball 🏀

Part of the next two hours will also be used to play catch up in regards to the 14 other events taking place today.

#Family

They tossed us a Beanie ! Lin is overjoyed

Actually, Lin is in good spirits because this happened earlier on Valentines Day

End of 1st quarter – Thunderbirds 20, Mavericks 17

Halftime score – Thunderbirds 36, Mavericks 30

The game between these two schools on the Mens side just went final down in Texas

3rd quarter Media TO (3:43) T-Birds 🐦 44-41

End of 3rd quarter – T-Birds 🐦 51- 47..another close game (3:24 MT)

Closing seconds now and the T-Birds 🐦 will leave the building happy 😊

Let’s call 📞 this one : Practice what you Preach! Welcome 🙏 to Southern Utah University versus Brigham Young University in Gymnastics!

When your rallying cry is we are all in this together and each person counts equally ❤, sometimes you have to lead by example.

Neither Lin or I have ever attended a College Gymnastics meet before tonight but during our 90 Day Stay we have supported both Southern Utah University and Utah Tech. Tonight that spills over to the balance beam !

First Note 📝 – the young Man in the ticket 🎟 office stated that only Football outdraws Gymnastics. I smiled back in his direction but wasn’t sure if he was pulling my leg.

BYU will start on the uneven bars and SUU on the Vault.

6:39 – underway ! The teams alternate athletes on their side of the Gym

6:50 – The teams now switch over to compete in the event that the other team just completed.

7:09 – first two events are in the Books 📚!

Next up – BYU to the floor, SUU to the beam.

7:35 – time to switch events again. The atmosphere in here borders on undescribable – Mad Energy !!

6 Athletes per team compete in each event…

Each performance is judged right after with the scores posted on the Jumbo Tron

SUU is celebrating its third straight conference Championship as they unveiled the banner before hand ✋

8:04 – end of those two events.

Awaiting a scoring update…..

196,975 to 196.000 in favor of the Cougars.

8:17 – end of competition

7 College Campuses and five Basketball 🏀 games in one afternoon….Challenge accepted !!! Start the Clock ⏰ at 6:34 am MT

Watching the Sunrise 🌅 on the stunning BYU campus…

Game Time is not until 2pm but 7am felt like a Peaceful Easy Feeling

Each year for our Anniversary ( 41 years now) we try and plan a unique way to celebrate and this year it started at Elk Ridge, Utah at 6:34 am.

Quick stops ✋ at Starbucks for Lin and conveniently a Taco 🌮 Bell 🔔 serving breakfast was right next door.

A few minutes later we were parked outside the Marriott Center on the Campus of Brigham Young University. It was some 7-8 hours before Tip of the Women’s game but it gave us ample time to take in the beauty of the place on our way up to Logan ( Utah State ). We knew that later on the schedule would be very tight so the sightseeing happened sooner than later.

Stop ✋ 2 was just down the road at Utah Valley University.

Utah Valley University is located just a few miles down the road in Orem.

It’s sad to think that this School 🏫 will be remembered by many for one day in History.

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One brief stop on the 2+ hour drive to the top of the State took place at a gas station ⛽. The drive was non-stop 9,000+ mountains, easy on the eyes 👀.

I was absolutely 💯% Blown Away by the crowd at Utah State !!!! No way it wouldn’t make any Top Ten list in the Country…

The Aggies ….11 am Tip Mountain ⛰ Time, televised on CBS

Next stop ✋ was in Ogden at Weber State where their most famous Alum is back as their General Manager.

3pm MT update : on the Campus of D2 Westminster University where the Griffins are hosting Colorado State University – Pueblo in a Women’s and Men’s Basketball 🏀 doubleheader.

Women played double overtime!

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Stop ✋ #6 of 7 – 4pm Tip at University of Utah versus Oklahoma State ! Big 12 Men’s Basketball 🏀

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7pm – Stop ✋ 7 of 7 falls into the category of Dumb Luck !!!

Earlier this Basketball 🏀 season I had seen the Salt 🧂 Lake City Community College teams play at a neutral site so we were swinging by to just snap up some pictures 📷 of their facilities.

Turns out that we stumbled into our very first Professional Volleyball 🏐 match between Salt Lake Lovb and visiting Atlanta !!!!