Most people would naturally assume from our Auburn educational background that’s where we met. Alas, our love story isn’t that simple. As I was graduating from LSU in 2010, Jason was doing the same over at Auburn. And while he was returning home to begin his big boy job, I was packing up to head across enemy lines to further my education at the loveliest village on the plains. Yes, that’s right. We switched places. But fate was on our side.
After my first semester of grad school wrapped, a few of us Auburn gals planned to ring in the New Year in the Big Easy. On December 31, 2010, we arrived in New Orleans at 9:30 am and, naturally, headed straight for Bourbon Street (after stopping for brunch, of course). My Uncle Jim has this saying “You can’t drink all day unless you start early in the morning.” In his honor, we pranced into Pat O’s at 11 am as the first patrons of the day and raised our hurricanes to kickoff New Years Eve.
From that night forward New Years became my favorite holiday.