Tag: first road trip first motel room first basketball game

thanks to Gamecock Jennifer for great seats behind our bench at Duke game

Duke took early lead, but Gamecock women finished with 77-61 win

Pretty and I have made the 3 1/2 hour road trip from Columbia, South Carolina to Durham, North Carolina three times in the past eight years to watch our Gamecock women’s basketball team play the Duke University Blue Devils. The trip this year was unique with a new traveler on board: 23 month old granddaughter Molly. While older sister Ella performed in The Nutcracker ballet in Columbia this weekend, Molly had a number of firsts with us starting with our first road trip together.

Molly’s mom Caroline always has her hair and clothes fixed so cute

another first for Molly was staying in a motel room with her Nana and Naynay

(she found Naynay’s Crocs next to bed and took off like a herd of turtles)

Pretty and Molly outside Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University on Game Day, Molly’s first basketball game

Molly happiest when looking at pictures of Ella

Our personal record with the Gamecock women is now 2-1 at Duke (yes, we were there for the loss in 2016), but while the first two games we saw at Cameron were exciting, this third game in Durham was a winner not only because we won a basketball game but also because we shared a memory maker experience with two North Carolina friends who are ardent Gamecock fans as well as our first attempt to indoctrinate a new little Gamecock fan who now shouts “Cocks” whenever the people around her shout “Game.” Sigh. If only we could have had a different mascot.

Gamecock women’s basketball won at Duke – and so did we. Go Cocks!

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