Final Four Festivities!!! Go MSU!!!

Here we are outside of Hoop CityHere is Miss Myah decked out in her head and wristbands with her new basketball.

Building her little baskeball hoop, being ever so careful.
Dayton Myah and me at the huge pep rally.

At the pep rally Sparty or "Smarty" as Myah calls him, is revving up the crowd! Would you believe my cousin is married to a man who actually was "Sparty" at MSU!

On the riverfront, Detroit was very festive!

The Ren Cen was bustling with activity, this is the headquarters for General Motors, it was nice to see happy times here, it surely is a bad time for Motor City.

The big bracket!

On the roof of Chelis the MSU fans had taken over!

Here is Ford Field where they broke a NCAA record last night for game attendance, 75,00 fans packed the stadium, mostly wearing green and white! What a great time to be a Michigander!

Here is the team headed to the stadium, not a very good picture but it is all I could get!

We spent the day in downtown Detroit taking in all the festivities. We never have tickets to get into any of the big events that come to Detroit but we sure enjoy walking around the city and enjoy all of the activities that the events bring in. Yesterday we went to Cobo where "Hoop City" was going on. The kids had a great time and got lots of little trinkets from the NCAA for participating. Myah got to build a really cute little wooden basketball hoop from Lowes, she got to keep her goggles and apron and even as I type, she is wearing them. She also would not take off her Final Four headband and wristbands. The news even taped her on top of Mark's shoulders dancing while MSU was on the stage during the Pep Rally with all of the Final Four teams. The weather was perfect and we walked along the riverfront, it was great to see so many people wearing green and white! The fact that MSU is in the final game for the championship is the cherry on top, being that the games are in Detroit, I kind of felt bad for the other teams because they were swarmed by green and white, ok, I felt bad for like half a second!!! We left just in time to get home to watch the game! Probably the coolest part of the day was as we were leaving Detroit, we were amazed at the amount of traffic backed up trying to get into the city, we were glad we were headed out, we saw several emergency vehicles and noticed that they were escorting three MSU team busses headed to Ford Field for the game! So exciting! We were biting our nails during the game and were so excited that they won! We have a friendly competition going on in our household, we always fill out our brackets when the tournaments begin for March Madness, I being the huge basketball fan (yeah right) that I am always pretty much guess at who is going to win, and to my family's dismay, I usually do pretty good. This year I am dead on, I picked MSU and NC to go into the finals and of course I picked MSU to win! Duh! I blew my boys out of the water! They are cracking up and just roll their eyes when I rub it in a little bit! Hee hee! Mark says I probably could have won some major money if I had entered a pool but I am not a gambling woman so I just settle for the title of the winner in my household! Now tomorrow night is the final game and we are supposed to get snow, yes snow, like 6 inches, hellloooo, it is spring break and we are gettting snow?!!! Yuk!! So hopefully the crowds will still come out to support our Spartans! Mark has a friend with "connections" so he may be getting in to the game, we are not sure just yet but that would be wonderful if he could be there! Go Spartans!!! Go green, go white!!! All the way!