Insight bowl press conference

This morning, found us at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Az for the Insight Bowl press conference. The Camelback Inn is a Marriot resort, and the accommodations appear outstanding. This photo is of the courtyard area, looking back into the mountains. This hotel housed the majority of the photographers and writers throughout the days leading to the bowl game.




Todays press conference was full of the usual Oklahoma Media suspects, and some of the Phoenix area media types.



No real big suprises, just a lot of the same questions surrounding the prospects of a win or lose record. There was also a bit of chatter over the Bobby/Zach quarterback switch. (That feels like years ago)




The afternoon found us taking lunch near our hotel, in a strange little restaurant that James says is nationwide, The Rain Forest Cafe. If you've never been to one, I think it's something you probably need to experience at least once. Nothing like fake thunder and lightening every 15 minutes to scare the little tykes dinning.


We also found some time to take a short hike (Trail #300 Summit Trail) in the Arizona Mountains, located only a mile or two from the media hotel. That adventure is a whole different story, but it is sufficient to say that it was probably not the smartest thing to march to the top of a mountain with a bunch of high dollar glass. But it made for some decent images, even if the setting sun stubbornly didn't produce that good of a sunset.