As T said... Today felt like 2 days..... We did a lot today!
In the morning we got up and headed to the kids school for "Swap and Bop", where we laid out the clothes that we had collected the day before that were too small for these growing kids! We had a lot, so we made DD come with us. We got special permission to go down the hallway to see the kids art creatures, before heading to the library for the "bop" section of the morning. There we brought a game to play. We had some friends join us, and B was sure she had the game in the bag....but Lola pulled off the win. The kids were excited to finally play with all the cards, as they typically only have 4 players, and you need 5-6 players to play with the special donut cards. Lola met the principal and librarian of the school.
We headed for lunch at Rudy's, Lola's' request. It didn't disappoint, and sure was good, especially the smoked turkey and unsweet tea. We ordered a little bit too much creamed corn, but B really enjoyed it.
After lunch we headed back home. B, MBMell and Lola made Turkey Bark out of a subscription box in advance of American Thanksgiving, while T and DD played a video game. T was pretty excited to get to play this game that he has only watched DD play.
We then collected our warm clothes, and DD drove the 4 of us downtown Austin to the University of Texas for the TSU and Longhorns College Football Game. We met friends (S, S and P) at the first stop, Tailgate party in a parking garage. The kids "played" corn hole while the adults chatted.
After the tailgating, we headed down Bevo Blvd to partake in the activities there. The kids really enjoyed the bouncy house and shooting some basketballs. T wasn't very happy about what we were doing and you can tell in some of the photos. When we had to leave the Bouncy house he was quite upset that that would be the only fun thing all day... (little did he know).
We headed up to our seats through the sea of people, up to the 3rd level. The site was incredible, 105,000 person stadium full of mostly orange shirts, all with their bull horns.
Highlights of the game include; parachuters with fireworks landing on the field, 300+ person marching band, Bevo XV the live bull and the fans. The game wasn't so exciting as there were only 3 points scored in the first half of the game, but we had lots of questions for T trying to understand the game. Good thing MBMell worked many football games, and Lola knew a little about football. The forth Down was a little confusing for her.
B loved the snacks, and Lola was very excited to find a Chicken Rice bowl that was GF. T had so much fun, he was even knew when to use the bull horns to cheer on the team. It got late, and we decided to leave after the 3rd quarter to try and be able to find DD who was picking us up.
That was also an adventure as lots of roads were closed to allow for 105,000 people to get out of there, but after walking one way and then walking the other we found him. Wasn't sure B was going to make it, but we did. Made it home and T and B talked about how much fun they had the entire way home! Unfortunately both teams scored a touch down in the 4th quarter and we missed the canyon being shot, as well as the use of Big Bertha II the largest drum.
Final Score was 17-10 for TSU, but it was an amazing experience that I would definitely do again! Oh forgot to mention how cold it was... the temperature was about 8 degrees when we got there, and we are sure it cooled off as eventually we had to put our mitts on. Luckily we know how to layer, so none of us were cold.
Once at home we got kids to bed and while the adults hung out enjoying each others company!
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