Today I went to my first football game!!! I woke up at 7:30 in the hotel room and we took showers and then we went to eat our continental breakfast. We wanted to go to this tailgating thing hosted by the family weekend people but by the time we parked and walked over to the field, there was no time left. Dad was stoked because today was the Marines' birthday so he was positive that they were going to do a fly over at half time. So he was looking forward to that all day. When we got to the gate to get into the football stadium, the people told Mom her purse was too big so we had to go check it in at a purse check-in station. When we were standing back in line to get into the stadium, the national anthem was playing and people started cheering and then all of a sudden two air plane things flew over the stadium....sooooo Dad missed his fly over :( SORRY DAD! It took a while to get inside and to find our seats but we did eventually. It was a super nice day outside because it was about 70 degrees outside. The game was a black out but some people didn't get the memo. It still looked cool though! So we watched the game. It was against Purdue. There was a random time where it started pouring out of nowhere but that only lasted for about a minute and then it was warm again. It was really funny watching all the people put their sweatshirts on really fast haha.
I took this picture of the band during half-time. I think this is them in the shape of a Tigerhawk but I'm not really sure....they were facing the other direction. I don't really understand football but I know enough to clap and cheer when other people clap and cheer :) and I understand touchdowns!
We decided to leave a few minutes before the game was over to beat the crowd and at that time, the game was tied. After we got Mom's purse, we stood in the street where you could see the scoreboard and the screen that showed you what was happening. It was tied until the last second when Purdue scored a field goal and won by three points...boo :(. Oh well. It was still a nice game!
After that, we were starving so we went to the Hamburg Inn which was recommended to Mom and Dad by a guy they work with and recommended to me by my RA. It was a small little restaurant but the food was really good! I enjoyed it very much.
After that, we decided to go to the mall and walk around to kill some time. Mom did Christmas shopping and it was great. When we were all really tired from walking so much, we went back to my dorm room and chilled until it was time to go to the IMU. There was a family feud thing going on so we went to that. I didn't want to participate because I don't like being in front of crowds but it was still entertaining to watch everybody else! Here's a picture:
The winning team won $200 and it was whoever got the most points during their round. There were a few rounds of families that went but the people in the first round won and it's the family on the right in the picture. After that, we went back to the hotel room and passed out.
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