This past weekend we celebrated Baylor Homecoming in Waco. Since the forecast showed it would be raining we decided to reschedule our family photo shoot and head down to Waco Friday morning instead of Saturday as originally planned. Friday night we got to Waco around 4 and stopped by Robinson Tower to say "hi" to some of my former co-workers. Lots of people were already gone since it was late Friday afternoon on homecoming weekend, but it was still good to see some people. Lots of new faces, but it didn't look like much else had changed since I worked there ~4 years ago. After that we found our hotel and as we booked it on the phone without even looking online to see pictures, etc... we were pleasantly surprised at how nice it was. They had chocolate chip cookies waiting on us and the place was decked out in green and gold!
We quickly checked in, ate our cookies, and changed into our swimsuits to enjoy the heated indoor pool and hottub for a little while. After swimming, which Raegan loved, we showered and got ready for dinner. We ate dinner with the Roye's (Jake Roye is the Chick-fil-A Operator in Waco that Philip used to work for). We ate at El Tamitactios; Raegan made a new friend, Shelby. She is in 2nd grade and when she tried to pick up Raegan for a picture they tumbled over! Luckily no one was hurt; they just both laughed about it. =)
After dinner we headed to campus for the Business School Alumni reception. We got to see our former professors and show off Miss Raegan who was peacefully sleeping in her stroller (thank goodness). From there we headed out to tour the Student Union Building (SUB) for the homecoming tour and then passed by "our swing," a couple of other memorable places on campus, the huge stage, farriswheels, and funnelcake stand to find a seat and watch the fireworks and bonfire.
After the bonfire, we headed over and grabbed some frozen coffee from Common Grounds before heading back to the hotel.
Saturday 10-23-2010
We got up early, ate breakfast, checked out of our hotel (after saying hi to Casey who was working at the front desk (he used to work at CFA with Philip), and headed to the Spirit Shop to get some new Baylor gear! We were their first customers of the day, we changed into our new clothes in the car and went and got THE BEST parking spot to watch the parade from. The back of our SUV was facing 4th street, so when it was sprinkling and windy before the parade started we just sat in the back of the car with the back door up, worked out perfect. Raegan enjoyed the parade, but enjoyed the dogs that people brought with them to the parade more. She ate 3 suckers that morning and we brought home a sack full of candy (and Halloween is this next weekend)! After the parade we went to Rosa's for lunch, mmmm how I have missed that place. I got my favorite Combination Nachos! I could eat those EVERY day! After a delicious lunch at Rosa's we headed over and got an awesome parking spot right across from HEB, we found some friends at a couple of different tailgates to say hi to and cheered at the "March of the Bears" (a first for us as it is a new tradition at Baylor this year to cheer for the team as they arrive at the stadium and get off of buses). We found the kiddie area and let Raegan play in one of the bouncies for a lil while. She loved flying in the air as the big kids (3-8 year olds) jumped around. All the other parents and children were pointing at her and saying things like, "look at the little baby." Raegan must not have heard them, she doesn't seem to realize she is younger than them, she begged to go through the inflatable obstacle course, which is for older kids/adults, but I wouldn't let her because I was afraid she'd get stuck in there and I'd have to crawl in to get her.
We found our seats and watched the bears play 3 downs, and then the refs decided to delay the game "30 minutes" because lighting was spotted 6 miles away. Although it had been sprinkling off and on all day, it wasn't raining at that time and the crowd was mad about the "30 minute" delay. The football teams and band left the field/stands and the announcer asked the fans to multiple times, until it no longer became a suggestion, but a warning. The lines to go down under the stands were long, but once it started raining pretty hard, we got out of our seats and tried to find a place under the stands. Raegan was sleeping across my arms and her 'dead weight' felt like at least 50 lbs for the 2 hours I ended up holding her like that... a hail storm and possibly tornado blew through and we all got rained on and the delay ended up being at least 2 hours. When we got back in the stands it would sprinkle periodically and then the sun came out, and then a cold front blew through, which caused the ~70 degree temps to drop almost instantly. I walked out to our car and got our jackets and Raegan a pair of dry clothes to change into. The rest of the game was great, except for a few borderline/horrible calls (like the first down signal being excessive celebration, please!). So Baylor won the game against Kansas State and for the first time in like 15 years is bowl elegible! So the students rushed the field and we stayed and watched the whole ordeal and to sing 'That Good Ol' Baylor Line' with everyone. We headed up to Hillsboro after the game, grabbed some dinner, and passed out in our hotel, right after I asked Philip if we could sleep in, in the morning.
Sunday 10-24-2010
Philip woke me up and the first thing I did was look over at the clock. Eight o'clock ok I guess that counts as sleeping in, I thought. My sweet husband had already gotten up and gone downstairs and brought up breakfast for us; such a good man! We took our time coming home on Sunday and even stopped at a nice mall in FortWorth, as well as a Dairy Queen, yum! Philip loves their dipped cones.
Sorry this post is so overdue, Blogger has been giving me trouble uploading pics and videos... I'll try to add more sometime (if I remember ; )
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