Football season!

Another one of our fall favorites -- football! We headed down to West Point for the Army-Temple game (37-21) on Saturday! GO ARMY!

We arrived early (around 8 am) so that we could see the Corps of Cadet review on the plain. In addition to the General, the alumni from the classes of 1962 and 1967 reviewed the cadets. Seeing this was...simply stated....impressive.

This is the plain where the cadets march. The Cadet Chapel is in the background.

"Hmmm...what's going on?" he seems to be thinking.

Mr. Football

A group of cadets marched right in front of us.

After the review, each regiment exited the plain.

Once the review was complete, the Black Knight Cadet Parachute team buzzed the crowd, and the jumpers waved! According to Daddy, Mommy got very excited... she exclaimed "look William" when the helicopter flew over. In her defense, it was only because she knows how much William loves helicopters!!

One of the jumpers coming in for a landing!

After each jumper landed, the helicopter flew over again. The crew on board waved to the crowd!!

The crowd was invited to walk onto the plain and visit with the jumpers and cadet. This is Jen from Vermont. She was gracious enough to take a picture with us!

We walked back to our car and took a shuttle to the stadium for the game. William LOVES school buses. He watches the buses pass our house each morning and exclaims "'cool bus!" Lately, he has asked, "sit cool bus?" (Which actually sounds like "snugglebus"). He finally got the opportunity to sit in a school bus at the game! He was so excited! In fact, during the third quarter of the game, he saw the shuttles lining up for the end of the game... "snugglebus???"

He didn't want to leave the "cool bus" -- bye bye cool bus, he said.

Going to our seats... note the sea of cadets with their white hats on!

The view from our seats... Cadet Chapel and the reservoir are behind the visiting bleachers.

Go ARMY!!