OSU Homecoming 2012

Oklahoma State University Homecoming is known as one of the best college homecomings. And we love celebrating! Friday night they have what you call the walk-arounds. The sororities and fraternities spend a crazy amount of hours creating these engineering and artistic masterpieces made out of metal and tissue paper! It is neat to see how intricate some of the decks are! Neither John or I desired to be involved with that when we were in college but it is neat to see them anyway. I heard there were over 82 thousand people that attended the walk-arounds...not sure how they come up with that number? We went at 5 to beat the people-traffic so we didn't get to see all the lights but they did have the house deck pieces moving, carnival going, food for sale, and pictures with Pistol Pete. We also saw several people we know and that is always fun! Here is a family picture in front of the boot at Theta Pond. Thank Chandra Roush for taking the picture!

 After walking around to see all the deck creations (couldn't even tell you what to call them), we went to the carnival part for the kids. They had bounce houses, different kinds of obstacles, bumper cars, swings that went around, and cars to sit in that flew around and twirled around (not sure the name of all those things either). They even had camel rides. 

 We stayed the night at the Henry's (John's sister and husband) with their three kids and the boys stayed in the motor home with Pop and Grammy. The boys had a blast and enjoyed the whole week end! The new motor home is even more spacious than the last one they had. I can see why people retire and drive the country in those things! Very neat! John and Lori also watched the boys during the game so we could enjoy it! We started off in Grandpa and Grandma's seats but it was VERY hot and sunny so we ended up sitting by Danny and Marva in their private area with lots of room and in the shade. Ahh! It was nice! I wasn't a fan of 'all orange (orange helmets, pants, and jersey)' but overall is was tons of fun! Before the game we had waffles, bacon, and sausage at the RV. After the game, Danny cooked out and we enjoyed the family! I even got to visit with the parents of one of the girls who cheered with me when we were at OSU. What a fun week end!