After we found out we would be moving to Indiana I told Spencer that we needed to go to a game at Notre Dame. You can't grow up watching Rudy and not catch that fire. What made it even better was that BYU was playing this fall. Graydon emailed our brothers and brothers-in-law to see if anyone was interested. We expressed interest and invited him to fly into Indy and spend some time here. Then Spencer emailed his brothers and dad. Grandma and Grandpa decided to postpone their visit until game weekend. Then Bubbe and Papa figured they may as well come then and go to the game! It was a fun weekend with lots of visitors. I am really glad we went to the game. It was so cold that weekend, but it was worth it. Even the couple burns I got on my arms from the hand warmers I stuffed down my sleeves were worth it! Many times during the day more than one of us expressed gratitude that we had decided to leave Jane with our wonderful babysitter who stayed with the kids all day long!
The campus is really neat and the Notre Dame fans really were hospitable. And it was really fun to see the other BYU fans come from around the country. A great experience that I think we could definitely repeat! The hardest part may have been after Dirk and Lilly Ann dropped Graydon, Spencer, and me off at home and we discovered that we did not have a house key like we thought and it ended up taking us quite a while to wake up the babysitter who we could see sleeping through the family room window! I fell asleep all the time when babysitting as a youth, so I guess what goes around comes around.
At one point during the game part of the marching band went around to different portals playing in the stands. It was really fun and they came right next to us! I kept trying to get a picture and it wasn't really working, so when they were finished Spencer asked this trombone player to pose for me.
