This has been another great day here in the Delph. I guess, we are actually in Bismark, but we have had a really good day. Robby left before 8 to go and buy our tickets (the line was pretty long at the game to buy tickets so that was a good call). He also bought ice to ice down drinks for tonight, and then he picked up some doughnuts to make this camper super happy.
There wasn't a whole lot of time this morning before leaving for the game. Robby and I did walk Bentley, but when we came back, it was time to leave. We did get stuck beside the Henderson football team walking to the stadium, but other than that, we found parking spots fairly close.
I climbed out of the car, and pretty soon afterwards felt something on my foot. It took a second to register that the little black dots on my shoes were ants. I threw down everything in my hands and took my shoes and socks off. (We were all thankful that the ants did not crawl up my pants, or they would have had to come off too.) Graham worked on one shoe while I worked on the other one. I only really had one or two bites, and they stopped stinging by the time that we made it to the stadium so that could have all been much worse.
We found seats way up high in the stadium, but we were luck to have gotten those. They were decent though we were all winded each time we walked up to our spots. Robby and I had a loaded frito chili pie as our snack before the ballgame while the kids had ChickFilA sandwiches-and those were really the best parts about the game.
The game part wasn't great. I can say that the weather was actually wonderful. It was a bit windy, but once the sun did shine on us, the wind kept us comfortable. We left a little bit early and came back to start preparing our food for tonight.
We were able to sit a bit before everyone arrived but soon we were feeding quite a crowd. Shannon counted 29 college kids there tonight plus the rest of us so we fed 37 this evening. I had 4 recipes of potato soup (we ate 2.5), grilled cheese (4.5 loaves worth), 2 boxes of brownies (1/2 of a pan left), and cornflake cookies (quite a few left). Shannon had taco soup, cheese dip, oreo delight, and banana pudding.
It was so fun to see all of the kids. Last year, Reagan's group was kind of quiet and didn't really know many folks. This year that wasn't the case, but Anderson's group was the new group though they did still know most of the other folks-at least the guys. I believe that Reagan brought 8 friends with her, and I don't really know how many guys Anderson brought, but I think that it was about 7 or 8 as well.
The kids were all very thankful and polite this evening. Many of them offered to help us clean up. It was a fun evening-at the end, we did a bit of planning on how to manage for next year with Brett, Reagan, Anderson, and Graham's friends.
They all left around 8:30, and we started picking up. We had a lot of chairs to clean up. All of our kiddos helped, and when we were done, we sat by the fire for a few minutes with Shannon and Tony before taking the dogs on a walk.
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