This being Senior night, we were able to get my in-laws to come into town for the game. It was nice to see them, it had been a long while since the last time we saw them. They arrived right as the game was starting. We were super busy with the Senior walk, which was a bit long, first the Seniors on the band were walked, then the football team, followed by the drill team and then the cheerleaders. I was surprised to see only about 7-8 seniors on the football team. Back in 7th-8th grade there were enough boys to make a whole A and B team in each class. Time manages to change and eat at things, only a handful remained, but mixed in with the other three grades, we still have a decent team with maybe 40 players.
With traffic being shitty like it always is between San Antonio and Austin, the in-laws arrived right before kick-off, they missed the whole Senior walk thing, but I guess that was alright, it was so hectic, there was no time to be sad, like I had expected it to be. Up until we went and lined up, I had been setting up my flags and banners all over the stands and field. Mijo and his friends finally noticed, saying "wow, we look like some of those other school with our logo everywhere you look." Mijo says running out with flags makes us look like we know what we're doing, all the good schools have flags.
The game went about as good as can be expected, it is always nicer to accept things when your team is winning. Wife eventually went for a walk with her sister, around to the snacks on the visitor side, the line on our side were too long. My sister-in-law takes pictures and they even managed close up pictures of the crown the coach had been talking about for years that we needed to get back. Somehow or other, they managed to walk on the field and right be the crown where it was sitting on a table, waiting for its next yearly owner.
Eventually, the game ended, my in-laws were caught waiting around until all the hoopla died down, we were on the field way too long, they even started turning the field lights off to run us off, then I still had to gather my flags from on top of the fence line above the bleachers. On our way out, the in-laws got to meet the girlfriend and even her parents, I had told the dad I had a couple of 8x10 pictures of the cute kids together. My son is still being goofy that the parents don't know they're dating, but come on, my son is fully hugging the girl, and gave her a $200 mum and they went to the Homecoming dance, and she was over at the house last weekend, why are they acting dense?
At the end of the night, we picked up some pizzas and went home. They were waiting for us, ate a couple of slices with us, stayed up talking about the game for an hour, then we all went to bed.
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