Texas!... Fight!

It was a great weekend for the Longhorns... maybe not the prettiest of games, but a win nonetheless! Our Red River Rivalry weekend started Friday at noon when we left Austin for Dallas. I had heard horror stories of how bad the traffic can be, but we didn't run in to many problems until we hit Dallas Friday afternoon traffic. We finally arrived at R&P's friends' apartment around 5. Here R & P relaxing before dinner:


After dinner, we decided to go check out all the pre-game festivities in downtown Dallas. This is where all the trash-talking happens between the Texas-OU fans. I was excited to see it all... D, on the other hand, was not. We walked the streets and ended up at The Iron Cactus where there was a Texas-Ex party going on. The cheerleaders were there to get everyone excited about the game. It was great to be in the company of so many Longhorn fans!

Walking the streets

R & P

D and me

the girls

Saturday would start early for us- 6:20 am to be exact. I had half of a donut hole for breakfast. This might not seem important now, but it will be later. The plan was to get to the State Fair by 7:00 so we would have plenty of time to find tickets. Yes, that's right. We didn't have tickets to the game yet. Livin' life on the wild side... The ticket situation wasn't as favorable as we expected, but D and I found tickets about 30 minutes before kick-off. Actually R found them and he pretty much let us have them. Thank you R! R and P continued to look for tickets while we went inside and found our seats. They didn't have any more luck and ended up watching the game on a TV in a food court at the fair.

Meanwhile, D and I rushed into the fair and found our way to our gate. When we got to our seats, we realized we hadn't eaten anything for lunch. We thought we had used up the majority of our cash (found some later in my billfold that I didn't know was there) on our tickets, so D went to the food court and bought a hot dog and a bottle of water. He ate the hot dog, I drank the water... I was too nervous for food! In the 3rd quarter, I started to feel the affects of the heat and lack of food, so D went to see what else he could get us... a coke and a bag of chips. I drank part of the coke and ate 2-3 chips. Again, too nervous to really be able to eat. Food wasn't important until the game was over!

Here are some pictures from the game:

Oklahoma's flag (which was booed, of course)

The Show Band of the Southwest!

The Lone Star State

We're a little crazy about our flag

The final score 16-13

Sorry- no pictures from the actual game. I was on my feet, cheering and stomping and drowning out Boomer-Sooner with Texas! Fight! more times than I can count.

And remember that video I shared last time that got me so fired up for the game? Well, now I have my own...

I was asked this morning by my mom if the game was worth it... worth the hours spent tutoring this summer to pay for the tickets, worth the anxiety of finding tickets, worth the crowds of OU fans yelling at us, worth my sunburned face?

Yes. It was 150% worth it.

I. Loved. Every. Second. Of. It.

Red River Shootout

I am excited for so many reasons... first of which is that my week is only 3 days thanks to Mr. Columbus and to the title of the post. If you're a Longhorn fan, then you're probably aware that the Texas-OU game has become the biggest game of the season in the recent past... mostly because we're both usually ranked and can be a deciding game in determining what kind of post-season game we'll play. The game is always played in Dallas (a neutral site halfway between the two universities) and believe it or not, D and I have never been to this game. But that's about to change.

This weekend, we will be making the trek (along with about a gazillion other Longhorns) on I-35 to Dallas to enjoy the game, visit the state fair, and hopefully return with a win in our 'W' column. Since it's such a big game, the traffic is awful so we'll be leaving Friday to try to avoid some of the madness. Yay for getting Monday and Friday off! If only every week could be like that...

And with that, I'll leave you with "The Eyes of Texas" played after last year's game which ended as a Texas win- 45-35.