This was a super fun day. Going into this weekend, I was pretty much dreading it because I was not excited at all about the cold weather on Friday and Saturday. However, the sun was out both days and even though it was cold in the shade, it was pleasant in the sun. Plus tonight was not horrible outside despite te lack of a fire, but that was because I did have lots of layers on.
We lollygagged around this camper until we were having the scurry to get everything done this morning. Robby and I started working on the soups-it isn't hard to make the soups, but it is a lot to put in them especially when you are doubling plus more to do them.
Then we took the dogs on a quick walk, and it was time to leave to head to the 99th Battle of the Ravine. We had thought that we were going to be a bit late, but really we arrived at the perfect time. The football team had not walked across the street yet, and the band was waiting for them. We waited around as well, and after the team walked through the band the kids started started filing through the band too. We took that as our cue to head towards the stadium.
We joined the crowd as we walked over to Henderson. We were in the sun so I took off about 3 layers of clothes. At one point Campbell and Whitman went to the shade on the grass to sit, and they came back because they got chilly.
The game was fun-Ouachita was ahead for the entire game, but of course at the end they just fell apart. We might have left early if we would have been able to keep our lead, but we ended up staying until the bitter end. On what should have been one of our final plays, we fumbled and they ran it back. They came within two points and had the opportunity to tie the ball game. Ouachita was able to stop them so we were able to see the kids all run out onto the field to celebrate.
We made it back to the camper around 4:15 I think, and all of the kids were coming at 5:30 so we kicked things into high gear. Our soups were all made, but there were dogs to walk and everything else to sit outside. We made it in plenty of time, and even had time to enjoy a snack.
Graham and Brooklyn came first, and then the kids started arriving. It was mostly boys tonight-counting all of us there were around 52 people tonight. It was fun seeing Reagan, Anderson, and Graham with their friends. We met a few new people tonight that we had not met before. (Though I struggle remembering names and faces and the stories that I hear about their buddies.) We had potato soup and taco soup along with cheese dip and grilled cheese. Then there was ooey gooey, brownies (2), oreo delight, and banana pudding for dessert. We barely had any leftovers.
We were worried that the kids wouldn't stay too long without a fire to keep them warm. However, I think that they all stayed a decent amount of time. People did start trickling out, but some stayed until half time of the football game.
Once everyone left, we slowly started putting everything away. We took our time so it was not bad at all. We did sit down to watch the last bit of the ballgame, but the girls were already back home and in bed by the time that we did finish cleaning up. However, we are mostly done for tomorrow so that will be nice for sure.
My notes for next year: This year we had 52 people counting all of us. I made 3.5 soup recipes of potato soup, used 4.5 loaves of bread for grilled cheese. I think that Shannon did 4 recipes of taco soup, and used 2 blocks of velveeta. I didn't have any soup left over, and the taco soup had about 1 recipe or less leftover. For desserts, I had two pans of brownies and a pan of ooey gooey; Shannon had banana pudding and oreo delight plus we both had leftover Halloween candy out. All of the desserts were pretty much finished off. Also, we had hot chocolate plus a box of handwarmers. If it is super warm, maybe try to do two fires next year. I know my notes section here is a kind of silly, but I did this last year, and it really helped me make a plan for this year.
