As Teresa posted about, we went to a Kolache Festival on Saturday. She explained most of what I would have said, but I have some more photos, and some video! First, the photos.

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So, this past weekend was our Aggie weekend. Aggie’s are, as Wikipedia says “The school’s students, alumni, and sports teams are known as Aggies.” We figured that we could get to know the people that we are surrounded by, plus it was the first Midnight Yell and football game of the year, so we immersed ourselves.

Friday was a busy day. It started after work with dinner at the General’s.The General is the VP of Student Services (I believe) over at Texas A&M, so he is kind of a big deal, and Teresa’s high up boss, not her immediate boss. It was a dinner for all of Student Services, about 50 people it seemed. It was good, free food and drinks are always good. After dinner, we went with one of Teresa’s coworkers, and her boyfriend, to the Dixie Chicken to kill some time before Midnight Yell. The bar started out kind of empty, but the later it got, the busier it got. The first part of the video is at the Chicken. I like the guy at the end of the first clip with the Roscoe’s shirt on. He has some moves. Around 11:30 p.m. (I believe) we headed on over to Kyle Field for the Midnight Yell. I took a bit of video from both outside the stadium, and inside. It was crazy. College kids all over the place! About 99% of people were wearing maroon or white (school colors). We shuffled into the stadium and they had us fill the student section, one whole side. We all did some yells (you might know them as cheers), and had a surprisingly good time. We got home around 2-3 a.m., it was a ling day.

Saturday started with some sleeping in. After the lazy morning we got ready to head to the mall so we could get the shuttle to the stadium for the first football game of the season. We were meeting a couple of Teresa’s coworkers for some tailgating action before the game. I should note that we did not purchase tickets. Seems that one person at Teresa’s office gets free tickets from the sports department and shares them from time to time. They were really good seats. back to the day, we spent some time outside the stadium with beer and burgers. Just before halftime Teresa and I headed into the stadium. She wanted to see the band, and I like hanging out with her, so I tagged along. The band was great, I have quite a bit of video of them. They did a lot of neat maneuvers on the field that weren’t very visible from our seats. Seats higher up would have had a great view. After halftime we decided to see some of the game, and listen to some of the yells, so we watched the third quarter. After the quarter ended we got back to the tailgating spot for a little longer before heading back to the shuttle for the mall. Oh, Texas won the game, they were playing against New Mexico I believe.

Sunday was not an Aggie day, it was a day of resting and getting ready for Monday (Labor Day) because both of us were working.

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Yesterday Teresa and I went to the Division of Student Affairs Annual Summer Social after our work days were over. We weren’t really sure what to expect except what the flyer had on it. It sounded okay, and it would be a good chance for me to meet the rest of her cohort, and actually get out of the house.

So, after I finished up my work day I got in the car and drove to meet Teresa at her office. It’s a nice office with a bunch of room, and way too many chairs in it. After cooling off for a bit we headed on over to the Student Recreation Center where the hoedown was going on. It was a quick event, about 1.5 hours, that included dinner (BBQ for non veggies, potatoes for me), a sing-along (three songs that not many people sang along to), a lesson on how to do the Aggie Chicken dance (it’s just the normal chicken dance everybody knows), trivia (we didn’t know this was happeneing), a dessert competition (Teresa made cookies but we were too late to be in the competition, or they were scared that she would win), and a dollar sale (we kept our dollars in our pockets). Whooh! It was a fun evening, I was glad to get out of the house and meet some people, though it felt like an awkward first-meeting kind of place. We will all meet again I am sure.

Afterwards we went home and just lounged around, the whirlwind evening had us wiped out.

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