This weekend Kathy's Brother Tom and his wife Paula are in town and staying with us. We are enjoying having them here. Yesterday Tom, Paula and I went to the Air Force Academy for the AFA-Utah football game while Kathy stayed in Littleton to help Keri with the twins. It's about an hour's drive from our house to the parking lot at the academy. We were early enough that we wandered around the outside of the stadium where there were several vendors but also some freebies. I got free chicken wings from Coors and tons of M&Ms from AT&T (I had a sugar high by game time), a finger (not that finger, a foam AFA finger) from an insurance company, a golf towel and other stuff. The game started at 5:30 and the night got colder as it got later and the wind came up. I enjoyed watching the cadet march in by squadron, the parachutists, the live falcon mascot do his/her thing, and the jet fly-by (although I was disappointed in halftime since we couldn't hear). We left in the fourth quarter when Utah was up by 18 points. By the time we reached our car, Air Force was down just 5 points.
We were gone about six hours total but the time I enjoyed most was the two hours we were in the car and revived the "lost art of conversation." It was great having three adults talk-relatives, life, death, sports, politics (be careful), and just things in general. I enjoy conversation as much as ball games and probably remember more about topics than scores.
MEMO TO SELF-Stop interrupting other people when they are speaking-you might learn something.