Cheer, Cheer

 Saturday was the first time the University of Notre Dame played Central Michigan University in a football game.  PH graduated from ND and our son and daughter-in-law graduated from CMU so it was a no brainer, as PH would say, that we would all go.  

It's been many years since we've been to a game in person and PH could hardly contain himself with excitement over the chance to go to this particular game with our son and his family. 

I must say, like travelling, it's a lot of work in getting there, but kudos to ND for crowd management.  The parking was nowhere near the stadium but they had shuttles.  The shuttles were all of the school busses in South Bend and neighboring towns so they held a lot of people.  There was a continuous flow of busses from the lots to the campus, they had their own traffic lane so there was no waiting for them, there was no waiting to get on a bus, it was continuous, smooth, so sane, so simple. We were dropped off in the center of campus, just very short walk to the stadium. It was most impressive.

The weather was perfect, a little overcast so we weren't in the full hot sun, t-shirt temperatures.  Could the smile on PH's face be any bigger?

It was a sold out crowd, about 80,000 people.

This is Touchdown Jesus.  The mural is on the tallest side of the library.

And you can see, from inside the stadium the mural is strategically aligned with the goal and of course he is signalling a touchdown. Everybody knows Touchdown Jesus.

We had a wonderful game day, and as you can see, Mike is the only Notre Dame fan in the family....at least for this game.