I am not a fair-weathered fan in case anyone was wondering.

BYU vs. Texas. The first home game of the season. Yesterday morning I woke up out of my pants excited for the game! I did everything at super human speed when it came to getting ready for the day, and I was ready to go to the game at 10:30 a.m.  I went to the stadium with my friend Ashlyn to check out the line for the student section.  It wasn't that long at all, but I wanted a good seat so I knew I had to join the line soon. I went back to my apartment to eat lunch and wait for my friend, Kaitlyn, to give me a call and tell me she was ready to go. After about an hour of not hearing from her, I gave her a call and she told me she was having computer problems and that I should go over to her apartment and we would leave from there. So I went. An hour later (about 2:30) we finally head over to the stadium and the line was HUGE and packed so full that even halfway through the line (where we were able to sneak in with a high school friend of mine, Madeline) we were still way far back in terms of being seated in the bleachers.  A few minutes before we went inside, the players walked by on their way into the locker room.  We high-fived them (as you can imagine) as they walked by. My hand touched Cody Hoffman, Kyle Van Noy, and Taysom Hill in case you were wondering.  I would say I would never wash my hand again but the story that is about to come kind of washed that notion down the drain.... literally.
The day was scorching hot. I don't say that lightly either, since I have been walking outside in the blistering sun everyday and thought I would be somewhat used to it by now. This was not the case. There were no clouds except for those coming over the mountains, so the sun was beating relentlessly down on us and there was no shelter since we were sitting on metal bleachers in an oval stadium. The sun was everywhere and like a prepared college student I was sitting there with nary a water bottle or a pair of sunglasses to my name.

Madeline and I with photo-bombers and a nice finger there in the corner:)

Kaitlyn and I at our first freshman game!!

It was about 3:45 when the clouds blew in like smoke. They came so fast that I hadn't even realized the sun was gone. The clouds were huge, dark, and menacing, and the temperature started to drop. All of a sudden the wind was blowing so hard that papers and leaves from outside the stadium had picked up and were flying through the air. I seriously thought I was going to end up in Kansas before this thing was over. And then like buckets the rain began to pour. It was raining so hard that the drops hurt my head and back as they pounded down relentlessly. At first all of the students just had a freaking party. We were dancing and jumping around and cheering like crazy, "BYU! BYU! BYU!" But after about ten minutes the wind and rain was coming so hard we could see the other side of the stadium and it was getting hard to breathe. Our clothes were soaked, obviously, by the time they rallied us all underneath the stadium. Once safe from the torrential rain storm, we started to party once again! I don't know how many times we sang the fight song, but if you didn't have it memorized before, you did now! We all went nuts when we sang the words "we will fight day or night, RAIN or snow!!" I was having a blast with my hair and clothes plastered to my body and by feet sloshing around in my socks and tennis shoes :) 

Me, trying unsuccessfully to protect my self from the marshmallow sized rain drops!

Singing the fight song under the stadium!

 We went outside and were called back in one more time before my friends decided they couldn't take the cold anymore and they went home. So by myself I went outside to sit on the fourth row of the end zone and make some new friends who probably all thought I was weird to come all alone, especially at a game like this. But how many craps did I give? Not many, my friends, not many. I  cheered and danced around with the best of them as it continued to come down, and flood the stands.  The people running the place tried their best to keep us entertained by bringing out popsicles and starting crazy cheers! I was laughing as hard as I ever had in my life with these people I have never met! It was awesome!

Eventually the rain stopped and the game started (which was a good thing because if the continuous sheets of rain would have gone on any longer we might have needed to build an ark!). What a great game! I mean Taysom? Seriously! He was so sick yesterday!!! To all of the people who bagged on him after his rocky start last week, all I have to say to you is watch out, because he is coming HARD!!

That was a home-opening game to remember! I can't wait to play the Utes! GO COUGS!