EX'S AND O'S: LP High School Football and Parade

Aug 26, 2011

Instead of football practice today we had a event to go to. The boys where told to go to the LP football field and their team's coaches would be announced as they team paraded around the field. It was a good thought but I am not sure it was planed out correctly. I had my boys at the ramp to meet their team at 5:45 pm (rather be early then late) and around 6 pm their team and coaches did start to show up. The parade as far as what I could tell was supposed to happen around 6 pm, so Ashley and I bought our tickets and headed into the event. We where told that we would have to pick our kids up after they where done marching (which makes sense). Unfortunately the section in which they wanted parents to sit in was on the complete opposite side of where we had to pick up our kids. And I figured we would only be sitting for a couple of minutes before I would have to get up and bring Ashley to go get the boys, and in the process lose the seats we would of had. So instead we stood by the fence to not miss the parade and have easy access to the exit. We stood for an hour. Ashley was not happy and kept asking to sit on a bench, which there was none by us that she could sit on because they where reserved for ticket holders (assigned seating) or for students only. I was upset and asked about the situation. Only because their are now close to 400 kids (the youngest in 2nd grade on the side of the street when it is getting dark and only with their coaches)! The guy that heard me said he would go check on the kids. I don't know him and he does not know my kids. He did not understand that I was uncomfortable leaving my kids in that situation for that amount of time! I got no help from him. Eventually (an hour later 10 mins later, my recording started around 7:10 pm) the parade started. They did not clear the field of the two teams about to play, because for some reason they where announced first and they where practicing their kicking and throwing. So footballs where flying every where and even into the parade of kids. And the crowd was loud and cheering for the LP High School or visiting team and really didn't seem to pay much attention to our players. They need to rethink this idea for next year!

I finally sat down with the kids to watch the LP High School football team. It was not easy to find seats. Attempting to throw in 400 more kids into an all ready packed arena was not easy. The kids seemed to enjoy at least the first two quarters of the game and by the third Ashley and Kyle where ready to go home. We stayed for the last quarter only because Tyler wanted to. The LP Cavalier's ended up losing. We finally walked into our house around 10:30 pm. We have a very early morning. Ashley is getting pick up to go to soccer while I take the boys to their football game!

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