Aggieland

Soon after the 2011 Aggie football schedule was announced and tickets were available for purchase, Wes purchased four tickets for our family to attended the Texas A&M vs The University of Kansas football game as my birthday present this year.   We'd been excited about our first trip to Aggieland as a family for months.

Wes having lived in southeast Kansas while in high school is a KU fan, and I'm an A&M fan.  Neither of us attended either of these schools as we meet while attending a smaller private Christian University; however, we still hold true to our state schools of choice.

We arrived in College Station, Texas, on Thursday night, November 17, 2011.  * We may have extended our trip by a couple hours after realizing about 60 miles down the road that the tickets for the game were still in Hurst.  On Friday we took a campus walking tour and visited the campus bookstore where we purchased some more Aggie gear.  Game day Saturday was an awesome experience even with arriving half way through the first quarter because we didn't double check the game time.  Apparently it was moved from a 2:30 pm kickoff to an 11:00 am kickoff earlier in the week.  Oops!  We finished off our Aggieland visit on Sunday with a visit to the Bonfire Memorial then the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

As we headed north towards home the kids wanted to know when we'd be back to Aggieland, and I was already wishing we had tickets to the A&M vs Texas game on Thanksgivng.  It turned out I was able to secure us four tickets for the game on Thanksgiving and so we left our home around 11:00 am headed to College Station and Aggieland!   This time all four of us were decked out in our Aggie gear, and we arrived with plenty of time for all the fun pregame activities.

Here is a photo slideshow of our two visits to Aggieland.  Enjoy!