BYU Game with An Apostle

Despite the broken toe, I was determined to make it to the BYU vs. UCLA football game. My sister Alyson and her husband, Brad, had a wedding and weren't able to go to yesterday's game, so they kindly gave their tickets to Denise and me. I called my dad and expressed a bit of a concern about having to walk from where we would park to the stadium. My dad suggested that if I didn't think I could walk that far, I could just drive my car to a nearby corner instead and probably make a whole bunch of money scalping my tickets. Tempting, but no. Morgan and Brynne were so excited that Denise and I had matching shirts (thanks Mom and Dad), so they took this picture of us before we left.
Denise was kind enough to offer to drop me off right at the stadium, but I wanted to enjoy the whole experience. Back in "the day", I always had to walk to the game with my roommates. It was fun to walk with all the people and feel the excitement of game day as you walked toward the stadium. In the end, we ended up parking a good half mile or more away from the stadium and I just walked on the side of my foot so as to not put pressure on the pinkie toe. (A load of Ibuprofen helped too.)

We took a picture of my dad, mom, me and Denise all together before everyone got there and filled up all the seats. It was fun to be there together, but we figured out in the first half that if we started to talk and quit paying attention to the game we'd miss something. BYU won the game 59-0, so you can imagine that there was always something happening.
We waited a while to leave after the game hoping to avoid some of the foot traffic (more people to accidentally step on someone's hurt toe). When Denise and I were leaving the stadium, we looked over and noticed Elder L. Tom Perry (an apostle from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). He was shaking hands and taking a picture with a little boy. I shook his hand and Denise snapped this photo for me. He was very polite and cordial to those who wanted to greet him. Denise pointed out that if you look over and see someone dressed in a suit at a BYU game, then you know you want to take a moment to say hello. :)
After the game, we went to Denise's house for pizza. (Her neice Becca had watched my girls for me -- thanks Becca!) What a fun day! With the exception of a hurt toe, I felt young again! :)