Homecoming 2015

'Sup yo! [If you've been around me at all lately, you'll know I've started saying "sup" a lot. I don't know exactly where I got it, but it's totally a thing.]

This week was BYU's homecoming.

If you're a normal BYU student, this means blue foam, blue pancakes, a David Archuleta-BYU performing groups concert, maybe a dance, and the football game. 

If you're not a normal BYU student (meaning you do ballroom), this means 6:30 am rehearsals, doughnuts and hot chocolate that you really can't eat because you'll throw up if you do, and dancing/sprinting for 2 miles in a parade. 

This year, we also got asked to dance at half time of the football game as the Cougar Band (the marching band) played their music. Way cool, right? I don't know if that's ever happened before, so we liked to pretend it was kind of a big deal. But mostly, it made an already long day longer. 

Homecoming day ended up being a total blast though. While we were standing by the Marriott Center, kind of munching on doughnuts and chatting with each other, the folk dancers had nice and loud speakers blasting super fun music. 

Something you should know about dancers? We have a hard time just sitting still and watching when there is music playing. So naturally, we had to crash their party. Don't worry, it turned into an even bigger party. Hands down one of the best parts of the day. We were all dancing and singing our hearts out without a care in the world, and it was so. much. fun! [If you click here, it will take you to their Facebook page and you can see just a little bit of how crazy awesome that dance party was.] 

Right before the parade. PC: Jai

Then we danced in the parade and it was all great and fun and I high-fived lots of little kids and cheered and yelled and killed my calves. This year though, I was really good after the parade and rolled out my body, then iced my ankle/lower leg. If you saw the picture I posted on Facebook/Instagram, don't worry, I definitely was not injured. I mean, if I'm telling people that they should be icing after practice and stuff, I should too, right? Right.

We met back up again at the football stadium to dance our hearts out for those fans who couldn't even see our faces. We waited in the band room until it was time to head down to the field. You could see the scoreboard if you stood right by the window, or you could watch the game on the projector. Kind of weird to watch the game on TV while actually being at the game.

some of the lovely ladies of back-up tour

 I have to say that the coolest part of the experience was actually being down on the field while the game was still going on. I couldn't see much, but it was pretty neat anyway. Dancing was a weird feeling, since we were so far away from anyone that could actually see us, but I can say that I got to walk and dance and run on BYU's hallowed football field and perform for the biggest crowd of my life.

We also got to stay and watch the game afterward. Yay for winning the homecoming game, but less yay for quarterbacks who keep getting hurt. Come on, guys! 

Happy homecoming!