Red River at the Rivalry-Part 1

There has been a LONG standing division in Rob's family when it comes to Texas & OU. Half of the men in the family LOVE one & the other half LOVE the other. Rob has for as long as he can remember LOVED OU. At first it was a love of his because his Uncle Jim loved them & he did EVERYTHING Jim did. As time went on he loved them for their players & their GREAT football. From the time Caleb was born Rob couldn't wait for our children to be old enough to take a road trip over The Red River. Now that we have 2 boys the division of the 2 teams lives on. Caleb LOVES OU, Cade LOVES Texas. Back in December we took a very long road trip & on the way home took Cade on a tour of the University of Texas. We decided to only be fair & take a trip to the University of Oklahoma for Caleb. We did a little research & found out that the perfect time for a trip was the first weekend in August........can you say HOT????? The players would be beginning 2 a days and you could go meet the players. So we surprised the boys with a trip. Rob wanted us to get up EARLY so we could be there by 10 AM. We left 5 minutes later then he wanted & even with a couple of stops for food and pics we made it right on time.

loaded up & ready to go

In my family you always stop for breakfast on a road trip @ McDonalds...so that is what we did.

We stopped at the welcome center right over the Red River, but it wasn't even open yet.

When we got back in the car both boys (on their own) fell asleep.

Welcome to Norman & The University of Oklahoma.......Rob was beside himself, he was soooo excited.

Caleb woke up and we told him we were there........this face is priceless.

walking up to meet the players

Each person is allowed to bring 1 item to be signed. I made the boys something that would hopefully be big enough to get all the autographs.

walking up & seeing the crowd. the players sit under the tents.....in the shade.....did i mention it was HHHHOOOTTT?????

Caleb with his FAVORITE OU player.

Rob wanted me to try & get a picture of Bob Stoops.

We finally made it back to the car. We were all soooo hot & sweaty, but had a great time.

After we were in the car & cooled off we drove around the campus & stopped to take lots of pictures.

OU baseball field

Then we ventured downtown walked around & ate lunch. We really did have such a great time.

After we drove around some we decided to make our way to our hotel, but of course what trip is complete without first finding a Wal*Mart?

We showered, layed around, ate dinner, walked around the mall (all of which I didn't get pictures of) then went back to the hotel and fell asleep.

We had a great 1st day in Norman, OK!!!!!!!!!