What a weekend and it's only Saturday night. I have been such the social butterfly the past few days, soaking up what it means to live in a college town. There are a lot of reasons why my mom and dad decided to stay in Lawrence after college but Homecoming weekend was one of the big ones. My mom and dad met making a homecoming float their junior year of college. My mom's sorority paired with my dad's fraternity to make a float with moveable parts. My dad's fraternity was largely an engineering fraternity and they are all very smart. Their float won the homecoming competition that year and mom and dad started dating right after. So every year during homecoming my mom and dad go to the parade and think about how much fun they had in college.
This year the homecoming parade was a lot different because it was down Mass St. and not on KU campus. There was also a scheduling issue and it was at the exact same time as the zombie walk to raise money and canned goods for the hungry. People bring a canned good and they dress like zombies. Then, they walk by zombies up and down Mass St. It was so funny to see a pep rally with a football coach and people dressed like the undead walking around the same area. I loved every minute of it. My mom and dad dressed in Ku gear but they dressed me up like a zombie. I really hated the process of having makeup put on my face and body so it wasn't perfect but I think people understood the look that I was going for. We were quite the group but I had a blast. Not scared at all!
That's all for now because it is past my bedtime and I am going to get my pictures taken tomorrow so I need my beauty rest. Tomorrow I will tell you all about how my mom was almost trampled trying to get into late night at Allen Fieldhouse. This is a humorous story but you will have to wait til tomorrow.
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