Football Returns - Big

Our activities for the day yesterday - which were not much to talk about - took a back seat to the return of the High School Football season in Naperville, IL. It was the first game of the new season for Austin's team (Waubonsie Valley)and we were lucky to be able to watch most of it on a TV station - High School Cube - that broadcast his game as the game of the week in their conference. They are a station that broadcasts games in different parts of the country by streaming the broadcast on cell phones, I-Pads, computers - you name it. Our reception was not the best in this area but we were able to see enough of the game between slow feeds to know that it was an exciting game.

The game was played against a very good Naperville Central Team that made the playoffs last year and will probably make the playoffs again this year. Austin's team won 34-14, and Austin was clearly the star of the game. In fact, he was named the station's MVP for the game after scoring 3 touchdowns and running for almost 300 yards. There were numerous runs in the 15 to 25 yard range, including touchdown runs of 34 yards and 11 yards, and Naperville Central was not able to stop him. We are very proud of him and can't wait for the rest of the season's games to follow his progress toward what we hope will result in some tough scholarship choices from colleges. The announcer on the station kept saying that colleges will be watching him and scrambling to sign him.

Except for Josie baking some cookies and a trip to the store, the rest of the day was just spent around the fifth wheel catching up on taped TV shows. Thanks to Austin for making our day...