Be bold; wear gold

You might know that MSU’s basketball game against Southeast Missouri State was on ESPN2 yesterday. If not, now you do. So the atmosphere was a bit more energetic than usual. The whole bottom level got free T-shirts and some of us had these foam spirit stick things. (Yes, that’s really the best description I’ve got!) The student was even more jam-packed than usual and people were just wound up. Everything was just louder.

All of that to say, this is how Cate spent the 20 minutes before tip-off and the first part of the game …

Then she spent some time with Uncle Charles and Aunt Angela — and one of those foam spirit stick things. At first she wasn’t sure …

But then she caught on. (Who cares that it’s upside down!)

Things calmed down for the women’s game that followed. Really kind of anti-climatic following the one-point, down-to-the-wire men’s game. Cate still entertained herself. This time with the program.