Saturday, September 06, 2008

Joshua's Moment of Fame

Today's LSU football game was re-scheduled due to the continuing clean up of the mess that Hurricane Gustav left in his wake. Joshua reports that the campus is in pretty good shape for electrical power, but about 2/3 of the city of Baton Rouge is still without power. Moreover, there are sections of the surrounding parish (a Louisiana county - strong Catholic heritage) that may not have power restored for several more weeks.

Last week's game was moved ahead by several hours in order to get the spectators in and out of town before they could impede evacuation traffic coming northwest from New Orleans. The photo below shows Joshua marching to the stadium:



That's my boy! (As of yesterday, he's 18.)

6 comments:

Josh said...

Actually, at that point, we're not marching, we're running. Its tradition that we stop at the top of Victory Hill outside the stadium and then play Pregame then start running when we get to the second part of it while still playing.

Jenn said...

several weeks without power??? i'll take a snowstorm any day thank-you!

Dave said...

The photo was posted on LSU's sports page.

Barbara said...

happy birthday Josh. Running and playing at the same time???? That takes talent.

Dave said...

Barb, you can catch the band playing and running in this youtube clip.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk-KPkdIHqM Josh flashes past at the4:20 mark (2nd in on the second last trombone row). Their run is more of a trot. LOL

Catharine said...

Fun times at university! Oh to remember those days...