Yesterday was “Purple Friday” in Baltimore because of today’s football game. The Ravens are playing the Colts. The Colts used to be in Baltimore, so that makes this game all the more emotionally charged. In anticipation of today’s game, all kinds of businesses have changed their regular landscape lighting for purple light bulbs, people have banners up, streetside vendors are selling Ravens clothing and accessories, and everyone is wearing purple. We decided to let the kids come dressed that way if they brought in a canned food or a cleaning product. These things all went to a local church that serves people in a poorer area of town.
I didn’t have anything that said “Ravens”, so I just had to go with the purple thing. Fortunately, I did have a purple shirt. I also had a purple tie, but it was from the eighties, so it was really skinny. Since I’m always putting up pictures of my head, here is a picture of my body without my head. 🙂
The Baltimore kicker/punter, (both!) is Sam Koch from Seward, Nebraska! He was drafted after playing for the Nebraska Cornhuskers….Go Ravens! I think I”ll wear purple and red today. If you check with Lauren, I think they are the new hot colors!
And, Brad, when you tell the kids how cool it is that the Ravens’ kicker is from Seward, make sure you pronounce his last name correctly. It’s Koch, but you say Cook.
Way to spoil it Beth!
Why aren’t you wearing brown pants? Brown and lavender is so hot right now!
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She’s a cutie!