Our first Friday Night Lights of 2025 is in the books!
We scrimmaged against Danville Community High School in Danville, Indiana, a small but beautiful town in western Indiana.
But football isn't the only attraction in Danville.
It is MANDATORY for us to eat at The Mayberry Cafe before the game.
I've never watched the TV show, but I enjoy this local cafe that is dedicated to it.
The food is 1950s Hoosier/home cooking and excellent. Everything is homemade, even the tartar and other sauces and gravies!
TVs around the dining room stream the show while you eat
and there is a kindness from the wait staff that goes above and beyond. (Learning that we lived an hour away and only ate there once a year, our waitress surprised us by bringing us the house specialty appetizer. No charge! That's her in the background behind Craig.)
When we arrived at the field, the scrimmage had already begin.
The away team's bleachers faced directly into the sun, and it was still quite hot from the day.
Craig and Lisa began discussing this year's prospects for our team, pointing out players from last year who were making good plays, and so on.
Because I had my walker, we did not sit up high in the bleachers as usual. There were seats for those who had walkers and wheelchairs down low near the accessibility ramp so we had a bird's eye view of the team and scrimmage.
No, I'm not praying that our team does well! The heat, direct sunlight, and long, long hike from the parking lot, around the field, and into the bleachers had exhausted me. I had some water and after closing my eyes for a while, I felt a little better. The sun finally slipped behind the trees and that helped, too.
No score was kept, but Lisa and Craig were very happy with how the team was looking and feel we will be having a good season. "Unless we have injuries!" (Always the caveat, right?)
Usually at football games the high school band is out in full force and playing throughout the game. That doesn't happen for scrimmages. But there was another kind of music. Listen to this!
Such a beautiful summer sound! And so loud, they drowned out the noise on the field and in the stands! (Those are cicadas who are in the trees behind the home team's bleachers.)
Our first Friday Night Lights is in the books and already we are looking forward to next week - when Craig's high school team will play mine.
Stay 'tooned for THAT one! LOL
