Bennington is like no other football stadium I've seen, even in rural Kansas. Both groups of fans will be sitting on the same side, and as luck would have it, Smith Center has the fans behind their bench. The press box is next to nothing, and Smith Center's TV and radio are in the stands and had to run an extra, extra long extension cord to an outlet inside a box on a light pole. Interesting indeed. The field is oriented east-west, which means the sun will set behind one end zone rather than behind the stands, which is the case at most stadiums. Smith Center, Shawnee Mission North and Moscow are skewed to certain degrees and the sun sets at odd angles in those places.
I had to make a couple of stops in Salina before coming up to Bennington, and I decided to go to the Cozy Inn, a famous hamburger joint downtown. It's not much, just a counter and six stools, and four of them were taken up by patrons. I got 12 cozys--which are like Krystal and White Castle burgers--to go and ate six at Bennington when I arrived. I made Jesse Rhea, the radio play-by-play announcer for KQMA, jealous but he acknowledged it was a smooth move.
The new iPhone is waiting at home. I'll charge it, sleep and then activate it before leaving for Oberlin. I'll have to learn it on the go tomorrow, but I just want to learn enough to use Twitter and a couple of other applications. I'll take next week to learn more now that I don't have volleyball until the weekend, if at all, and no football until Thursday.
Okay, time to pack the computer and get the camera ready. Probably won't check in until I get back to Russell, but who knows.
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