reasons to love manhattan #3

the sky!

and don't bother me with silly details like the fact that everyone has the sky.  i'm telling you, if you want big wide open spaces, move to kansas. this time of year i really start missing michigan and all it's trees and beautiful color tours, but it's hard to beat all this:

bright skies:

and some gorgeous sunsets that seem to stretch on and on:

reasons to love manhattan #2

kstate football!

saturday i attended my first wildcat football game. {and sadly my last, because football games are outrageously long and my system can't handle being outdoors for more than 15 minutes. literally}

but, besides the sneezing and watery eyes, it was awesome!

 {our favorite player, #8 daniel thomas}

 i may have mentioned it before, but wildcat pride is pretty fierce here, so you can imagine the crazy excited energy going on in that stadium.

so even after the game was delayed for over an hour because of lighting and heavy rain {which we waited out in the stadium} it was full by the time play resumed.

{during the rain}

{and after. completely packed!}

i think you should all come visit so i can take you to a game and you can experience thousands of people doing the wabash cannonball {our unofficial school song}

{and oh yeah, we won! we're 0-4!}

reasons to love manhattan #1

wildcat pride!

it's football season! and to celebrate, last weekend the city kicked off with "purple power play on poyntz" the annual street festival held in historic downtown {on poyntz street}

and we painted the town purple.

more accurately, more purple than it already was.

and this weekend we did it all over again for the annual band march. 

 there's always something for a wildcat to do around town, and i'm trying to soak up as much spirit in our last year here as possible!