Alan and I drove down to WPI today to watch Lex in two events. The women’s basketball team beat Emerson today, with help from (I’m sure) the awesome WPI pep band! They put on another great show – the band and the team!

(This is a playlist of four videos. Just click play and let it go!)

Then we grabbed some food court food, then headed to the WPI’s Go(a)t Talent Show. Lex is in a newly formed (last year) Video Game Orchestra. He’s one of the officers and founding members. Tonight they performed a piece that he arranged! It’s the “Moon Theme” from the Duck Tales Nintendo (NES) game. I’m sure we all know the song well. LOL. He listened to the song a bunch, then wrote an arrangement for the orchestra. Boggles my brain how he can do that, but I love it!

One of the MCs was a new Dean of the Engineering Dept and got coopted in MCing the talent show. It was his wife’s birthday so he had the VGO play Happy Birthday for her. Lex says they found out last minute and had very little practice. Afterwards he said, “I think we’re all collectively a little embarrassed by that one.” LOL

Because it was a talent show we saw a variety of performances and then voted at the end. Between acts, the MCs did trivia and gave out WPI shirts as prizes. The audience had a lot of fun participating and I even won a shirt! Even better, when all the votes were in, the VGO ended up winning Best in Show! Lex and his group were so excited!! The handful of VGO kids still there at the end went up on stage to collect their trophy and t-shirt prizes. Apparently the white ULTRA FAN shirts are highly coveted on campus and rarely given out.

The President of the college showed up at the talent show too! Lex says she randomly shows up at events. She even said “have a good night” to me and Alan after the show. She was just being friendly, but I felt special. LOL.

Another excellent day at WPI. I really like the school, the campus, and, of course, Lex!