<<< Photo courtesy of Fred Ellis – Thanks Fred!

Come one come all, come here to hear us tell the tale of DiaDel…SoSo.

We tracked through the day to bring you the highlights – no not the colors on display between 9th and 11th, as that joke would be as trite and overdone as a Sic ‘Em during Welcome Week – but rather the true high (not that kind) points of the day.

For starters the next few weeks, homeless men and women will no longer be digging through garbage bins for cans, and instead will be finding them in gutters, bushes, basketball nets, pool noodles and underneath missing tank tops. You can also feel safe handing your spare cash to them the next week or so because you know they won’t be using it to get drunk – they’ll just sit on tenth for a couple minutes to make that happen.

Other positives about Dia included the community building between MCC and Baylor during the Jack Ingram concert. “Dr. Pepper” was rampant amongst the crowd and the stage and bridged the gap from Fountain Mall to 10th. Apparently there was so much Dr. Pepper floating around in the campus vicinity that Chapel Ryan’s real twitter account tweeted something a fake account would probably have tweeted for him.

The irony of a ZZZ party getting shut down but DiaDelTenth thriving throughout the day was surely not lost on us, also not lost on us was the incredulous amount of money poured into campus Dia festivites to which most students, even freshmen, don’t go. If DiaDelTenth was thriving, DiaDelOso was barely surviving. Some might call it a carnival, but for anyone who goes to carnivals they’ll tell you that it’s a far cry from it. And that’s coming from someone who goes to carnivals.

And in case you were wondering… yes, DiaDelOso is the actual name. It might sound weird to you as it is everyone and their favorite KD friend’s favorite thing to use wordplay in order to never call Dia by its real name. Diadelbroso, Diadelohno, Diadelcatholic (no seriously, this is all over the sidewalk chalk.. we could write an entire series of posts over what might happen at Diadelcatholic but we could sum it up by telling you to picture Diadeltenth but with indulgences for sale at Bagby), DiadelMantation (as if Baylor wasn’t already white enough), DiaDelohyougettheidea.

In the end, whether you were drowning in Dr. Pepper or holed up in Moody because your professor scheduled a test today, you probably had at least one (and possibly up to a thousand) Holy FRAT!! moments.

Thanks for bearing with our Day of the Bear recap, we’ll have more breakdown in the coming week, after all today is the Friday after Dia and we really don’t encourage going to class which almost always directly correlates with our desire to have a post ready for you.

Deep in the heart of sleeping in,

- The BaylorGuys