Christmas dinner was on Thursday, and it is packed full of traditions. The Plebes(freshmen) decorate the tables and get cigars for everyone else. The entire Corps shows up in “Full Dress,” eats a little bit of food, stands on the chairs to sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” then goes outside to smoke cigars.
The day of the Army/Navy football game is the single most important day in West Point Culture. The game happened on Saturday. I elected to take a bus with several hundred other cadets to and from the game (affectionately called The Boomerang Buses), but a lot of people get hotels and stay near the game. I woke up at 4:10 to get on a bus to the game in Philadelphia. The actual game wasn’t too exciting until the second overtime period when Army won with a field goal. The buses didn’t get back to West Point until 12:30 that night, so it was a very long day.
