All the Houses meet in the Stadium (which is outdoors and nice in August) and they all have bid day shirts on, and are carrying "Bid Buckets" full of GLO stuff (keyrings, notepads, letters, etc) and each has a bid day shirt in it as well. We also have balloons in each house color attached to the buckets (some houses have the money and carry in Ballon arches in the house colors, and they just look so neat!) and HUGE banners or Letters that we carry in front of each group. Everyone sings house songs and cheers and waits for the Rushees/PNM to come into the starium in their Rho Chi groups. Then they sit in a line and the Rho Chi's get in the front on the lines (wearing their house bid day shirt underneath their RX shirt) and by now all the Houses are cheering "We want our Rho Chi's" sooo loud! Then, one by one, the RX's reveal their houses and usually get tackled before they can even run back to the groups. It's so fun to see how each group will meet their RX.. sometimes they can still stand up, and sometimes it's just a huge pile! Once all the RX's are back at their houses, (now we start cheering "We want our Rushees!") Pan tells the PNM's to open their bid cards and then they run to the House they got (or walk out of the stadium if they didn't) and it's more singing and picture taking and hugging. It is so high energy and people come to the stadium just to watch! I got to watch this year in the stands (even tho I got asked to come down to greet our PNM's, I wanted to see it from the other side) and it is really an amazing thing to see...
