Road Trip 2010--Days 4 and 5

With our time in Salt Lake over, we packed up the car and started south to Provo.  It was so surreal to be back on campus again.  For me, my time at BYU is irreplaceable and truly seems like it was just days ago.  When I stepped onto campus, I all of a sudden felt the years that I had been away and I felt how much I have changed and I realized that it wasn't just days ago.  It was over 8 years ago!  I'll admit it was in some ways a sad feeling.  Campus is beautiful and I enjoyed being there, but I truly felt like I wanted to stop the students walking by and tell them to enjoy every single moment because in a blink of an eye they would be me, the alum from 8 years ago, dragging her two toddlers onto campus for an afternoon of reminiscing.  It all goes way too fast!

One of our first stops was the bookstore.  I seriously forgot how much I miss living near a large and decent LDS bookstore.  I could have spent hundreds of dollars and many hours in there.  Thank goodness I have some willpower!  We also enjoyed lunch in the Cougar Eat (only Subway was open) while we were there.  After all of that, we strolled around for just a bit and then went into the Talmadge Building, where Reid showed us where he spent a good chunk of his life working on his Masters' Degree.  Once we were done walking we went to get ice cream at the Creamery on 9th.  By this point I knew that we would be eating so much ice cream on the trip that it was just unfair to deny Finn and so he joined the ice cream eating party with us.  Yay for almost being 1!

Lunch in the Cougar Eat

Ok, I seriously laughed when I saw this bed tucked away in a

corner of one of the nastiest smelling bathrooms I have ever been in.

Is this a general college thing or is it a BYU specialty to sleep in

bathrooms?  I know I did it a time or two myself, but I'm curious

if this happens on campuses across the US or just at the Y.

(So I'm having blogging issues that I'll have to work on later.  But the
panda picture is from Kung Fu Panda.  A graduate of the BYU computer science
department worked on the movie and so now there's a big panda in the building.)
Kai and the Y

Finn and the Y

Kai, Finn, and Brigham Young

After our Provo visit, we loaded back into the car and drove out to Kamas, Utah to visit Reid's sister Kara and her family.  We spent the afternoon visiting and then all went out to eat at the restaurant where our niece Tessa works, as well as Kara.  We had a fabulous dinner and good time visiting.  Kai particularly loved playing with his cousins and being "on a farm".

On Sunday, we spent the day relaxing with Kara and her family.  In the afternoon, Colin took us out to meet all of the animals.  There are 3 dogs, 2 cats, about 20 chickens (I think), 2 goats, and 9 horses.  Did I leave anyone out guys?  It was nice to visit with family and to see them.  The only other time I had met Kara's family was at the Jones Family Reunion 2 years ago.  So, this was a good chance for me to get to know everyone better and for Kai to see his cousins.  We definitely had a good time!