Back to College!

While in Raleigh for the football game, Eddie and I thought we would enjoy taking a little stroll down memory lane.  We met in Raleigh in early 2000 while I was a freshman at Meredith College (an all girls' school in the heart of Raleigh) and Eddie was a junior at N.C. State.  Before I met Eddie, I enjoyed hanging out with friends at N.C. State.  My friends from Meredith would head over there almost every night to hang out (you know this had nothing to do with the guys...haha!).  A friend I had made the summer before college at my first job was a freshman at State so we would hang out with him and his friends and suite mates mostly.  Sometimes we would just spend late nights walking around campus and acting like crazy kids away from home for the first time.  Yep, we were those college kids!  Thankfully, I met Eddie and settled down so as not to flunk out of college.  Hehe!  Anyway, these places just bring back great memories for Eddie and I, and we enjoyed showing Evan and Brody some of the fun spots.

Although I don't expect the boys have aspirations of attending Mommy's alma mater, I still wanted a picture in front of the school's fountain.  Hey, if they go to State, I suspect they'll want to hang out at Meredith for the girls.  ;-) 

I just love these State boys!

Me and my babies

The main drive into Meredith is very pretty with trees lining the street.  I should have taken more pictures, but we were ready for dinner. 

The iconic symbol for N.C. State is the bell tower.  Doesn't every school have a symbol like this?   

I thought the boys would like walking through the free expression tunnel on campus that goes under the railroad tracks.  

Just checking out the "art." 

Evan posing with some of the crazy drawings and writings. 

Brody liked this "doggie" and kept going back to it and barking. 

We tried to tell him it was supposed to be a wolf and get him to howl. 

Apparently, going green is big to college kids now.  

Broke college kids must paint for food. 

Inspiring

Interesting

Brody thought this was a wishing tree. 

Beethoven, anyone? 

Or the Notorious B.I.G.? 

These boys enjoyed howling at the moon with wolves. 

Silly wolves. 

These wolf sculptures were new to us. 

The boys liked riding the wolf. 

Cuties

And yes, I had to ride too.  I just knew a cop was going to come along while I was on it and arrest me.  Haha!  In my defense, there were other people on them before us. 

Me and my little man riding together. 

Evan wanted a picture with his State flag. 

I need to dig up some old pictures from my college days for old times sake, but here are a couple pictures on the computer that take me back:

Here are me and the girls after a big snow storm hit Raleigh in January of our freshman year.  It was great!  No classes all week, and we were snowed in.  

And this was an early picture of us together our first Christmas.  I was really in to putting crazy thought bubbles on photos back then.  Ha!