Back to College!

At the end of October, we headed south for the weekend - back to campus!  It was Homecoming Weekend at the University of Illinois, and Erik and I, along with my 3 best college girlfriends and their families, took the crew back down to campus for our own little reunion weekend.  We had an absolute blast.  We rented a home just a few minutes off campus that easily held our crew of 8 adults and 12 kids.  The kids refer to it as the "glass house" because that's literally how it was listed on the rental website - a unique house full of floor-to-ceiling windows on literally every wall (which were all curved, too).  It was a really odd, but fascinating house, and it worked for the weekend!  We spent our time touring old campus haunts, lounging on the quad, of course taking in the Homecoming football game, and paying a leisurely visit to the DG house.  How fun it was to show our kids where the 4 of us moms used to hang out together - our old bedrooms, the sunroom, the big kitchen hall.  They were able to walk the halls and find all of our pictures hanging in various places.  The house does a great job of always making it feel like home and making us forever feel welcome there as alumni.  It was also fun to be able to show the kids where Erik and I met, and show them what our lives were like back then!  I'm betting that out of that big group of 12 kiddos, we might have a few future Illini!