No Happy Campers

Just a quick update as I am hosting the Relief Society lunch bunch here at our house in exactly 3 hrs and I have alot of picking up and cleaning to do before then! Last time it was here, about 30 people came with a ton of food and we had a good time, so I hope this will be fun too. I also really hope my kids cleaned their rooms and made their beds today!

Last Wednesday, I drove to Knoxville,TN with Taryn, Indy & Joe and his friend Adam. It was a school day off for parent teacher conferences. We went to take a tour of University Tennessee Knoxville (UTK). We had the largest group on a packed tour. Two other students from our county that go to different high schools were there too. Amazingly enough, some used to be our neighbors. Indy pointed it out to me, and I didn't see it at first, but perhaps it was because the little gal grew like 2 feet since then, I think she had to be close to 6'. They had moved away, then moved back. Indy couldn't believe I started talking to them. What?! Geez, she doesn't know me very well! They all got a good laugh when I wasn't paying attention because I was talking to the mom, and when I saw that there was only one seat left for me on the bus, I plopped down and said to my girls "hey, thanks for saving me a seat! oh well, Adam likes me!" only it wasn't Adam I said it to! Oops! That's what I get for talking and not looking where I was going. So of course, I just laugh at myself and go, "so who are you anyway?" but he didn't answer - he just looked out his window! My goodness, how anti-social can you get? I thought Joe was going to fall off his seat laughing at me.

This was our first state university visit, and we were surprised at how ugly it was. I guess starting with Belmont and Vanderbilt spoiled us. We expected to find a nice campus, and expected not to be impressed with the dorms (because Vanderbilt really spoiled us). Well the campus was icky, I dubbed the dorms Cell Block C, and both Joe and I remarked to Indy, about 15 minutes apart from each other, that nobody seemed happy there. Serioulsy, I've never seen a more unengaged, dreary, downtrodden group of people! Countenances have a lot of say and "the feel" of the place put us off. Adam liked it, but it was his first campus visit and he has friends that go there. So overall, it was a good visit to know what to cross off the list, unless they pay us to go there, and then, as Indy put it, "if the offer is more attractive than the campus, we'll revisit it". Sorry, no photos. It was soooo uninspiring that we forgot to take any!!!