Bearcat Land

Since this is my mom's last week of maternity leave, our family is making the most of the time by getting in all the things we didn't do the first seven weeks of her time off. First on the list was a journey to the 'Ville to visit Bobby Bearcat's home...aka the campus of Northwest Missouri State University where both of my parents attended college. It's a beautiful campus, chuck full of trees (as it should be since it's a state arboretum) and old brick buildings. Pictured below is the big Admin building in the center of campus adorned with a "Welcome to Northwest" banner for all the new and returning students.
My mom is rather cheesy sometimes and wanted a family photo in front of North. That's the dorm where both her and dad lived and where they met! Dad lived on the second floor - his room was just behind that tree past Mom. Mom lived on the fourth floor, in the room with only two windows just beside Dad's head. The dorm is now the home to the Missouri Academy, a Math and Science advanced school for high school junior and seniors.

Just behind Colden Hall is Colden Pond and the Kissing Bridge. Mom wanted to get some photos of me and my sister in this area of campus since she said it's so pretty. She said she always loved to take photos in this area of campus. See how good I am holding up my head now?
We walked all over campus. Imagine the look on all the student's faces seeing two strollers and four red heads walking around.... And Daphne wanted to play with everything, so her and Mom would wander off leaving Dad with the two strollers (me tucked safely inside the big one sleeping most of the time). And someONE kept getting hungry for his bottle. Hmmm, wonder who that could be? So dad and I went inside the student union to eat... Well, I ate, everyone else was still full from the Pagliai's (pronounced like Poly Eye's) Pizza, the best pizza in the entire world!
Just outside of the union is a statue (it wasn't there when my parents were students) of two college students - one from 1905 reading from a book and another from 2005 typing on a laptop in honor of the NWMSU Centennial. I was put in the arms of the 1905 student for some odd reason...
After walking...er riding...around campus all day, I was sure ready to get out of this stroller and enjoy the comfort of my parents' arms! I'm not sure I'm quite ready for college life just yet...