A Day With Our Guy in Bloomington

Today was a beautiful Spring day in the 

American Midwest.  A much appreciated

Spring day after the long, rough Winter

we have experienced.

We headed a few hours southwest to 

visit the beautiful campus of Indiana

University in Bloomington.

Our guy in Bloomington, Brennan was

being honored today as a Founders Scholar.

There are a lot of smart kids at IU, well 

over 3000 students were being honored 

today at the Honors Convocation.

Here is our guy shaking hands with

the representative from his school.

Afterwards, there was a reception outside

around the fountain.

At the library there was a book sale and since

it was almost the end of the day, we were told

you could fill a box for $2.  Yeeps!  I regret I 

didn't buy one of the big old dictionaries, I have

always wanted one of them on a stand in our

house and the price was certainly right...

Then it was off to explore campus and 

enjoy the fabulous day.  IU is a beautiful

campus and it is fun to walk around and 

admire the architecture.  Look at that 

gorgeous blue sky!  It is the kind of sky 

that my British friend Lucie Anne used to 

call a lovely American sky.

I had never noticed these lampposts before.

This quote generated a long discussion

of life-blood.

Then it was out through the Sample gates

to find some ice cream.

I love a good ice cream shop with an 

inventive ice cream maker.  I tried

dark chocolate with basil and blueberry

with lavender.  I was disappointed that

they ran out of the Drunken Pig flavor ~

bacon, maple syrup, bourbon and pecans.

Interesting...

Tons of people were out and about in

Kirkwood today.

We kissed our guy good-bye and headed home and

were delighted with this spectacular sunset.