Family Weekend at Southwest Minnesota State Universitys

We had a wonderful weekend visiting our son at college.  It had been a month already since we went to Marshall to move him in.  Our oldest couldn't go with because of work.  It was just my husband and K that went with.

We picked up K early from school and started on our three hour drive.  The toughest part is getting from our end of the cities to the other.  Once we are past that, it is only about two hours.

The drive was beautiful and perfect weather.  The farmers fields though looked bad from the heat, drought and then hail storms they have had.  K was in the back seat listening to her music and napping.  Next to her was the refrigerator that A wanted for his room.  I was in front and was listening to my music.  With the invention of GPSs, the passenger is not needed to read maps.  I love it.  My husband had his music playing through the car stereo.

We arrived to Marshall around supper time.  After going to our son's dorm to pick him up, he immediately told us where he wanted to go.  While eating, K talked to her brother non stop.  W and I wanted to ask him things and A wanted to tell us things, but K barely to breaks to even eat.  After supper we went to the student center to watch Iron Man 3.  Not my kind of movie, but it was free and we were with our son.  After that was over, we walked around the center for a while and then left him at his dorm and we went to our hotel.  We were tired from the drive.

It is Saturday now, and the first thing again he wants to do is go and have breakfast.  The college only serves lunch and supper on the weekends.  A is a skinny, tall kid that eats forever.  We take him to Walmart to do some shopping.  There is no Target in Marshall, and that does not make him happy.  The college has a free lunch for families.  It was good and we even met the dean for the area that A is majoring in.  There was a man who drew caricatures there and we all did that.  A got his room set up with the new chair, frig and microwave.  They had nearby high school marching bands there for a competition.  The problem, they had admission to watch and we were not prepared for that.  A took us on a tour of the campus some more and then we called it a night.

It is Sunday morning and K says she needs to get home to do homework and A says he has some also.  We have breakfast and then say goodbye.  We once again make the three hour trip back home.  We won't see him now until Thanksgiving.  We miss him but with K looking at colleges herself and preparing for graduation, we do stay busy.

Here are pictures of the campus at Southwest Minnesota State University.