Catching Up Again -- University of Nebraska Kearney!

Hi Friends -- Oh my goodness -- how did I get so far behind again??? I pinky-promise to be a better blogger, but not sure anyone reads it anyway. So much to talk about, but only have a few minutes today, so it will be a quick update!

Some of you may have heard from FB or Instagram that my sweet Maddie decided to go away to college! Yep! She decided she wanted to go to University of Nebraska at Kearney (a couple hours away). UNK's mascot is the antelope so they are called Lopers! They have a very interesting tradition of "throwing lopes." I don't think I've mastered it, but Maddie has. She's a sophomore transfer student and her major is Health Sciences with plans to go into the Radiology Tech program. It's a really nice campus and nice size - about 6,000 students. UNK is said to be a little bit city and little bit country -- how perfect is that! Of course, it's fastest to get there on the scary interstate, but can also get there by some highways that are simply lovely - though it does take longer.

Maddie just decided to apply the second week of July, so it was a bit of a race to get everything done on time and be signed up for classes, the dorm and a roommate. So far, so good!

These photos are from our official visit day -- which was only 1 week before move-in day! The campus was lovely! BUT . . . there was no food to be found except vending machines! Once again, we proved how non-technical we are as we couldn't get the credit card option to work to get some chips. Finally figured out that good old dollar bills worked. Our lunch was Cheetos and Doritos - oh yum!

We had a great tour from a wonderful tour guide who had also been a transfer student. She gave Maddie lots of information and tips! Best of luck to my sweet girl! More to follow about UNK and hope to get some posts about our summer trip to WDW!

And Now She's a Sophomore!

So, now she's a sophomore!

Maddy's first day of school was last month -- 

of course, I'm still trying to catch up!

Rainy on the first day of school this year

so couldn't get our typical outdoor photo!

She was excited to get back to school --

not really!

Truth be told, we both felt like it was way too 

early for school to start on August 16!

But, no one from school asked for my opinion!  :)

The start of sophomore year seemed a bit easier 

in some ways.  At least, she didn't have to struggle with that

locker combination lock this year - it was a breeze!

And just after school started was the solar eclipse!

Here in Lincoln, we were in the totality area so 

it was a huge, huge thing.  We'd been

hearing about it for months!

I bought my special glasses ages ago.

School planned a special outing for 

some students and others had hotdogs and chips

on the football field! 

 How fun was that!
Bill  Nye, the Science Guy, was in Beatrice --
very close to Lincoln!  If only I didn't have
to work, I would have been there!

Unfortunately, it was a bit cloudy that day, but

still very cool how it got all dark and nightime-ish and

then it was like morning again!

The next day was totally clear and 

would have been a better day;

but like the start of school, we can't

pick and choose the date when a total solar eclipse 

will happen!

No matter, it was seriously cool and 

as they said on the Pius t-shirts . . .

Totality Awesome!