Park Attack

As we made our way at the beginning of August to “National Night Out” we stopped by the park (because I thought that’s where it was going to be at first.)

Not quite sure why Newbie wasn’t in the frame for these pictures, but after a quick slide each we continued on our way.

-FF

College Orientation: Noms

If we’re in the Twin Cities, where do we go eat that’s nice and close now that we’re checked into the hotel and before we officially park for orientation itself? (They let us just park in the front drop off driveway as we unloaded our bags.)

Looking at the Google Maps of the area previously, we already had a good idea of where we were going to go:

We haven’t been to an Old Chicago for a few years at this point, so it was a very welcome revisit.

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College Orientation: The Hotel Room

So things were out of order, as I think I’ve already hinted at some of this orientation weekend already for Little Miss, but the order of events seem to be getting back on track properly now.

It was a really fancy hotel.

If I had to do it again though, I don’t think I’d have done things differently. It was a bit on the expensive side, but fortunately there was an orientation discount. This particular hotel was literally on campus, so we were able to start our day of orientation without any trouble with traffic and we just walked right to where we needed to be to start things off.

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