After ten years I finally made it back to BYU. We took the kids and had just a very short time to make all attempts to convince them to be Cougars someday, too. Though the campus is drastically changed, it still has the same great feeling. It's possible that no one loved the SFLC like I did (after my many mornings of cleaning its bathrooms), but this building that replaced it is amazing.
We played around in the Eyring Science Center's interactive science experiments and I wondered which of my kids would like physical science the best and which would be most likely to become a geology major and which would actually take astronomy instead of just talking about doing it like I was guilty of doing.
This new gallery in the new Joseph F. Smith building is positively luminous. I loved this quote from one of the displays about education and the Latter-Day Saint tradition and culture: "Nothing can prosper in school or fireside without love" are the words of the beloved Karl G. Maeser. I wished I would have been able to walk all of campus like I did one day my last summer there.
We met up with family once on Saturday and again on Sunday and enjoyed catching up with everyone--they treated us with beautiful music, delicious food, fun conversation, and humorous stories and I didn't take nearly enough photos.
Finally, we spent two nights with one of Dan's college roommate and his great family. This guy and Dan did a lot of laughing together way back then, and it was good to see them fall back into that easily. I enjoyed the bonus of spending time with his wife. We decided we should be neighbors.
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