First visit to Clemson

Today we took the boys on a short road trip. We took them to God's Country, aka Tiger Town, aka Clemson, SC. It was a very important day. :)

Thomas and I have been looking forward to this for a while but had to wait until the weather was warm (and not rainy) and when we didn't have other plans. Today was that day. I took about 2.5 million pictures, which is only a slight exaggeration.

When referring to Clemson, the saying goes, "there's something in these hills" and it's so true! It was an enjoyable day and Thomas and I both just get a good, comfortable, "I'm home" type feeling when we go back to our alma mater.

We put the boys in their strollers and walked all through campus. The memories came flooding back! It was the first time we've been on campus and had to pay attention to finding ramps and avoiding stairs since we had strollers. It was a new experience for us - ha!

Getting the afternoon started at the Carillon Gardens

Thomas with the boys ready to take on the day

In front of the Carillon Gardens

In front of the amphitheater, reflection pond & Cooper Library

In front of the reflection pond

This was cool. We went to the Hendrix Student Center and noticed bricks on the walkway for the '04 and '05 graduating classes. Thomas and I found our names!

Sweet William

Funny Stokes

Beautiful Ryan

Tillman Hall

The Rock! It's in a glass case now that it was vandalized last fall :(

 

The 5 of us in front of Memorial Stadium (Death Valley)

Thomas Green Clemson

We ended the afternoon on Bowman Field. We finally got the babies out of their strollers to play around a little. There was a great shady area near a tree and they were glad to get some time to kick around and move.

William on tummy time

My boys and me on Bowman

Thomas playing with Stokes

Thomas and the boys on Bowman

Almost sitting on their own

Mr. Cool 1

The first tears of the day...way late in the afternoon. This fussiness lasted all of 2 min. I was impressed!

Mr. Cool 2

Ride home