Rise and Shout!!

The Cougars are Out!
(or a very short visit to BYU)

I graduated from BYU over a decade ago.  I can't believe it has been that long, but there it is.  We were in Utah at the beginning of our vacation this week and took a quick trip to BYU.  It wasn't a very active trip 'cause I was feeling very sick, hot and tired.  The night before we left on our vacation I got some little stomach bug, so the drive out from Colorado was pretty unpleasant for me and I was still feeling crumby that first day in Utah.  The stomach bug combined with being seven months pregnant and the 90+ degree weather they were having in Utah that day made for a tough time for me.  I had to stop and sit down every 10 or 15 minutes.  So with that and our time constraints, we had to severely limit the sites we saw at BYU.  We'll have to come back another time when I have more time and energy.

BYU has changed a lot, as has Provo, but we still had fun checking things out.  Here are the kids in the Wilkinson Center looking at a picture of the Y.  Sometime when the kids are older and I'm not pregnant we will hike up there.  Ahh, college memories!

Visiting the bookstore.  The kids liked these hats!  We didn't get them, but I tried to get them matching shirts.  It was super sleepy at BYU that day.

We visited the Eyring Science Center since that is the building that housed my major (Physics!!) and I spent A LOT of time there those last three years of college (it was under construction the first year I was there).  A lot of the science displays are the same ones from 10+ years ago, plus a few new ones.  Here is Anna checking out the optics display.

By the Physics department there is a poster listing all physics graduates since the beginning of the department at BYU.  I like to find myself - a reminder that I DID indeed graduate from college, though it seems so long ago and far away now.  That's me, second from the top.  I also found my Dad who graduated (with both a BS and MS) from BYU in physics, so that was fun too.

Matthew has had a small obsession with tornadoes and hurricanes lately so he liked seeing this tornado maker.

The vortex cannon, which shoots a burst of air at people when properly aimed, was also popular with our crowd.

 The infamous pendulum in the middle of the Eyring.

It was fun seeing all the science things!

And after our science adventures we stopped and got ice cream at the creamery.  I was so tired!!  We did drive around Provo a little bit and passed by my old apartments, which are all still standing.  There was a lot of construction going on around Provo!  It was fun seeing things, even if it was just a short trip.