Urbaign-Champana

I've been meaning to put this picture up on the blog--this was the scene on Tuesday morning during the freezing rain storm. You can't see out of my apartment window because there is a sheet of ice on it! Luckily the sun came out yesterday and melted things just a little bit. Today is Spring Break Eve! I am sooooooo excited to come home tomorrow and see everybody. Aly left today, so I took her over to the train station this morning. Now I'm just trying to do laundry and things before Relief Society Enrichment Night tonight. I am giving a presentation about the pioneers in celebration of the Relief Society's 166th birthday this month. Hopefully it won't be too boring! Greg is kind enough to come offer me some moral support this evening :-) I practiced the presentation on Aly last night, and she thought it was very interesting. She now loves pioneer women. Patty Sessions, who delivered 3,977 babies, was her favorite.

Yesterday was a long but super fun day. For our Collections Care class, we went up to the University of Illinois to visit the Spurlock Museum. The U of I is located in two cities--Urbana and Champaign, so they call it the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. That's quite a mouthful for a school! We've decided that they should combine the two cities into one and call it Urbaign-Champana just to confuse everybody. The Spurlock Museum was very cool, and the director there showed us some behind-the-scenes collections management stuff. We got to see some pretty interesting and random things. My favorite item we saw was a pair of Inuit shorts made out of fur. :-) After the museum, we went to dinner at this really delicious restaurant called Seven Saints. The food there was delicious, and we all enjoyed being in a "big city" again. I don't know which city I like better--Urbana or Champaign, because you never know which of the two you're in. :-) My favorite part of dinner was the "Black and Bleu" salad I had topped with bleu cheese and sliced ribeye steak. It was divine. We didn't get back until kind of late, but luckily I was able to catch the premiere of the latest "Ghost Hunters" season! It was crazy--they totally found some ghosts at Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia! Well, I've got to go finish up some things and then head to school to work with Dr. Hardeman. I'm so excited to go home tomorrow!