It's pretty hard to wrap my head around the fact that I graduated from Rick's College 20 years ago--seriously 20?! Crazy. But then you start walking around campus and realize, it's a totally different place (except for the few parts that are EXACTLY the same). I am glad we got to take the kids and show them where we started off life...separately but yet at the same place. So many great memories from this place.
The temple was new since we were there! It was so cool to see it, up on the hill so far above anything else. It was beautiful
It was kind of sunny;)
Inside the MC looked exactly the same from this angle...
...but then you turn around and see THIS instead of just another gym--so weird.
The library was pretty much the same...being in the stairwells made me feel like I was back in time
I had heard the Sporey building had burned down and a new one built in its place. The new one was much bigger and more modern.
Walking to the Hart building (it was so hot and the kids were troopers)
Both the places I lived while I was at Rick's were torn down (both made into parking lots)...I had heard this, but to see it was kind of sad...almost made me cry.
Here is where the dorms used to be:
Here's where Harmony House used to be:
One afternoon, Mike took the big kids to an escape room and I just threw Summer in a stroller and walked around campus. I tried to go on some of the same routes I used to walk as a student and it was so surreal. I remembered one Sunday afternoon when my roommate Mykalee and I were bored, we went and sat by the "Welcome to Rick's College" sign and talked to all the students who walked by. So I walked with Summer to find the sign and take a picture, but of course, it was gone. So we settled for this BYUI sign.
The picture is kind of green because Summer was holding a green umbrella to keep the sun out of her face:)
I am sure glad we got to go back to Rexburg. It was such a wonderful part of my past that I was excited to share with my kids.
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