IU baby one more time

I've just returned home from a trip to Bloomington, Indiana, to attend my sister Lori's graduation from Indiana U. with a bachelor's in elementary ed (woohoo!). I drove down yesterday with my parents and grandma. Traffic was really bad along I-80/94 on the way there due to construction. Our trip took about one hour longer than usual. When we got there Lori and her roommate Clarissa had a yummy dinner waiting for us and we had fun chatting and relaxing for a bit, then we headed over to our hotel room (Motel 6 - they left the light on for us ;-)) for some shut-eye. Unfortunately I did not get a whole lot of shut-eye, as both of my parents plus my grandma burst into a cacophony of snores before I fell asleep. :-P My grandma even talked in her sleep a few times (in a conversational tone, even... it was like she was chatting on the phone with a friend in her dreams, LOL). Anyway, I was a little cranky this morning but after breakfast at McD's I was in better spirits.

The graduation ceremony at IU's Assembly Hall was very nice. The keynote speaker was Michael Uslan, IU alum and the man behind the Batman movies. The Assembly Hall was packed to the rafters. After the ceremony it took a little while to locate my sister, Rho, Jaclyn, Ben, and my mom and grandma (they were seated apart from my dad and me, in an accessible area since my grandma can't handle too many stairs) but eventually we all got together and found Lori's roommate Clarissa and her family and fiance. After some photo-taking (picture! picture!) we headed over to Lori and Clarissa's apartment for another home-cooked meal, this time spaghetti with spinach salad and garlic bread, with chocolate pie for dessert (yum). After commiserating with Clarissa's family, we headed back onto the road for our trip home, which thankfully went a little quicker than our drive down yesterday.

So, this was probably my last trip down to Indiana University, at least to visit my sister. It's a really nice campus so if the opportunity arises I wouldn't mind driving down there again some time. But preferably not until after the road construction on 80/94 is done. ;-)