beth_leonard

We had a wonderful trip to Mudd's reunion. Most of my good friends were there. I started the CS major a year late so many of my closest friends were one year behind me. Their 10th is my 11th and Jon's 15th, so this was a great year to go. There are only a few people from my class year that I really want to see, but luckily they live close by and also came for the reunion.

The reunion just felt comfortable. It was so nice to slip into conversations with old friends as if school ended yesterday.
Jon came with questions for our resident string theorist, steuard. I missed out on some of it while I was upstairs with the baby. When I asked how the string theory conversation went, he said that they didn't talk much about string theory, and then rattled off half a dozen other modern physics topics.

I finally met schr0dinger and he is as cute as his parents make him out to be.

I got to talking some finance with Matt and Carolyn, but there's still more of that conversation to have. It was also fun to spend 6 hours in the car with patrissimo on the way down. Seasteading doesn't sound like it's for me, but it sounds like Patri's following his dreams and having fun with it so I wish him all the best.

The time was too short. I spent most of it with my best friends, even though it would have been nice to also renew friendships with others from school.

Peter enjoyed himself so much that he tells us frequently he wants to go back to Harvey Mudd college. I bought him a t-ball set and we played a fair amount on the lawn and in the Linde Activity center. He played over 3 hours of foosball and air hockey each afternoon while we hung out with friends.

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The trip to Mudd was a test to see how the kids would do for long periods of time in the car, and we've decided to fly for our summer vaction to my brother's family, 15 hours away by car.
--Beth

We're going! It's Jon's 15th and my 11th, but due to starting my CS major late, I feel greater kinship with the class behind me, celebrating their 10th reunion. We're staying at the official place (Ontario Sheritan I think) and we'll be driving down.

So far we've signed up for the Saturday afternoon lunch, the 10 year reunion dinner, and childcare both nights.

When the time for my 15th/16th rolls around, I think I'm going to recommend a class trip to Disney Land on Sunday. Doing this with children is odd, and going to Disneyland Sunday seems nicer. I imagine I can't be the only person from my class year with kids in the correct age range. We could get some type of group lunch at a Disney restaurant and otherwise have fun with the kids.

I'd love to get together with anyone on my flist while we're there. I'm not into tours and wine tasting, etc. but I would like to go on the CS deptartment tour Saturday morning. The Lind center has a kid zone I think, and I'm guessing we'll spend most of our time near there.

--Beth