Move in Day!

We got to the dorms at 8 AM, hoping we could check in early. Nope. They said not until 5 PM.

So, we toured campus. We walked through all of her schedule and went to every one of her classrooms so she could start to get the lay of the land.

We bought her textbooks. Only 2 aren't on-line.

We found snake plants in her bio building, which reminded Audra of Ben, so we had to get a picture. I told her every time she sees those snake plants to think of dad.

She was also able to get fitted for her marching band uniform! We had to ask a lot of people until we finally found out where the marching band room is. It's funny because it's at the stadium. My job for 4 years that paid for my college was cleaning the Marriott Center and the stadium. I thought I knew every inch of that building, but I never knew this marching band room was at the stadium! And it's really, really cool!

Audra started to feel some excitement when she came out with her sheiko! Doesn't it look great on her?!?

Then, finally, we could unload everything into her dorm. She was the first roommate to move in by several days. She had a social event with the trumpets so we didn't have time to unpack very much, but we decided to work on her bed.

We were very, very proud of ourselves for raising the bed higher! It was tricky and took a few YouTube videos and some ingenuity, but we did it!

And, she made her bed! She is very happy with how the bed turned out!

But because she's the only one in her dorm, and it's a little creepy by herself and very lonely, so she spent the night in the sketchy hotel with me again! Woo-hoo!

We went to Cafe Zappa's for dinner and we loved that they give a chocolate strawberry with each meal!

As we laid down, she looked a little sad. I asked her what was wrong and she said, "I miss Claire and Camille and dad."