Cakesicles

 Camille and I have been wanting to try Cakesicles ever since I went to the Pinner's conference, and we finally had some time to do it.

These require quite a bit of work, and we found "painting the mold" and then putting in the cake batter was far more successful than dipping the pops, because they just fell off the sticks when we dipped them.

We think they turned out pretty good! Even though Claire and Ben said they were ghosts when they are obviously mummies.

I took them for my kids in primary and one of my 6 year olds said, "They are MUM-scicles!" I thought that was pretty cute!

College Tour Day 4

 We started the day with a great tour of University of Utah. Claire seemed to really like this campus. We learned  a lot about their nursing program, and it seems like it would be a really good fit for Claire.

She made good friends with a girl, Molly, from Virginia who was also there touring and going into nursing.

They won for tours because they gave us free ice-cream!

We won't turn down free ice-cream!

After the ice-cream, we headed to Ogden to tour Weber State. After stopping at the French bakers for lunch:

The Marriott building!

By now, Claire was so excited for me to take more pictures

Weber is a beautiful campus, but similar to SGU probably a bit too small for her to consider. WHich is too bad because she could basically go for free with all the scholarships she could get.

On the way down to SLC for our final hotel, we stopped by Grandpa Marriott's house which is currently for sale.

Then grabbed some Swig's, because, well, when in Utah...

The trip was 3,154 miles by air. 862 miles by car. 5 nights, 5 different hotels. 2 coasts (basically). 3 time zones. 5 universities. And 1 overarching thought:

I am too old for this.

Overall, though, it was a good trip and we learned a lot. Claire was able to narrow down her choices- BYU, UGA, or UofU. Those are three great options. So now we wait for acceptance letters and scholarships.

College Tour Day 3

 Day 3 had us flying across the country to Salt Lake City, very quickly hopping in our rental car, and racing to the University of Utah and getting there about 2 minutes after it started, but we made it!

It was a good tour, but they are actually more expensive than the University of Georgia, so it is off the list

We then drove up to Logan and got some Aggie ice-cream before checking into our hotel.

YUM!

College Tour Day 2

 For our second stop we ended up in Statesborogh to tour Southern Georgia University. Ultimately she decided it was too small and rural, even though it is an absolutely beautiful campus.

This is a poster for a Haunted House on campus

Will I be an SGU mom? Probably not.

Ben and Camille Go To Estes!

 Ben and Camille also took advantage of Fall Break and they did what Camille really wanted to do- go to Estes Park and see the fall leaves, tour the haunted Stanley Hotel, and ride the aerial tramway.