Trip to Lubbock

We made our first trip to Lubbock together since I graduated this past weekend.  Wow 4 years sure has brought major changes to the Hub City!  There is a real highway running next to campus, new places to eat and most importantly, Lubbock is wet!  It was strange to see people walking out of walmart with a 12 pack. 

We were in town to appraise the Texas Destination Imagination Tournament.  (Abby stayed at home with Ben's parents, and had a wonderful time.)  The tournament took up much of our time while in Lubbock, but we did make time to visit some of our old stomping grounds.

We drove past our out house, and it still looks the same, overgrown bushes, barely alive rose bushes, and weeds for a yard.  Yep that is the house I remember!  I also got to go by the CE building and see some of my old professors.  It was strange to walk the halls of the CE building, it seems like forever since I was sitting in room 205 listening to lectures. 

The bigger realization I came to while spending time on campus was, I survived college with out an iPhone!  As we took the bus around campus, it hit me, we didn't have a phone with an app to tell us when the next bus was coming, or where the closest Starbucks was, or even the ability to check my email on the bus.  How did we survive? 

I did stop by the basement of the CE building and snap a picture of my photo hanging on the wall.  They put up a class photo of each graduating class.  Gosh I wish I still looked like this! 

We also made it by to see the new giant class ring at the alumni center, this thing is huge!

We had a pretty good trip!