A Trip Down Memory Lane.

We continued our tour of the great state of Missouri and traveled from St. Louis to Springfield.  Brett and I have not been back to our college town since the day we graduated 13 years ago.  We headed to the Drury campus and immediately found the outdoor architecture piece Brett made with his friends in Architecture school.  It was still there! Definitely dated, but still there!

We took the kids on a campus tour.  

Kate really perked up when she saw the Drury Panther Swim Team practice facility. 

Brett was excited to go back to the architecture building.  The lobby and studios really haven't changed much. 

Brett pulled a lot of all nighters in that building!

Once we finished at Drury, we drove down National Ave to the house I lived in with 2 other girls.  I have to admit, I kind of forgot which house it exactly was on Guinevere St :)  We actually pulled in front of the house next to this one at first and took a picture there!  I quickly realized once we got in the car that we were at the wrong house and  that the house I lived in was 1 house down!  Brett was so annoyed with me:)  I quickly jumped out of the car again and snapped a pic in front of the correct house.  The house could definitely use a little love for sure, but I was really excited to see the house that Brett proposed to me at again!

Then we headed to the Missouri State University Campus to check it out.  We showed the kids the Blair-Shannon Dorm I lived in, the book store and finally went into the Speech-Hearing Clinic where I did my clinicals and was a grad assistant.  Gayla, the clinic secretary I worked with, was still there along with many of my clinic supervisors.  It was so great to see them all again!

After our 2nd campus tour for the day, we headed down Chestnut Expressway to check in to our hotel.  I had to take a pic of the road sign as EVERY TIME my mom and aunt would come down to visit me, we would drive down this road they would sing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" at the top of there lungs :)

Brett and the Kids swam for awhile before we showered up and got ready for dinner.  

We knew exactly where to take the kids...... Lambert's!  The home of the throwed rolls!  Kate's favorite snack and bread and coke, so she was quite excited !

We got our fill of southern comfort food and waddled our way out to the car.  

We finished the night with a quick drive down to Branson for some Putt Putt Golf.  

As you can see from the pic, the boys beat the girls.  Both Brett and Will got a hole in 1 during the game.   Nonetheless, we all had a great time!