2012-05-05 Happy Birthday Molly!

We stopped last night about 9 p.m. wishing to continue, but knowing we couldn't make it.  We stopped about an hour north of Roanoke at a Days Inn.  We woke early, although tired, but excited to get up, get moving and see our baby girl.  After a quick complementary breakfast we got on the road at 8:30.  We predicted we'd get there about 12:30 and we were right!  We got really excited when we actually saw what looked like the mountains around Boone!!!  We quickly got our second wind.

We got to our hotel and Molly and Brian came within minutes.  Oh what a feeling to hug my girl and see her face.  What a ray of sunshine....on  cloudy day...my girl!

We needed to stretch our legs and get some exercise so we headed to ASU for a guided tour by our own alumni, Brian.  What a beautiful campus and it's huge.  It's pretty much all of downtown Boone

Library entrance looking up.  Pretty dramatic.

Can't say that we saw many kids who were overweight!  I wonder why? 

This campus has the most hills I've ever seen at a college, but the reward,

besides a healthy heart and body are the views!

Of course we had to find the football field! ASU has one of the best football teams in the country.

They're so good they need to make this huge facility even bigger.  Here's the vision.

Brian said that when the team has a game, people are bused in.  There's just not enough room in Boone to park the large volumns of people who attend.  Someday we'll be here in the fall and you can bet we'll have tickets!!!

Found this little kitty near the library.  I miss my fur babies!! 

Thanks for the tour Brian! 

What a beautiful school ASU has here in Boone.

We had a great day.  It's wonderful to be with our girl.  This was a much needed vacation for both of us and to be with Molly is also much needed.  It's going to be a great week.