SVU!

~ Highlight of the Day: Talking to Grandma about mum festivals :) ~

Well, Ben is officially a freshman. We checked him in, fretted over him enough to be embarrassing, ate at the cafeteria he'll be eating at for the next 8 months, and then went on our way!

Southern Virginia University is a small but cool campus. There are some really old buildings with interiors that resemble the beast's mansion (from Beauty and the Beast), and a huge statue of a knight out front. Can you get much better?

(The College Freshman in his natural environment)

After dropping Ben off we drove back up to Baltimore and decided to catch a movie with our free evening. . . We didn't have much to choose from so we settled with Hope Springs. It's got good people in it, including Steve Carrol, so it should at least be funny, right?

So wrong. I'm not sure what audience they were going for, but it was just awkward, inappropriate, and way boring. So we left in the middle to see if there was anything better. . . all we could find was Paranorman. Also really odd. Humorous, yes. Sophisticated or appropriate for small children, no. It was better than old people talking about sex though, so we stuck with it.

I think I'll just take action and violence next time around. . .