Kirksville

We're back from our long-awaited "babymoon" to the Truman State University campus in Kirksville, MO. We were happy to see that not many things about this small college town have changed. We had fun driving by our old apartments, jobs, and just around the area. We walked around campus and went into our old campus buildings and dorms. We even managed to see the current campus art gallery exhibit featuring a retrospective from one of my professors.

Just as it should be, it was snowing and freezing cold the whole weekend. This is what Kirksville is known for!


This is our special spot where we would meet after classes. This is also where we exchanged our first "I love you" and where Nathan proposed - specifically the bench on the left if you really want to be sentimental.


Ryle Hall where we met and and fell in love whilst working the overnight shift at the front desk. We went inside and it smells exactly as I remembered it. Like a mix of body spray, plug-in air fresheners, popcorn, and dirty college kid.


I would often yell up to Nathan's window (the one with the air conditioner on the 2nd floor) and see if he wanted to go for a walk, go to eat, go to WalMart, or just go anywhere with me.


A horrible picture of the campus. Interesting note: the students in the picture were practicing some medieval fighting techniques. Pretty, um, cool?


Our favorite keepsake from this trip - a size 6 month Truman shirt for our sweetie :-)

On Saturday night we had a great dinner at Il Spazio where I used to work and then headed back to our crappy hotel for a night in. With that, we celebrated our 7th Valentine's day together. We woke up to about 3 inches of blowing snow, headed to the Great Wall chinese restaurant for lunch (where I also used to work), and turned the 3.5 hour trip home into a 5 hour one because of the snowy conditions the entire way home. We had a great time walking down memory lane, but are so happy to be home and not college kids anymore.