We Are.....PENN STATE!

I have been looking forward to our trip to Penn State since we planned it back in the beginning of September...and man...it went way tooooo fast!! It was a good weekend to be there, as Alyssa's roommate and other friend that she hangs out with were gone for the weekend, so she was by herself. Adam stayed with Alyssa in her room on Friday night and Kurt and I spent the night at a Super 8 motel. We got there about 6:15 on Friday night and got to say hi and goodbye to Sarah who was just leaving. I found this pic on Alyssa's wall quite amusing:


Look how big Jack has gotten:


We went to Texas Roadhouse for Adam's belated birthday dinner:



On Saturday morning we met at the hotel, had some breakfast, then decided to take a drive south. We started out driving to a local dam that is near State College. It has a nice beach to swim at, but isn't very big. We looked at the map and saw that there was a much bigger lake about thirty miles south of PSU. On our way down to the lake (see below), we came across a sign for Juniata College, which we've all heard about, but none of us had ever been there. It seemed like a no-brainer to go five miles out of our way to drive through campus. It's quite a small campus compared to the one we're used to now...LOL!



As we were leaving Huntingdon, which is where the college is, we came across this cool wall:


These are pics of Raystown Lake. We really had no idea where we were going and where the best spot was to see the lake from afar. We ended up at a private boat launch area where a nice gentleman gave us directions to the Ridenour Outlook, which provided lots of beautiful pictures. You may notice that we were probably a week too early as far as the foliage goes...there were still many green trees out there!

These are just some random shots I got over the course of our drive that I thought were neat:

We took pics with JoePa (or a reasonable facsimile...LOL!!) I'm not posting all the pics, as one will be on the 2008 Christmas card.






We stopped at Matt and Karlyn's towards the end of the day and ended up having a picnic with them. We had pizza for supper, and Karlyn made fresh homemade cookies. They were yummy! Thanks!

Tate and Lydia with Alyssa and Adam

Gabe with Alyssa

After we left Matt and Karlyn's we dropped the guys off at Alyssa's room so they could see the beginning of the Penn State-Wisconsin game (Did I mention they blew Wisconsin away?!?!!?), while Alyssa and I ran to Walmart to get her a case of water and a few other things she needed. We pulled away from Atherton Hall at 9:08 p.m., and arrived home at 11:40 p.m. It was a perfect day!