TRI....athalon.......NO TRI-COLLEGE!!!

time to share the trip memories, mostly good ones i must say. the family had two day's off (wed. and thurs.) so early wed. morning we made our way down to moorhead, a road we hadn't traveled in quite a while.
our first stop was concordia college home of the cobblers!
(that is one mean lookin cob of corn!) we toured the campus with amber (a senior), talked with trisha an admissions coulselor and had a free lunch outside.

Next we headed to the university only a few minutes away. MSUM the home of the dragons. once again we met with someone in admissions and took the campus tour. after the long day we decided to head to the hotel. (holiday inn of course) the hotel was pretty sweet. i used the buisness center to check my myspace and the blog and to print directions. they also had free lemonade. this was FAR better than the last time we stayed in a holiday inn on our way to mexico (long story).
after getting tired of talking about the colleges we ventured our way to a resturant called "doolittles" which was recommended to us by trisha from concordia. it was awesome! when we were sat she used a touch screen computer to seat us and who would have know that our waiter, dennis, was from north dakota! our next stop! so my parents bothered him with questions about tuition and "party schools", but he humored them. other than the service the food was great and on our way out my mom and i used the bathroom where we actually walked by the kitchen and the roticery chickens which were acutally turning over a wood fireplace in a turner the size of a large window! Next we headed to the mall, but i didn't do that much damage. (only a few things)

the next day we started off for NDSU, but stopped at arby's for BREAKFAST! i know what your thinking, but they actually do serve breakfast in other places. sadly we were the only ones there for the entire time we ate and ordered, but the food really wasn't that bad. then back on the road we made it to NDSU. they started us out on the tour like always, and the campus was much more spread out (12,000 ppl during school), but afterwards they had us meet with an admissions person and even someone in the psychology department, who showed us some really interesting rooms where the professors actually did their studies, or research, and explained some of them to us.

then as our last stop we were off to UND. we arrived almost an hour early to the tour (1:00), but holly our tour guide was ready to get moving (!?) the dorm accomodations were much nicer there, but the campus was still very spread out. many people would have to take the UND bus to get to class on the other side of campus from their residence halls. she ended the tour in the food court, (we hadn't had lunch) but we were in a hurry to find out how to get back to MN. so we got lost on the way back to the car, then hit the road. we stopped at a gas station and hadn't eaten lunch so the attendant recommended a place down the street called red peppers. sure enough red peppers was hidden ina residential area, but had somewhat of a line at 3:00. they had mexican burgers, tortillas, burritos, tacos, tostadas, and grinders. the resturant was no bigger than my kitchen, but the food was good and also cheap. we were still in east grand forks (ND!) at 3:00 and after road construction finally made it home at about 6:35. just in time to leave for band practice (3 clarinets!!!)
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in other news at band prac i recieved a practice book that is almost 300 pages long!! what fun for me! also if anyone seriously wants any fudge let me know! my parents barely even like chocolate and i have like a third of a pound of chocolate rasberry to eat. (also penut butter and chocolate walnut!)