Ram Welcome

Thursday we had work and homeschooling and classes at CEC as usual. I made a quick run with some stuff up to Noah and dropped that off with him between his scheduled events. In the evening, we all headed up to campus for the Ram Welcome dinner and carnival. First, all the students were in Moby Arena for a convocation gathering. Then, they joined the rest of us on the fields for a box dinner. We managed to snag a table for us and Noah's roommate and his parents, so we enjoyed chatting over dinner then took some pictures...

Here's Noah and Ethan. 

All the students had on this shirt (handed out during check in). The back had the lyrics to the fight song...lyrics which were supposed to be used during convocation but which were apparently ignored to great extent, lol. 

Then we took some more group shots...

And then we parted ways to enjoy the carnival. Ethan and his parents headed over to the booths with games. We wandered the bouncy things and watched people on the climbing wall and zip line before following people with popcicles to get some for ourselves, lol. Then we ended up in the long line for this ride:

My guys all agreed that it was maybe not worth the wait...as the experience would have been much better if the ride duration hadn't been as long. (And the line would have moved quicker, too.)

After that, we walked Noah back to his dorm so he could head up and get some rest before his early scheduled breakfast the next day. He'll have lots of fun scheduled events over the weekend (apparently he and some new friends enjoyed a great magician show last night) and will start classes on Monday. So, now he's off... :)