College Reunion Trip to Oxford - April 6th Weekend

April was a very big month for the Mowry household.  Brady started daycare on April 1st and within 2 days got sick.  Everyone had warned us that once you send them to daycare, they will get sick lots more but they will be building their immune system.  We were definitely not prepared for the amount of sickness though, it seemed like as soon as he got over something, he immediately got something new.  Despite the getting sick part, he does seem to like daycare though.  The first day was incredibly hard (probably more for Katie) but Brady started crying when he got dropped off (which then caused Katie to cry) but after a few days, the teachers said he warmed right up and now has a smile on his face as soon as we drop him off.  He got put on Amoxicillin that first week of April and luckily that started working so that we could still make our trip to Oxford the first weekend in April.

Thursday evening, we drove to Eaton after Charlie got home from work....another late arrival but it seems to work for Brady because he just sleeps.  Griffey was getting to stay at Grandma and Grandpa Carico's house for the weekend while the three of us went to Oxford to see Katie's college friends.  Katie was so excited for this trip because it was the first time Brady was going to meet several of her college friends and their kids.  Katie lived with 14 girls her junior and senior year in a house that they called The Labrynth and most of them have stayed in good contact.  This was our first reunion weekend with spouses and kids and we all agreed that it is definitely going to be an annual event from now on.  We had a great turn out with 18 adults and 10 kids/babies.  We stayed at the Hueston Woods lodge, which is 15 minutes outside of Oxford.  Now that a lot of us have kids, being back in Oxford was quite different from the old days.  Instead of pub crawling and getting late night food at Bagel and Deli, we went stroller crawling through campus, took the kids to Bagel and Deli for lunch and had an early dinner at 5pm at Steinkellar's.  It was quite the scene with 10 strollers marching through campus and we lined up at the Upham Arch to take lots of photos.  After our early dinner, we went back to Hueston Woods to put the kids to bed.  The girls went down to the hotel bar, Johnny Appleseed, while the husbands stayed back in one of the hotel rooms to keep an ear on the babies through baby monitors that we all brought.  Of course Johnny Appleseed was no Attractions or First Run, but we made do with the juke box playing as many of the non-country songs that we could find.  Of course, Katie would have picked the country songs, but she was out-numbered.   

Sunday morning, we all had brunch in the Lodge and then we all parted ways.  It was a wonderful weekend seeing so many of the Labrynth girls (and husbands) and introducing our kids was priceless.  

Katie is already counting down the days till next year's trip.