Taking Austin to Rensselaer!

 Somehow the time has come to take my first baby to college!  Yikes!  How fast time flies.  Such an exciting time.  We arrived on Saturday evening and made our way to Troy, NY to get settled in for a night before move in day.  We brought 5 suitcases between us and 4 of them (the big ones) were Austin's.  We then grabbed some dinner and headed to Walmart to buy all the things that didn't make sense to pack and bring from Utah.  School supplies, toiletries, hangers, pillows...etc.

 After church on Sunday it was time to get checked in and settled into the dorm.  The check in process was super easy and quick and then we were off to find his room.  He's in a room with two other young men and they are working on getting things organized the best way to fit them all.

After unpacking and "decorating" (boys don't decorate much), we had things pretty cozy in that room!

Then we had a few minutes to walk around the campus of Rensselaer.  After all, neither of us have ever been here before!

It is a beautiful New England campus.  So green..so lush, not too hot (it will be cold later!)  The buildings are older (mostly) and have that colonial feel to them.  Lots of red brick and dormers...beautiful!

We didn't want to tour the whole campus, since we have orientation tomorrow and that's probably a big part of that, but we did kill some time walking around the part of campus near the dorm.  The recreation and fitness building looks like a castle from the front and has a HUGE indoor field and gym!  It's cool.

So far it's been fun to explore together and spend this time together.  I try not to think about having to say goodbye and leave him here...but actually I'm so glad I got to come here and at least see where he's going to be.  He's going to be just fine...no...he's going to be great!