Homecoming and flooring...

Rodney has been harassing me about putting laminate flooring in our living room for the better part of two years now. Thanks to two holes worn at the edges of the carpet, and a huge green silly putty stain that was not done by MY children, I finally broke down and gave him a budget. $300... no more. And he had Saturday to do it in... no more. Well, $320 later and about 5 hours left until midnight, here is where my flooring is (BTW, thanks to Jason (pictured) and Jeff for helping out):

What does a good wife do when flooring she doesn't even want is being installed in her home? She takes the kids to college for the day. Today was the end of Homecoming Week at UWF and there were activities advertised. Plus, I needed to get a paper done, Will needed to get some reading done and Xan, well, Xan was just excited to be going to college.

I rented a carrel for the day (a small, lockable study room) so we would have a secure "home base" an the fourth floor on the UWF library. The fourth floor was where the children's collection was... and was the library's quiet floor. No, this didn't make sense to me, either. But it worked out OK. Fortunately, my carrel was located in a secluded corner that had a collection of chairs in front of it, so we were good to go for the first two hours. Then the natives (children) got restless and we headed down and over a building or so to the Homecoming festivities, which were a lot of fun.

 First was the inflatable slide - a big hit. Such a big hit that the normal jumping inflatable wasn't touched by boys at all. Then, they joined Argie's Kid Club - the UWF booster club for kids to support UWF athletics. It was free and they got T-shirts they didn't hesitate for a moment to put on. Guess who one of the main sponsors on the shirt was?

After the slide we checked out the student booths. The Anthropology/Archaeology tents were a lot of fun - great artifacts. The kids loved the drowned rat skull found at one of the local shipwreck sites and the Florida Archaeology tattoos the best. Will won a SGA (Student Government Association) t-shirt for me and they each got a slap-bracelet.

Then we had a free lunch... pizza and soda... while we listened to a band New Earth Army. Xan thought they were pretty good. Please note the SGA sunglasses. He got those from a coed. The boys were a hit with a number of the college girls, especially Will with the archaeologists. After lunch, it was time to head back in to the library so I could get some more work done. The boys played computer games.

 Then it was naptime for Xan. He was getting downright grouchy, so I made him lay on the floor of the carrel. He was out in 10 minutes. Will is more than halfway through his second Whimpy Kid book. Hopefully we can get those AR points up to a decent level.

Oh, and I almost forgot: The boys and I each got a new tattoo. Will chose a skull with flames, Xan got a tiger and I chose a scroll design. Yes, they are real. Real airbrush. ;) They'll last about a week.