Jessica did indeed graduate and it was good. We left for Urbana after I got off work Friday and it was late when we arrived a little before 3 a.m. Jessica had to go to the Union at 8 a.m. to get her robe while I slept in. The ceremony wasn't until 4 p.m., so in the morning we went to the Urbana Farmers' Market, had rhubarb bread (I think) from ( Read more... )

Thursday evening Jessica and I drove down to Champaign-Urbana so she could attend a conference. Though we lived here for four years, we may have become accustomed to the smaller feel of Eau Claire because, at first, CU seemed bigger than we remembered. We arrived in town just before 8 p.m. and it was drizzling. Driving down Neil Street we saw a ( Read more... )