Awards Presentation

We stayed in Champaign for the awards presentation. We checked out of the Super 8 at 9:30 a.m. and then drove to the University of Illinois campus. It was a beautiful day. We parked by the Illini Union and walked around for a couple of hours. We walked around the Quad and over to the building where he presented. We went in the underground Undergraduate Library and then walked down Wright Street to the Alma Mater statue. After we fed the parking meter we walked down Green Street. The boys each got a souvenir Illinois tee-shirt at Follett's Bookstore. I checked to see if Papa Dels' was still there and it's gone. We stopped at La Bamba to check out the menu and ended up having lunch at Potbelly's. We drove around campus some more and made stops by my old apartment and fraternity. I showed the boys the inside of the fraternity. It was pretty trashed. It's finals week and everybody goes home in a week. We drove by Willie's Pizza where I use to make "thick and cheesy" pizza's. We then drove back to the Assembly Hall to wait for the awards presentation. On the way we passed the new Doris Christopher Building (The founder of Pampered Chef) Two students from their school won awards for best paper and best project and my son received a Gold Certificate which is the highest certificate for his paper. The awards ended about 4:30 p.m. and then we headed home. We stopped at the Dairy Queen in Gilman for some ice cream. It's a tradition. One of my college roommates grew up in Gilman. We made it home at about 8:00 p.m. What a great weekend.