To Alma Mater, Olivet...

To Alma Mater, Olivet, We lift our voice in praise....For noble standards which we'll hold till ending of our days.  The time we spent within these halls will ne're forgotten be, for here we learned to know of truth, and truth will make us free.  My Olivet, Our Olivet! Tho' life may lead us far apart, I'll still revere you in my heart.  My Olivet, Our Olivet.  I'll love the Christ you gave first part, and you, old Olivet! ~Byron Carmony '39

That was my college song....I know it won't mean much to you if you didn't go there....and it is probably frustrating to read words to a song and not know the tune....at least that is one of my pet peeves...so, that makes me smile to think there may be someone else like me out there who I am bothering right now.... :) Anyway, we were able to take our girls to "Old" Olivet on our way back home from my grandma's funeral...only, Olivet isn't so "Old" anymore...they are experiencing some major expansion and it was really terrific to see all the new buildings on campus.  I don't know if any of our daughters will choose to attend ONU, but it was fun to take them on a tour.  They were done with the tour, however, before Brad and I were....you know what I mean, right? We were done looking around the campus, but Brad and I were still showing them all these places around town and where we lived with different roommates in apartments after school, the church we went to and got married in, the Steak and Shake where we went on our first date, our first home down by the Kankakee River, the building downtown where Brad worked for Youth For Christ ...and the girls just said, "Can we start the movie again?"...and, "When are we going home?"....So, I guess the tour is over, folks! haha! :)

Here are some pictures from our little stop down memory lane...maybe some of our girls will make their own memories at Olivet Nazarene University someday :)  Then we can bore them again with all the details of our memories there :)

Taming the Tiger

Field House attached to McHie Area.....absolutely huge....the picture doesn't even show the expanse of it...

A brand new chapel...I really wanted to go in, but it was closed as we were just stopping by on a Saturday.

Future Olivetians?

Biggest rock wall I have ever seen

The new pool area also offers a lazy river...the girls were sad we did not have time for this.

One thing that was funny to me was that the girls started questioning how life would have been different if we didn't choose to go to ONU....one of the girls asked us who's kid she would be....it is weird to think about how much one decision made differently would have totally changed our lives.  I'm pretty happy with the life I've got :)