Take Ben to Work Day

Yesterday I took Benjamin to my school (University Laboratory High School) to show him off to my coworkers and my students. They were all very excited to see him - he drew quite the crowd. I had the opportunity to stop by my Latin II class and get a picture. Although I love being with Benjamin at home and it will be an incredibly sad day when I have to leave him to return to work, I miss my students! I hadn't seen many of them since last May, so it is amazing to see how they have changed and grown.

After stopping by at Uni High, Benjamin and I met up with Steve to stop by the Classics department at the U of Illinois. Several of the professors and graduate students there hadn't met Benjamin yet either. Afterward, we walked around campus a little to get some pictures. In the picture above, Ben and I are in front of Foellinger Auditorium (it always reminds me of Northrop Auditorium at the U of Minn).

Here Steve and Benjamin are posing in front of the student union - it is a little ways down from where they are in the quad. To take this picture, we basically turned Benjamin 180 degrees from where he was in the previous picture with me. These two buildings frame the two ends of the main quad on campus.

Our last photo op on campus was the Alma Mater. We have taken several pictures of just me and Steve in front of this statue and it was natural that we needed a new picture to include the special new member of our family!

After our busy morning/early afternoon activities, we made a lunch stop at Noodles on Green Street. Benjamin is now very acquainted with the U of I - it was fun to bring him to places that are so important to us and now to him!