Arrival at College

We took Peter to Purchase on Monday. It seemed  like Peter had about one tenth of the stuff that Sarah  had, so it was pretty easy to get everything  packed. It's a little over two hours away, not too  bad of a drive. For some reason, Nuvi the GPS wanted to route us directly through New York City, which is on the way, but it's not really a good idea to drive through. We had to override Nuvi quite a few times. Technically it would be a shorter distance  if we went that way, but it would probably take about three times as long. It seemed pretty disorganized when we got there. There  were no signs or anything to tell us where to go or where to park, and when we did get to the office of Residence Life they didn't seem to know what to do. There was no elevator, and Peter's room is on the third floor! I made friends with a crippled dad whom I met inching his way downstairs with his cane. Eventually we found Peter's room, which was already occupied by a sleeping dude, (this is at noon) aka Roommate #1. He  explained that he was still sleeping because he had gone to  bed at 4:00 a.m. and didn't say anything else as long as we were there except that he told us where the Ethernet connection was.  He was playing a game on his computer that was making strange moaning noises the whole time we were there. I kept thinking it was him, but luckily I was wrong. Here's Peter at his desk. Even though the room was a triple, there was plenty of room for Peter's stuff.  Here's Peter hanging the flag of Brittany in his window. After we found the room we went to lunch, unpacked, and then went to the bookstore for a few forgotten items. We went back home after that. It seems pretty strange not to have Peter around. I expect we'll soon be settling into the "empty nest" lifestyle, where we go to bed at 9:00 p.m., buy half gallons of milk, and pay inordinate amounts of attention to our pets.   Well, must go, I think Olive wants a snack.