Monday

MONDAY

Monday was our BYU/Provo day. We all meet down on the BYU campus (where Rich, his siblings, all of us spouses, his parents and many of his cousins went to school). When we had been thinking of the reunion and things we wanted to do, we thought it would be neat to show the kids BYU campus where all of us meet our spouses… I came up with the idea to do a scavenger hunt of places throughout the campus that had a significant memory for people in the family. I took “clues” that people wrote about a significant place and described the event, and told where it was and then we had to guess which family member had submitted that event. We broke into three groups with three different lists of clues, so each group didn’t have to walk all over the entire campus. Then we would walk to the place, read the clue, decide who we thought it was about, and take a picture of someone in our group holding up the name of who we had decided it was about. It really was a fun activity and I had a lot of fun tagging along with the group and playing the poker face while they tried to figure out who the clue went to…


BYU Scaveger hunt clues (from memory… I can’t find my copy that I had)

Group A:
1. This person described this as the “best class on campus” he took it three times. It was intermediate golf and held on the field south of the Smith Field House. {Dave}
2. Two people in our family went on their first date to a volleyball game at the Smith Field House. Afterward they walked over to the Grandparents house and had dessert and played games. {Rich and Julie}
3. Two people had their first kiss on the steps of the Smith Family Living Center. The steps are no longer there, but there is a new Smith Family Living Center built in it’s place. {Lamar and Eileen}
4. First impressions are not always true. These two people were paired together for a ward dance, and ditched each other at the dance held at the Smith Family Living Center and left with other friends. {Rich and Julie}
5. Two people in our family meet while going to an Astronomy class lab on the top of the Kimball Tower. {Sharon and James}
6. One person in the family spent “a lot of time” at the computer lab in the Talmage building. {Bob}
7. One person in the family spent some time at the jewelry counter selecting matching CTR engagement rings for herself and her intended. {Laura}

Group B:
1. Two people in our family went on their first date to the DeJong Concert Hall. They saw “Magic Flute” {Laura and Bob}
2. Two people in our family had a special spot. It was a fountain on the south side of the Smoot Administration building. There they would practice their two step around the fountain. {Lewis and Dianne}
3. One person in our family spent a lot of time at the Harold B Lee library. He would spend 3-4 hours a day there studying. He was found there one evening by the Hewlett Packard Recruiter with the help of a special significant other. {Lewis}
4. The Wind Tunnel in the Engineering building is where this person spent a lot of time. They would test wing shapes in it. {Troy}
5. The Bike racks at the Knight Magnum building would usually not be considered a romantic spot. For two people in our family it was though. He proposed to her there and after three more hours of talking she said “yes”. {Laura and Bob}

Group C:
1. The museum of Art holds some memories for one person. She had the “Dining plus” on her meal card and would meet her sister there for lunch during her first year at BYU. She also took an Art Appreciation class that left her not appreciating art quite as much. {Laura}
2. Two people in our family went on their first date to the DeJong Concert Hall. They watched “Sunday in the park with George”. {Lamar and Eileen}
3. This person lived in Deseret Towers in “R” Hall. She invited her future spouse to an “R” hall dance for their first date. {Dianne}
4. One person in our family spent a lot of time in the south parking lot of DT practicing with the BYU Marching band. There was a white “tower” that the band members jokingly referred to as the “Rameumptom” where the director would watch to see the formations and shapes the band created. {Heidi}
5. The BYU Basketball team had a thrilling game against Utah and beat them in a close finish at the Marriot Center. One member of the family was there to witness the great game. He was also at a lot of their other games with front row seats as BYU only won that one game that year. {Dave}

It was fun. Afterwards we went to the Wilkenson Student Center and had lunch and then we all went bowling afterwards. It was fun to see the kids try to bowl. A lot of them had never bowled before. After we were all done bowling we went over to Rock Canyon Park.

Rock Canyon Park is where Rich and I took our engagement photo’s at. It has changed sooo much in the past 10 years. I barely recognized the turn off to it because what used to be empty areas surrounding it are now full of houses! We spent the afternoon and early eveing playing games, eating, laughing and just having a great time together. We didn’t leave until dark- and on the way home the Alyssa and Angela fell fast asleep since they hadn’t had any nap at all that day. That made bedtime really fast since we just transferred the little ones into their beds fast asleep. Then again us adults got to stay up and talk and play games probably later than we should have, but it was fun for all of us.