It's Just Me and You, Kid

Well, on Thursday of last week, we moved Benjamin out of the house and into the dorms at college.  It was a hot, muggy day.  Benjamin's dorm room (of course) was on the third floor and there are no elevators.  It was quite heavy moving the dorm fridge and all his other personal belongings up three flights of stairs.  We learned when we got to his room that the air conditioners in the room don't quite keep up.  We added a couple of fans to the list of things to get for him along with some curtains.  Tricia quickly made his bed and he unpacked and got his room organized.

His apartment-style dorm has six students in it.  Benjamin shares a room with a roommate and there is another student in a single room and the three of them share a bathroom.  All six of them share a den or common area.  There is an identical two bedrooms, one bathroom, and three roommates on the other side of the den.  Benjamin will be majoring in Electrical Engineering and so he and Tricia went shopping for a laptop computer that has the requirements for his major.  He starts his classes on Monday, August 19th.

Benjamin spent the weekend going to "Cowboy Camp," an orientation for McNeese State University in Lake Charles where he learned all the in's and out's of college life.  The university is about 35 minutes away from home.  He's far enough away for him to have his independence, but close enough to home if he needs anything.

As Tricia and I got settled in at home to a VERY quiet house that seemed very large now that there's only two of us, she looked at me and said, "It's just you and me, kid."  This is gonna take some getting used to!