Anyway, we putted along the highway for a couple minutes and then stopped to check in at the hotel. We set down our baggage, and went into the heart of the campus. We spent about fifteen minutes walking around the Planetarium in search of the Visitors' center; after being directed to the entrance we'd already been to about five times, we finally found the sign that said it was closed on weekends...so we gave ourselves a tour. Here's a bit of what we saw:
Kenan Stadium Gates
The Bell Tower
Dad was very disappointed with the campus: the people were too polite, the grounds were too pretty, the atmosphere was too laid back. He thinks it would be absolutely unbearable. In his backhanded form of compliments, he added the tag "if you like that kind of thing" to the end of every positive thing about the campus. For example, "The new music building will be in the heart of the campus...if you like that kind of thing."
We went to Mass at the Newman Center Parish. Not a whole lot of college kids, surprisingly. Lots of older people. I really loved the pastor, Monsignor Wall; he's very old school for a campus priest. The architecture of the parish is nearly a carbon copy of my parish in South Carolina, St. John Neumann; without pews and kneelers, of course.
After Dinner at Jack Sprat Cafe, we attended the Sousa Spectacular! concert performed by the UNC bands. They played some of my favorites, such as "Fairest of the Fair," and "The Stars and Stripes Forever," as well as a few new ones, such as "Humoresque on the Suwannee" and "The Whistler and his Dog." Their Assistant Band Director did a killer rendition of "Flight of the Bumblebee" as a solo. The whole performance was out of this world!
From what I've seen so far, I really like this kind of thing.
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