SarahPrinceton Of course, these events were just the prelude to the main events of the weekend. It was freshman parent's weekend, so we went to campus and took the obligatory mother and daughter ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1646 and father and daughter ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1647 pictures before a person passing by insisted that if we didn't let him take this picture ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1648 of the 3 of us, Sarah would be traumatized for life by not remembering who came to see her that weekend. His comments about trauma caused me to take this picture ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1649 on the way home to make sure I wouldn't be traumatized by a camera with a broken battery. Jane ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1650 was fairly incognito as she got ready to go to New York for an overnight and so had to miss the visit to Sarah's room ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1651 that Benjamin ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1652 seemed to enjoy. After taking a picture of Sarah with Robert Accordino, her RA, ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1653 we felt that the only thing left to do was to observe Sarah's bicycle ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1654 standing regally in the rain and then declare Freshman parent's weekend a success.

Later that day, Benjamin and I decided to brave the rain and go to the Princeton/Colgate football game where we ran into Jon and Jonah ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1655 and sat with them as we watched the cheerleaders ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1656 scream for the score ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1657 to change against an ominous sky. The little raiders ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1658 didn't scare the tiger ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1659 even as Mr. Number 15 practiced kicking ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1660 hoping that he'd get a chance to show his talents before the game ended. He was a very lucky man because after blowing a field goal that should have been a chip shot, Benjamin and I showed them the way down field so that Princeton could snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and snag a 14-10 victory.

Back at home, Benjamin was sorting pennies on the chess board ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1661 using the handcuffs as a prop for the obvious reasons as the bags of recent decades ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1662 grew and we still needed to sort the silver ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1663 and handle the English coins ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1664 before we could head out to dinner at a new restaurant ../../../Sabbat/10.12-13.02ParentsWeekendAndNYC//IMG_1665 appropriately chosen for parents weekend to take Sarah to a recent in a distant town that had been recommended by people who knew the area.