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 and father and daughter pictures before a person passing by insisted that if we didn't let him take this picture 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 on the way home to make sure I wouldn't be traumatized by a camera with a broken battery. Jane 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 that Benjamin seemed to enjoy. After taking a picture of Sarah with Robert Accordino, her RA, we felt that the only thing left to do was to observe Sarah's bicycle 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 and sat with them as we watched the cheerleaders scream for the score to change against an ominous sky. The little raiders didn't scare the tiger even as Mr. Number 15 practiced kicking 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 using the handcuffs as a prop for the obvious reasons as the bags of recent decades grew and we still needed to sort the silver and handle the English coins before we could head out to dinner at a new restaurant 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.