Back to Belmont

It has been more than 10 years since I met these ladies and spent every day with them on the Belmont University campus. Unappetizing lunches in the "caf", beautiful fall days listening to our friends play the guitar on the lawn and singing along, crazy Sara and her purple backpack WAY too full of books running to catch up with us while we prayed she wouldn't trip and seriously hurt herself this time, and coming home to our on-campus apartment and telling my roomies that Casey had just proposed. Good times!

A lot on campus has changed. They've added buildings where we remember a small parking lot being and all of the sudden...there stands a huge auditorium! But so much was the same. The bookstore, the bathrooms, the smell of the music building as you enter the doors, the beautiful landscaping and gazebos that are the nucleus of the small campus.

We loved getting to go back. Older. Wiser. 9 kids between us (2 of whom came along for the tour)!!! We shared memories and our first impressions of one another. Snob. Ditz. Dances-everywhere-she-goes. Stuck-up. We couldn't have been more wrong about each other (except for Sara...she does dance everywhere she goes). And capped it all off by singing our Alma-Mater at the top of our lungs!

In front of our old dorm, Maddox Hall

The Belmont Tower where good 'ol Dr. Shadinger
used to play the bells in the morning The stroller Mamas, Jess & Sara

Lisa modeling the latest in collegiate
fashion at the BU bookstore

Debate '08 signage was up everywhere. This is the
Curb Auditorium where the debate took place

Lisa & Corrie in the middle of the campus

Me & Lisa in front of the student center

The music majors (Sorry, Corrie) in front of the
Sam Wilson School of Music Building

And for your viewing pleasure...a tour of the practice rooms where we used to spend most of our time. Hours of piano practicing, vocalizing, accompanist rehearsals and a lot of goofing off.