Last week Dan me and his parents (the other seniors)took Kipp who is a senior at Florida Southern, back to school for his final semester.
It is a really bittersweet time as another phase of his and our life is coming to a close. Dan and I will miss the trips to visit him and well my son is still my son but he is a man and it just seems so strange in a way. My goal was to get him healthy and happily to this point and so I guess I'm somewhat retired.
Lakeland is really a beautiful area and here are some pics of the homes around the college. The white one is my fav. but again my photography skills are lame and dont really show how lovely it is. Tho I could live in any of these gorgeous places. This is what my next home will look like hopefully!
So anyway here are some pics of the college and the Annie Pfiffer Chappel has these wonderful colored glass pieces in the concrete and when you are in the church the sun lights them up like stained glass beaming throughout. Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius! You'll see some of the walkways and unfortunately the fountain (Water Dome) was not running.
Here is a close up of the lil bits of colored glass.
The GREAT and POWERFUL OZ!!!!
While there we usually eat at Harry's. And the food is top notch! Kipp and I love the fried grits and gravy! They serve Lousiana style food and I swear everything we have had there is good but them there grits can make me cry they are so yummy!
Here are the seniors in front of Harry's
and some snapshots of us inside
Kipp needs a haircut! Really bad pic but the others were really really bad.
Jan and Warren, Thank you for the fried grits!!!
Good Bye my sweet Kipp! He heads back to his frat house to which we are not allowed to enter without a hazmat suit!
As we were leaving I took a couple of pics of the swan sculputres(the lake is full of them around the college) they have all around the city. Publix's headquater is there and they have a huge influence on the city. But anyway here's of pic of their office oh and butterflies are around too but not sure why.
An X ray building and swan.
This is the training place for the Detroit Tigers!
And this well this is a pic of the shenanigans that occurred while we were on the road
Hi Carol! It's been a while since I've visited...cuz like I've told you for some reason I can only leave a comment here if I use mozzilla!
ReplyDeleteAnyway....I love the pics, and let me say that your sweet Kipp is such a handsome guy and his hair is wonderful! I would just about give my right arm for some of the curls!
YOU are a little princess, and your Dan a prince!
You have done such a good job raising Kipp, and I was about to cry when I saw the pic of him going back to school as I know it must be emotional for you.
Thanks for the peek of the Tigers training camp. Wish we could come down to see it in person. Maybe some day!
Also....love the homes and thanks for giving us a peek at the campus and the chappel, and the grits sound good too!
Patty your a doll! Thanks! Well Kipp is almost done and that hair is wonderful but its soooo long. giggle
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