Inauguration Chapel

As a kick off to the Inauguration Week we had a special chapel service...complete with special music, various readers, pray-ers, and a special message by Grazina (one of our Lithuanian faculty members.)  It was a wonderful celebratory way to start the week of festivities!

A much fuller stage than we normally have in chapel!

Grazina makes a point!

Ugly Duckling Cup

The Ugly Duckling Cup is our annual campus event where teams of students and faculty/staff build rafts and race across the pond between the residence halls.  It's always a comical and fun event.  Here are some photos...

The AMAZING RDs who planned it..

Alisha, Josh, and Amanda

Pirate on the pond!

Josh & John steering the faculty raft.

The race is on!

Alisha and Amanda on the raft...trying not to fall in!

Look at the crowd...people even in the windows!

The winning team!  

Neumann East side

Earl and Rebecca came to visit!

The first weekend of September was one that I was looking forward to with great anticipation.  My childhood best friend, Rebecca, and her husband, Earl., came to visit me!  They were here Thursday evening through Monday morning.  We had an absolutely wonderful time together...playing games, eating yummy foods, and talking for hours on end!  

We spent Saturday afternoon going to the Spit and seeing the beauty of the Baltic!  

It was a gray and windy day - check out those waves!

me & Rebecca by the sea

Rebecca and I had been to the spit in February of 2011 with our friend

Kristine, so we wrote her a little note in the sand.

Rebecca touching the sea!

me, Earl, and Rebecca

The Robinsons on the ferry with Klaipeda in the background