Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ruby Tuesday

As of Saturday both of our children are at the University of Hartford.
Allegra, Kid One, is a junior now and Cameron, Kid Two, is a freshman (tear, sniff, sniff, waaa!).
I have to say that place is a gold mine for Ruby Tuesday possibilities!!
The school colors are red and white. It's a veritable treasure trove of red stuff. My camera batteries died (errgghh) but I got a few shots, and here are some of the highlights.
This is the new Freshman Success Center. I hope Cameron takes advantage of it, it's directly across from his dorm. The school mascot is Howie Hawk. He is a wild and crazy bird.
The golf cart roof is decorated with a cutout of Howie's likeness. These two students who were helping on freshman move-in day were so friendly and nice. They're Red Caps, which means they had auditioned last spring and were trained over several days to be of assistance.
Our daughter worked as a Howie's Helper for the second year. She really enjoyed it last year and signed up again. We're wondering how much stuff she had to schlep...we'll hear about it eventually.

The Red Caps stand at the driveway to the campus, waving, jumping up and down with welcome signs and making people smile. They help in the parking lots, give directions, smile, greet you, smile some more and are definitely the more "theatrical" of the helpers.

Even the name decoration on the door fits in with the red theme. Cameron's name is on a red domino! How did they know?
The resident assistants covered over the door numbers with backwards numbers. I don't know why. A joke I guess. Or a secret code that I'll never know.
Allegra and the Boyfriend were waiting for their Howie's Helpers shift to start Saturday, so they were able to help us move Cameron's stuff, and answer some questions that he had.
Aren't they cute? And his shirt is red. Yay!

To join the Ruby Tuesday fun, visit Mary, The Teach.

9 comments:

Pea in a Pod said...

Those are some nice shots!Mine is HERE if you have a time! Thanks!

Joan said...

Red, red, red...it's so nice that your kids attend a school that can help you with your blogging. :~)

Oh...and tell Allegra for me that she has great taste in boyfriends!

Linda said...

Ah, the curse of the dead batteries, I know it well!

Great pictures and great memories - red or not!

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

exciting time and cute boyfriend too!!!

smiles, bee
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Queen-Size funny bone said...

who let them grow up?

Dianne said...

Yes they are very cute!!

Time flies doesn't it?

Raven said...

Every cloud has a silver (red) lining! You may have an empty next but you've got lots of cool red photos.

Napaboaniya.Elaine Ling said...

Nice vary of red items from college! :)

GMAC said...

i see a lot of reds! nice.