SUUSI report: Day 1

The only good thing about having a child who gets carsick is that you can use Dramamine for long car trips without feeling like a child abuser. It certainly made the drive to SUUSI easy - Alex only slept for about an hour, but she spent the rest of the trip in a drug-induced mellow, staring out the window and listening to music. The trip was absolutely uneventful - just what you want a five-hour drive to be, and certainly a nice change from last year.
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SUUSI report, Day 2.

Alex woke us up a little after seven on Monday morning, and after our showers we headed out to breakfast with bosssio and her boys. Meals with the kids were really the hardest part of SUUSI. We'd haul the kids through the crowded cafeteria - not just SUUSI participants, but incoming freshmen and their parents at VT for orientation, plus undersupervised kids attending various sports camps - to our usual seating area, a large glass-walled room at one end of the dining room where families with small children tended to congregate because the enclosure made supervision easier. One of us would sit with the kids while the others fought the lines for food, and then we'd switch places. Meals were not particularly restful.
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