Fighting Illini!

On April 24th Bryant, his mother Laurel, and I flew out to visit the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.We started the trip off pretty smoothly, getting to the airport on time, but of course, our flight was delayed due to the monsoon taking place in Chicago. Once we were finally in flight, it ended up being the longest 3 hours of my life. We arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport around 11:00 pm and had to drive in the pouring rain for 2 hours until we finally arrived in Champaign around 1:30 am. Thanks to my old roomie, Paige, she was sure to tell us what areas to make sure our doors were locked as we were leaving Chicago. :)Sunday morning we rolled out of bed and found a church near the university to attend so we could get a feel for the people in the area. It was a really cute ward,

filled with tons of crying babies. (I'm assuming babies are a universal theme in all wards!) After church we drove around campus like typical tourists.

The law school building was beautiful inside. It was by far the prettiest library of the law schools we've looked at.

This is a picture of their football stadium. It was amazing in person!

It was nice to see what real fraternities and sororities look like! ( No offense, USU)

The recreation center was the most amazing thing about the campus. Bryant was drooling the whole time. Everything was brand new and absolutely huge. Definitely a tempting aspect of the school for Bryant. :)

While Bryant was busy touring the school and meeting with the Dean of the law school, Laurel and I drove around Champaign scouting out the area for potential homes. There were plenty of "waterfront" properties, which basically meant that you had a flooded canal behind your house. As soon as he was finished at the school, we had to start our 2 hour drive to the airport, and we just happened to get into Chicago as rush hour hit. It did give me plenty of time to take some pictures!

I definitely fell in love with Champaign! It was such a nice area and it was definitely an area I could see us living. We'll see what happens from here!