Photo-A-Day #02699
Today was my 30th College Reunion from Saint Anselm College. Allison and I drove up from home in the morning to arrive for the lunch on the open space in front of Joan of Arc Hall. That area had been a parking lot the whole time that I was a student and when I worked at the college. Now it is a almost like a second quad. It is a nice place to hang out. We did run into two of my former classmates but that was it for lunch. We sat with some of the Golden Anselmians. It seemed as if people were only coming for the class dinner tonight.
We walked all over campus looking at the new buildings and a lot of the landscaping that has been done over the years to make it look even nicer. It was always a pretty campus but it is even nicer now. We eventually made our way up the hill where we were going to an event called Beers and Benedictines. But first we walked through the Abbey Church. I don't think that Allison had ever been inside before.
The Beers and Benedictines was a nice event. a couple of the monks gave a talk about the history of brewing at Benedictine monasteries. Saint Anselm des not brew beer at the monastery. One monk had started it but never took formal orders and when he left, so did the beer making.
I had brought my pub mug to have a beer at the pub but when we went to try and get in at 1:30 we were told they were closing for an event even though the schedule said that the pub would be open until 2pm. But I did use my mug at the Beers and Benedictines because they had many samples to let us try along with some hors d'oeuvres.
For dinner we sat with a couple of classmates who were commuters and I completely did not remember one of them and the other I vaguely remembered. But they remembered me. We had a nice dinner and we also found another classmate to eat with us. Like I said earlier it was very sparsely attended by people from my class. We took a group photo and ours was the smallest group.
After dinner we moved over to another table with three women from my class that we had hung out with back in 2022 for the last reunion. I'm figuring that we won't go to the 35th but the 40th instead. It was a nice time but I wish more friend were there.