The Day We Wandered into Washington

Last week, one of my oldest Seattle friends (which means I've known him since Day 2 of being here, even though that was just 4 weeks ago), Randy, offered to take me on a tour of the UW campus! My roommate, Cilla, came with us and we had a grand time walking around. The campus is gorgeous, and here are a few photos documenting our explorations. :)

The sign! Which makes it official that I was actually there.

The bell tolls from the tower of this hall! Too bad it doesn't play "Boomer Sooner." :)

This is called a "monkey tail" tree. How could I not take a picture of this?

It was a beautiful day when we were walking on campus! Here's one of the halls just off the Quad.

Their equivalent of the South/North oval: this is called "The Quad."

Their buildings are beautiful and I especially like the gothic architecture/red brick theme they had going on some of these! (Just like O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a)

They call this place "Red Square." That's right, SS.

School of Music! Laura, Maggie, etc, feast your eyes on this because I thought of you in this moment.

On a clear day you can look down this way past the fountain and see Mt. Rainier! Too bad it's only clear 13 days of the year. (Okay, probably more).

The Suzzalo library on UW's campus! Really beautiful building!

I just really like staircases.

The Suzzalo equivalent to Bizzell's Great Reading Room. This room is AMAZING.

My friend Randy, who was also our tour guide, took us to the part of the library where he works: with the newspapers from around the world! They get sent here, and they're available for viewing to anyone who wants them! Then after a certain amount of time, they catalog them on microfilm and then they're available forever! It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen! Here are some of the recent newspapers from around the world that we got to see:

Russia! It's the newspaper! For Sally and Josh.

The latest from the French world for Lindsey, Kyle, Claire, et al.

Here's some Svedish news for you, Natalia!

For the German speakers I could think of, Daniel, Thomas, David, and sometimes Justin.

The Husky! Their mascot. Looks friendly!

They have a bowling alley in the basement of their student union. Don't even get me started on how awesome this is.

These pillars look (kind of) like the MIZZOU ones, so I took this picture for Doug and Julie!

What a fun day! A nice man sitting near the pillars offered to take our picture together. Voila!