Amherst Part I (college)

Went to Amherst with little bro, his friend Andrew and my mom on Thursday. There's real Mexican food there, made by real Mexicans. La Verecruzana if you're ever there. It's across from the town green.

College towns are neat. Very unlike Irvine. Also, like all cities in the entire country that's not Southern California, there a lot of old pretty churches and things. I took lots of pictures.

We went on a tour of UMass for Ricky. The tour guide, who made 2 references to Saved by the Bell, told us that if no questions were asked after each stop, he would make us all ask a question, so I asked lots of questions about dorm food and on-line registration. It's a pretty nice campus. It's from 1863. Here's the old chapel:


It is nice to know, though, that even a lovely old campus has had it's bad moments architecturally. The student center is a massive gray concrete fin, very modern, uglier than anything at UCI, I'm happy to say, and all the administrative buildings look like this:


Ricky says he wouldn't mind going there if he doesn't get in anywhere else. He thinks he wants to go to Irvine. I'm trying to convince him otherwise.

Ricky seems vaguely jealous that Kelly's got a picture on the ol' blog and he doesn't. Here's a picture of Ricky playing the bass.


He's very good. His hair is in cornrows now.