Lafayette -- Not feelin' the love

McFly...Helllooo, McFly! Is that where we first got that "Helllllooooo..." saying? Before we get to the actual college, let me just say that the town of Easton, PA looks just like where Marty grew up in Back to the Future...with the clock tower and all! Town square, ice cream parlor, hot dog stand...I only wish I had spent 4th of July here!

That aside, Lafayette College is "pretty" and "compact" with a lot of engineering students (why in the heck do we always get the college tour with the engineering students?) It's in the Patriot League with Bucknell, Colgate, Lehigh (their arch-rival enemy and Austin's least favorite school he has seen), Holy Cross to name a few (who can remember all of these small liberal-arts colleges? It's not like it's the PAC-10! )

Remember during sorority rush, a girl would come through who was nice, but....? We called those girls NGBs -- nice girl but... Lafayette is, so far, the NGB of our college search. Yeah, it's pretty (what isn't around here?), but so was the NGB. Yeah, it's friendly, but the NGB was friendly, too. Something is just missing -- personality maybe?

Oh, one memorable moment...we drive into Easton last night, get out of the car, and Austin yells, "Mom, there's all of these bugs and they're FLASHING!" Poor lad, he had never seen a fire fly before. Well, truth be told, neither had I and we thought they were quite enchanting...like sparkling Christmas lights but in gut-wrenching heat....

Let me tell you, Pennsylvania looks A LOT different in the summer than in the early spring! Heat and humidity are a given, but that doesn't take away from the beauty of this keystone state. I've always wondered why it's called the keystone state. In the vote for independence, nine delegates to the Continental Congress were from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It's said that the Pennsylvania delegation was split; four for independence and four against. The deciding vote fell to John Morton.... who voted for independence. Pennsylvania's vote for independence was noted as the keystone vote; the supporting vote for a new government. And that's the only history lesson you're going to get on this blog!

Okay, let's get down to the nitty-gritty: Amish sightings. We saw two Amish women yesterday and can't wait to go to Amish country tomorrow to take secret photos of the Amish people (they don't like you to take photos of them, so Austin and I have set up a secret way to do so.)

Wait, isn't this a college-tour blog, not a travel blog? Sorry, the two go hand-in-hand, and when there's not a lot to talk about concerning the college, I tend to go off on tangents....Tomorrow we go to Franklin and Marshall College...talk then....