Illinois - The Weekend Before Tula, Mexico

I had some complaints from the peanut gallery about not including info about my trip down to Champaign.
Every year University of Illinois has Mom's Weekend in April. During mom's weekend masses of moms and sisters visit and attend the craft fair, plays, and the flower show.

Every year I was in school we visited the flower show where the sell flowers and have these awesome garden displays constructed by horticulture/landscape architecture students...and I guess anyone else who wants to help.

WELL -- This year Becca (my younger sister - landscape architecture major) helped put together an AWESOME display. This year's theme was Gardens Around the World (or something like that). There were gardens from France, Germany, In Your Backyard for example and Becca's group did the Amazon Rainforest. Even though I am a little biased, it was definitely the best :)

Above is Becca in front of one portion of the garden. She is standing in front of the awesome water feature put together by one of her teammates. To the left is my mom in the entrance to the garden. Below is a picture of us at our favorite Urbana/Champaign Mexican restaurant - Dos Reales! When I suggested we go to Dos -- I had no idea that I would be in Mexico 3 days later :)