Dorm Move In & Alec's Dorm Photos

 Alec and I loaded up the car Wednesday morning. I was literally unable to sleep the night before thinking there was no way we were going to fit all his stuff (see yesterday's post!) into my car. But first try we got it all to fit! There wasn't really any room to spare but that's okay, we all fit and so did everything he wanted to bring with him. 

Since Alec is in the honors program he got to move in 2 days before the rest of the school (on Thursday).. which meant we didn't hear a whole lot from the school on what to expect for move in day. We were told to be there anywhere between 10 am and 7 pm so we decided to shoot for the 10 am and give ourselves plenty of time. His roommate wouldn't be moving in until Saturday and Alec will have a full day of activities and meetings today (on Friday).  We did label everything with Alec's name, dorm name, and room # just in case and printed out a parking pass (again, just in case)-- none of which we needed to do but were required for Saturday move-in.

Chilling out, laughing, and watching videos on his phone waiting for us to leave... plants at the ready!

We pulled up, dropped Alec and all his stuff on a literal street corner and went two blocks over to park the car, then we worked together to move his stuff onto the lawn with a few trips each. My husband stood with all his stuff while Alec and I went to check in & get his key. They had a few dollies around so we snagged one and loaded up; trying to make it all in one trip. 

 Once in his room we gave my husband the job of assembling the flat packed TV stand while I  got the bathroom set up and Alec worked on making up the bed. 

We hung up some shelves and a shaving mirror in the shower and some wall hooks for towels

We were pleased to find the mirror is a medicine cabinet with 4 shelves inside

The shower rod is so high there is a weird gap between the curtain and the floor but what can you do?

My husband also set up Alec's TV while Alec moved onto organizing his clothes into the drawers (which he decided to pull out slightly from under his bed) and I hung up the culinary uniforms, sweatshirts, etc. that were going in the closet. The drawer organizers were much too small for the extra deep drawers so I brought those back home (though we used one inside his desk drawer). We also elected not to use his clip light or clip fan since he does have air conditioning and so many other lights. 

He then sat down to get his desk all set up.

Did you notice his cute little baker/gnome statue? My sister in law found that and we thought it was perfect-- it even has a teal bow on it!

Finally we put the wall things up; or at least the sticky things to hold them in place then we took a walk around campus and to the Providence Place Mall to get some cheesecake for lunch (by then it was 1 o'clock).

around the quad:

around Providence

My meal: a house salad and lunch sized flat bread.

We walked back to campus; stopping at CVS along the way to buy some batteries for some of his lights. Once back in his room we set up the pictures, set up all his lights and made sure he could get online, got his TV working, and found the schedule of events for the rest of the day and all of Friday.

Looking into his 1/2 of the room from the doorway-- hopefully his plants enjoy living on the side of the TV; the window sill was not big enough to hold them. 

Since they had an honors meeting room/ Jeopardy game thing planned over near the parking garage we walked Alec up so he'd know where to go tomorrow too-- there's an honors lounge where most of the meetings and activities will take place. Then gave him a hug and said goodbye.

We were home by 5:30-- no tears, no fuss, all in all it was a really great and easy day. 

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