I write this post from the Hampton Inn Downtown in New Orleans. Tomorrow is Move-In day for Tulane, and we’re here to do our part, by contributing Jeff to the Tulane Community (after schlepping back out to Metairie to pick up dorm stuff).

Tulane has this separation bit down to a science; they have a ton of activities for the students, and a mostly-different ton for parents. So sometime Sunday before 3:30, we’ll say “goodbye” for a few weeks (we’re planning to return for Parent/Family weekend).

But for tonight, we’re still all together.

At the Shir Hadash Hard Hat Ball earlier this year, we signed up for “Hike and Havdalah”, and, after a few false starts, the event finally took place yesterday. One of the hosts brought along his GPS, and after the event, sent me a Google image showing where we’d walked (the blue line — downhill, mostly).

My calves have been letting me know that they aren’t used to that kind of downhill walk, but other than that, it was great fun and I’d like to do it again.

(Oh, and even though there are caches indicated on the picture, we didn’t even try to find them.)