Lovely walk around UBC today

It's 8:26 pm Saturday night and the rain has begun in earnest again.  Well,  at least it isn't an ice storm like Toronto is getting.

It was really quite delightful weather for a change.

Our first stop was the Bookstore as that was where I needed to get my parking pass for events at Cecil Green for the Faculty Women's Club.  Ah yes...academic gowns and motar board hats.

So I got a photo of these bilingual signs which are very new.

Amidst all the new,  these old stone buildings are what we remember most about our days at UBC over 50 years ago.

The place where Jim and I went for coffee after we reconnected walking at UBC is now a Triple O's.

This facility was just opened recently and I'm so glad to see it.  I also like the design and the placement right at the heart of UBC as we know it....the old main library and clock tower.

Looking down the mall where we met.

And lo and behold,  there is this handsome man....did I know "nodding" would lead to being married for 50 years!

Love the cherry blossom trees.

 The old "Faculty Club" that students occupied in 1968.  Jerry Rubin was talking at UBC and had a pig.  He asked, "Where can't students go?"  and so they had a "sit in" and occupied the Faculty Club...the pig lead the way.   It was on a Thursday when there were only classes in the morning so students could attend special events. We usually tried to organize our classes so we didn't have to go out on Thursdays so we weren't on campus that day.  The next day students were still in the Faculty Club so we went as well and were there when a prof convinced everyone to leave.  The students who had been there since the day before were glad to have an out.  The next week we had a day that was called a "teach in" ....students taking over the class.  In my classes,  this didn't last long.

These next photo is of what was called the Graduate Student Centre and we had many drinks there overlooking the ocean and mountains when Jim was doing his MA and I was doing my teacher training year.  It still seems to be a place for things related to graduate studies.

Well,  there wasn't anything like this in our day.

Always wonderful views around and often we listened to the old fog horns drone on accompanying the prof's lecture.  There was something quite wonderful about the sound of these old fog horns and the fog. No fog today.