Honeymoon Day 11: Destination #6 to my mom's house

On Thursday morning (Christmas!!!) we woke up early so we could get checked out and go to mass. The hotel had a full hot breakfast, so went and ate some of that before finishing up our packing and checking out. We intended on going to the 10am mass at Notre Dame, but we ended up not making it. We could not for the life of us figure out how to get ONTO campus. I spent a summer doing research there, but I parked in student parking and just walked everywhere on campus. I didn't know where visitor parking was and since it's a gated campus, it's a little difficult figuring out where you can get it. We drove around the entire campus and took at least 1 road that ended in a closed gate before we found an entrance with a person who could let us in. By the time we got parked, mass was more than halfway over :(. The doors to the Basilica were all closed and I wasn't sure which ones went to the back and which to the sides on the front and I didn't want to be 'that person' who comes at the end of mass. So we decided to walk around campus instead. I showed Troy all the places I remembered from living there and then we went back to the car to warm up. It was FREEZING.

That was the end of our honeymoon! We drove back to Muskegon to spend Christmas with my mom. We had a ton of fun, but I think we're both pretty excited to get home and see Pudge (our cat). It will be another week until we get to do that though; we're spending a few days with my family, going up to Traverse City to be with Troy's family for a couple days, and then going to spend New Year's Eve with friends in Port Sanilac. Whew! I'll have been gone for at least 3 weeks by the time I get to go home again. I'm sure we'll have a good time with family though!