One of our goals for this trip was to brainwash the children that BYU was THE college to attend. 🙂 The idea is that they will go to school there for their undergrad degrees, and to find a nice LDS spouse (the pickin’s are slim around here). Then they get a master’s degree anywhere they want, or just be finished with school, depending on what they want to do in life. BYU is a nice, relatively safe and controlled environment to introduce them to independent life, as well as life in the US. It worked for Chris and most of his siblings, so we figure we might as well try it out.
Anyway, as part of the brainwashing, we took them on a tour of campus, starting with the Museum of Art. Where Jenna and I promptly got spoken to for taking a photo in the lobby of the kids. Apparently, no photography is allowed in the museum. Oops, sorry!
But, of course, the rebel in me had to sneak a pic of this because it was just so cool.
It was hundreds and hundreds of books stacked on top of one another to form a giant cube. There were scriptures, textbooks, notebooks, hymn books, phone books and regular novels all mixed in together. The kids could not stop looking at it.
When we had gotten our fill of non-touchable art, we went outside and had a more interactive experience.
 We are so doing this with every statue we see from now on. So fun!
Next stop was the bookstore, but we cut through the HFAC and saw this cool art display.
 We walked through this same area several more times during our trip, and the display was different each time. Very fun. Strangely, this is the kind of modern art I love.
 The kids were surprised at how large the campus is. I think it freaked them out a little, thinking they would never be able to navigate it themselves. I remember thinking the same thing when I came to EFY as a teenager. 🙂
The highlight of the tour was visiting Uncle Steven. Last August he started his job there as a professor, and we went to see his office and him. 
First he showed the kids some cool mechanical bugs, to help explain what it is he does. (They were so neat, we ended up buying one to play with at home. Not from him. At a store.) Then we walked over to another building to see his research lab. He let all the kids have a turn with the cool machines.
In a nutshell, he measures the movements people make with their hands/arms on a daily basis. This way, when something stops working, they will have a better idea of how to fix it, or at least to determine what is wrong. Or something like that. I got a phone call in the middle of the presentation and missed some of it. Plus, biometric engineering is just a tad over my head. 🙂
But Steven was able to explain it all in a fun and interesting way to the kids. Look at those smiles!
Later, Jenna and I and some of the kids went shopping and ate a delicious dinner at Carrabba’s. Those who didn’t want to join us went to eat at Taco Bell again. Chris’ goal? To eat so much of it that everyone was sick of it by the time we left. His goal was achieved. 🙂