Great to hear rumrunner! And I hope Grandma enjoyed it too!
My D has fall break this coming weekend - 4 days at home- whoopee!!!
D also has 4 days at home coming up for fall break, she’s 5 hours away from home by bus and is actually taking the bus. We offered to drive to her school on Saturday to pick her up (a 3 hour drive if there’s no traffic) but she said she preferred to take the bus on Friday and have an extra night at home.
We are driving up for “Family and Friends Weekend” 3 weeks from now. She asked us to come and give her support at her 1st performance with the school orchestra, which will feel familiar–she’s been in orchestra since 4th grade. The school is offering “Academic Highlight” 1 hour classes on Saturday and Sunday.
I enjoyed the sample classes at my son’s school last year and the rest of the family made fun of me. He’s close so we see him often, even more so last year. So it was OK not to spend every minute with him. But for my girl, this year, the choice was easy, any waking minute was with her. Grandma was so impressed with the school and so grateful to be included, practically in tears on several occasions. I know she would have enjoyed a sample class or two as well, but we would have needed more time. We did attend an evening acapella performance and a jazz brunch. At the brunch we had a nice chat with the Asst Director of HR for the college. I like talking to other parents and staff and did a lot of that at all our other visits. This visit though was clearly all about seeing my girl. Something I noticed about my kids, after they go to college and they see me, I get hugs, real hugs that last more that an obligatory second or two. 
D texted me the other day…“One month until you are here!”. My mom and I are going to her weekend and very much looking forward to it. Apparently she is as well 
Yay. I found my wife’s video conferencing (facetime) with her smartphone helped. Gotta get me one of those!
Update: We did go to parents weekend, and it worked out fine, though if we had it to do over, we’d have chosen another weekend (plane tickets and inflexible B&B reservations kept us on the original plan, even though DS wasn’t going to be around as much as we’d hoped).
We didn’t drive him to his sports meet (on the advice of posters here; thanks!) but did join him there, got to see him play, and drove him and a friend back to campus. We enjoyed several meals together and got in a reasonable amount of conversation. We were able to see him “in his element” and see that he is adjusting fine and doesn’t really need us for the day-to-day any more. That is humbling, but it is the goal of parenting, to see your offspring succeed independently. Right? He is happy, busy, and surrounded by friends.
We did have a HUGE heartfelt hug when we left. That will tide me over till Thanksgiving.
YIPPEE! So glad it sounds like things went well for everyone, with the inevitable “surprises” along the way. Glad to read about it!