<p>We just received the postcard this week and are planning to go. We went freshman year, couldn't go last year (missed Bill Cosby!), and will go this year. DD excited to see Martin Short! We will go to the football game, too. It will be nice to go to Newark and have more to do than take DD shopping! </p>
<p>I made hotel reservations a couple of months ago (cancelable in case we changed our mind), but we just decided we will definitely go. </p>
<p>Who else will be there?</p>
<p>We are going. Also booked hotel for Sat. night too but not sure whether that’s good idea/worthwhile.</p>
<p>We did not get the postcard. Does it say what is going on? We are booked and going…</p>
<p>Go to the below. </p>
<p>[UD</a> Parents and Family Weekend - A UD community celebration](<a href=“Parents and Family Weekend | Families | University of Delaware”>Parents and Family Weekend | Families | University of Delaware)</p>
<p>Ticket sales are not until August 6.</p>
<p>Okay, after 3 kids in college, I’m going to be the naysayer here, in case anyone who can’t go, may be feeling badly about it.</p>
<p>Hotel rates are jacked up unconscionably for that weekend. Restaurants for dinner and lunch are packed and difficult to get into. Cosby was… forgetable. We learned nothing from or about the school we didn’t already know. We wound up not going to the football game or tailgate, or soccer game, or other programs and just spent time with our D. It’s all kind of artificial. </p>
<p>Unless your child is in a game or concert, I’d say, go another weekend, maybe when your child is homesick (or you miss them) or when your child needs you to bring something or to get something at the Mall. You’ll see campus the way it really is, and to do more easier and more cheaply.</p>
<p>We went the first year, enjoyed the football game, etc., but felt no compulsion to go back. Last year S came home that weekend, so we visited him on a different day (we only live about an hour away), took him and some friends out to dinner, and enjoyed the slightly easier parking, etc. We’ll probably do the same thing this year.</p>
<p>mhc48 and booklady, thank you for your comments. We talked about going but decided with the crowds and how bad parking might be, we would rather visit DS a different weekend. We’re only about an hour away, too, so we can easily make it any weekend. Or even weekday as his classes end at 9:55 M,W,F.</p>
<p>This is our third time around as well and at our other kids parent weekends (which we only went to the first year)we pretty much went shopping and took him out to eat. I do not want to go this time but then that guilt sets in and the third child not getting what the other two did blah blah blah LOL!!! Not to mention him feeling bad and being the only kid with no family there that weekend and did I mention the guilt??</p>
<p>mhc is right that you shouldn’t feel bad skipping parents weekend. My DD’s freshman year, several of her friends picked that weekend to go home. Last year, I was tied up with work and couldn’t go and didn’t feel bad about it at all. The timing just happens to work for us this year and it will be fun for our family to be together for some fun at the comedy show and the football game.</p>
<p>I’ll be heading down with the rest of the family early on Saturday morning. Do some tailgating before the game, cheer on the Fightin’ Blue Hens, then head out of town for dinner and shopping before returning home that night.</p>
<p>Newark is only 1:45 hours from home on back country roads so the round-trip drive is very tolerable.</p>