<p>i would like to read about the experiences parents have had at previous family members weekend events as my wife and i are thinking about attending this years family members weekend. thanks for any information you can provide.</p>
<p>I did go to parents weekend last year (it is earlier this year as last year it was in may). She had classes that day so we did not get there until about 4 pm. Booked a hotel through expedia, stayed in white river junction.</p>
<p>Overall we had a nice time, took D to dinner at Mollie's one night, the other night we went to Murphys. Had breakfast at Lou's on saturday morning, it was packed so wear comfortable shoes. </p>
<p>I remember her taking me to watch her friends perform in a show. There are activites, open houses and other events scheduled through out the weekend as well (I remember her taking me to someone's cookout) as discussion groups aout educational and social things going on at Dartmouth. The event of the weekend are planned in your case by the 9's. </p>
<p>I did attend the discussion with my D that they had about greek life (because at the time she was thinking about pledging and I wanted to hear the talk track. there were actualy quite a few parents there with their kids). Your kids want to drag you around to meet their friends, you meet their friend's parents. You have to smile to yourself because all of the little nagging questions you are asking your kid, everyone else is asking theirs. I never heard so many moms asking their sons "are they feeding you well" :)</p>
<p>Here is the schedule for this years first family weekend. I hope you have a nice time. Sophmore family weekend is in July.</p>
<p>Also attended - enjoyed meeting the friends and the parents of the friends and having proud students show us the ropes of the institution they had well embraced by spring quarter. You could probably have a wonderful visit on any given weekend, but there were seminars and activities (as Sybbie said planned by '09s) of interest this particular weekend. Its certainly not imperative you go. Students whose families were understandably not able to make it tended to tag along to dinner with other student/parent groups. If you have already seen the campus and feel you have a good sense of it, you might not gain a huge additional insight, but if you are inclined to attend, your child will probably be very happy you chose to, and if your experience is similar to ours, you will very much enjoy seeing it through the eyes of your now-immersed student, meeting his or her friends and their parents, maybe attending a class, and getting a good sense of their home in Hanover. Its so unusual to have this in the Spring, rather rather than the Fall, but for a lot of reasons it possibly makes more sense. </p>
<p>One thing - if you are planning to go, you might want your children to make dinner reservations for you and their friends parents in advance.</p>
<p>Glad we were able to go.</p>