We drove over to the Notre Dame campus for a tour. For about an hour and a half we and about twenty others walked around behind our tour guide while he filled us in on university history, football, buildings, football, academic programs, and football.
One of the most interesting buildings was the university's main building, which is named the "Main Building." When the gold leaf on the dome is replaced every so often, the old gold is sprayed onto the football team's helmets.
Another famous campus site is the Grotto, a 1/7 size replica of the grotto at Lourdes. A statue of Dr. Tom Dooley, a Notre Dame alumnus, stands nearby, with a copy of a letter he wrote to Fr. Ted Hesburgh as he was dying of cancer. Dr. Dooley is famous for his humanitarian efforts to improve medical care in Southeast Asia. in his letter he expressed a great longing for the peace and spirituality of the Notre Dame Grotto.
Another part of the day was spent on a tour of the Entegra fifth-wheel trailer factory. This is a new operation that bought the assets of Travel Supreme, which went out of business earlier this year.
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