Dogs pant, lapping up water sprayed from a bottle. The partly cloudy day comes to a close as the sun starts to set.

However, the foot traffic in Campustown continues to grow. Waves of people continue to flow through Green Street. At every turn, one can always spot a mother accompanied by her child.

“We made it like a family weekend, not just Moms Weekend,” said Peggy Tsevis, a Sigma Nu mom.

Tsevis celebrated the weekend by attending Mother’s Day Brunch, walking around the University of Illinois Arboretum and attending Sigma Nu events.

“We don’t have a lot of time with them anymore,” Tsevis said. “When they get home, they’re working, they’re seeing their girlfriends, they’re doing this and that. Right now, it’s all about us.”

From 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., the UIUC Horticulture Club hosted its 2023 Spring Plant Fair. The event sold household plants, from succulents to flowering plants.

Danielle Chao, a volunteer at the event, said the RSO had to cart plants back and forth from the Plant Biology Greenhouse to the Plant Sciences Laboratory.

“There was a lot of prep,” Chao said. “Some volunteers went from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. yesterday.”

Chao started buying plants during the COVID-19 lockdown, and became interested in succulents when her mother bought her a succulent kit.

“I mainly have succulents, probably 90% of my collection is succulents,” Chao said.

Kate Gehrke, senior in LAS, and her mother, Ellyn Gehrke, also attended the plant fair.

“I love plants, I’ve got more than 20,” Kate Gehrke said. “(My mother) indulges me over Moms Weekend in my obsessions.”

Earlier, Kate Gehrke and her mother participated in the Illini Union Craft Fair and the ARC’s Zumba class.

“(The class) was the instructor and her stepmom,” she said. “So that was really cute, too.”

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