The Student Recreation Center will transport students and their moms to a peaceful and well-catered day spa for Mom’s Weekend.

Cougs and their visiting moms will be treated to a 30-minute massage. The event will also include foot baths and 30 minutes set aside for tea, coffee, food and relaxing conversation with other students and moms. The event will take place Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and costs $55.

Jessica Whitt, assistant director for fitness services and education at UREC, said they reorganize one of the classrooms to mimic a spa-like atmosphere. The event will start with students and their moms getting their pictures taken together.

“It’s been one of our most popular events,” Whitt said.

Kelsie Hogberg, a senior studying microbiology and a membership attendant at UREC, scheduled most of the appointments for the event. Of the different parts of the event, she said moms look forward most to the neck and shoulder massage.

After the photos, student and moms will receive a 5-10 minute foot bath, and then go to a set of two massage chairs where massage therapists will ease tension out of their necks and shoulders via massage, Whitt said. Then attendees are welcome to tea, coffee, meat and cheese platters, and an extensive dessert menu unique to this year’s Tea and Spa event, she said.

 “I’m really excited this year, we also have a menu called the Sweet Tour of the Palouse,” Whitt said.

Leigha Krick, graduate assistant for Group Fitness, helped coordinate the event. She said the dessert menu will include mini cupcakes, crimson and grey cake pops, cheesecake, a variety of cookies, gluten-free options and more.

“We’re going to feature deserts from some local places like Sweet Mutiny, Bloom Café in Moscow, and the Co-op in Moscow,” she said

The event almost didn’t happen last year because the massage program isn’t in place anymore, but the outcry from upset Cougs and moms brought it back, she said. The event has been put on annually since 2003 because is always very high, Whitt said.

“Even the people that are staff members that work the event love it. They have a great time,” Whitt said.

The event is booked full and UREC started a waitlist about two weeks ago for moms still interested, Hogberg said. She said the event will be a lot of fun noted Cougs and their moms should call far in advance for future Mom’s Weekends.