The Graduate

Well all, I did it...I graduated today. My Husband, S, R, Dad and step-mom, Mom and step-dad, my very good friend Evan, sister-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law were all present.

It was a VERY long and VERY boring ceremony so thanks to everyone who showed up and hung out. It rained periodically through the proceedings and fortunately we did bring umbrellas for the kids and hubby. I did not have one however so the dean of my college took pity on all us idiots who did not bring anything to keep dry and gave us ponchos. The announcer guy was fantastic and only messed up a few names (out of 1800 not a bad record there!), he did sound like the next words out of his mouth after he said each persons name should have been, "...come on down... you're the next contestant on the Price is Right!" Afterwards we were supposed to go swimming at the house but the rain cancelled that, my sister-in-law treated everyone out to lunch because we were all starving and getting woozy. There was a grand total of 9 microbiology graduates out of the 1800 for that day (six in the spring and the rest in fall and summer semesters) the only major that had fewer graduates was physics who had 6 for the whole year. There were 3 days of graduations and we were the last.

All in all I was very happy with having chosen to cross the stage, got some really great pics which I may or may not put up...still deciding.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has helped me through this longest of my goals...lol. Thanks all and love to you

C