pomp and circumstance

Well, it is official, and one of the two finest sons in the world has now graduated from high school.

Yesterday was a nice day. My two older sisters came and spent the day with us. We all went out to breakfast at the good diner up the road, then visited for awhile, then went to Bill's graduation. Afterwards, we all went to Bill's favorite Mexican restaurant in Ann Arbor to eat dinner. We then went to the gourmet grocery stores to buy cheese, and went to one of the big book stores, and I bought Bill a big pile of architectural themed coffee table books.

I think Bill had a good day, and that is all that matters!!!

We looked at the folder of paperwork that his degree came in, and it turns out that one of the scholarships he was awarded on Thursday night was for $5000, which we had not known (they had announced he had gotten it, but not the amount). We just about fainted!!!  We will definitely be able to pay for the first year of university now without any problems.

I have spent the morning making reservations and buying tickets and putting vacation holds on our newspapers. I got tickets to the Blue Man Group  for while we are in Chicago (the kids wanted to go to that again); tickets to two Tigers games in Detroit, and I made camp ground reservations for a state park near Muncie for Labor Day weekend, so we can go camping and have a nice visit with Bill at the same time. I have also been doing lots of laundry, so we will have clean clothes for our trip, and tomorrow I will pay the bills and request our mail be held while we are gone.

Time to get ready to go to work now - yuck!!!!!

But we had an absolutely wonderful weekend, and I only have to work four days, have one day off to pack and do any last minute things, and then we will be on our vacation! the kids should have a wonderful time - two baseball games, King Tut, water parks, and Blue Man!