Last month, my son graduated high school, this month, my nephew did. The ceremony was last Friday, and it was a good one. It took place at the same venue where my high school graduation was held 26 years ago! That doesn’t particularly matter I don’t think, but it is nice to know the facility is still being used for that by the area school districts.
There were several differences between my son’s graduation and my nephew’s. First, there was a difference of about 286 kids graduating. My son’s small Catholic high school had a graduating class of about 125, and my nephew’s public school graduated over 400 students!
It was a nice, but long ceremony. It ran nearly 30 minutes over its scheduled time, and we were all exhausted and ready to go home. But first – ice cream! We stopped in at a local DQ and between sitting and eating and standing outside to talk after the store closed and kicked us out, we didn’t make our way back home until nearly midnight, and didn’t arrive home until shortly before 1:30 a.m. Although the graduation should have been the highlight of the night, it was agreed by all that ice cream was the actual highlight.
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