Hi everyone - back home again after a very very long but lovely day.  Our day started out in pea-soup fog so our 1 1/2 hr trip took over 2 1/2 hours.   Very nerve wracking to say the least until the fog finally burned off about 10 minutes from our final destination.  &quot;Our girls&quot; were very emotional which immediately got me very emotional and if you believe for one moment that Jim&#39;s eyes were tearing because of allergies you are crazy. (He doesn&#39;t have any allergies).  <br />
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The ceremony was very nice with all the speakers being brief until the Principal had his turn.  He went on a bit too long but then it was time for the diplomas.  In order to keep people in their seats and not have them running up to the stage, they had the area roped off and a professional photographer there to take a picture as each graduate got their diploma from the Principal.  While this was a very good idea in theory it really does not work when you have just shy of 400 graduates.  It took forever to go through the whole class but I must say the very last young man to graduate must have felt very special - he got a standing ovation after he got his diploma.  LOL  The whole ceremony took more than 3 hours - we are just thankful it was indoors and not out on the football field - we would have been dropping like flies from the heat.  Afterwards we all went out for a nice lunch and got home just a little while ago.  The girls really appreciated us being there - it was just Jim and I along with their Mom, their Brother and his girlfriend.  So they are now officially high school graduates and they also are now Officially going to cruise with us in August.  The cruise was dependant on their getting their diplomas (although there was never any doubt about that.) But the cruise was our graduation gift to them.    Cait finished on the honor roll and Heather finished on the Merit Roll, missing honors by 2 points.  <br />
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Once again, I will try to post a picture tomorrow once I have downloaded them but I am a bit of a computer nerd so I don&#39;t know if it will work.  In the meantime, getting up at 4:30 and the sheer emotions of the day have caught up to me so I&#39;m going to go sit on the recliner and probably fall asleep.