Day Three: Graduation Day
Number of Photos Taken: 205
Quote of the Day:
"You were the one who said you wanted a boy!" - Mom, to Dad, after watching Charlie leap/hop/dance across the hotel room while in his shirt, tie, & plaid shorts...(Dad's response: "I don't think I actually ever said that" :)
if you would like to SEE the little dance, you should be able to find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5Q_W7cvRw

Breakfast...at Subway...in Walmart...with Orange Juice :)


Yay! It's graduation day! I get to look like a penguin!


Dad and Mom all dressed up....


Charlie knows how to get dressed up too...


As the family photographer, Linz feels the need to continue documenting her existence on this trip...


It...rained...but at least it wasn't freezing...


Charlie is...


Linz cap decided to ask random children if she could take their pictures...this guy was the cutest.


Jenn & Mr. Stonecypher


...& Mrs. Stonecypher...


Jenn and Jill (aka "Joe, the boyfriend" :)


GRADUATING!!!


There really is a better picture, but you will have to ask to see it later...when jenn isn't around to stop us :)


Linz & Jenn....


Jenn & the parents


Can't you see the family resemblance?


Yummy! Exciting!


..."but they're GOOD little monsters"...


mt. dew martinis...




The Graduate, Herself


Well.
I said that my pearl necklace and my black heels were travel essentials. I did NOT however include my black skirt in that list but it might have been a good idea...

But lets back up - to when my alarm went off and I rolled out of bed feeling not so stellar...
I NEVER feel stellar when my alarm goes off. especially when the rest of my family is still sleeping. But, I got up and showered myself and flooded the bathroom by leaving the shower curtain on the outside. And cleaned it up. Then there was a huge fiasco in which we tried to get a hold of my counsin's fiance who lives in TX and was maybe coming to the graduation, which took a long time and was not particularly successful. After being the cause of most of this havock, I left with Dad to pick up my cap and gown.

The two of us were for sure the only people there in jeans. That was just slightly awkward. We're american to the core :) Oh, and I met Jill.

When we got home, Me and Linz and Aaron went to Walmart in search of food. We bought Subway and a carton of orange juice and entertained the Subway employees for a while.

Then it happened. We returned to the hotel and I started to get my clothes out because we had an hour till showtime. I got my shirt, and other things... everything except my skirt... Eventually, I EMPTIED my magic green duffel bag and guess what? No eshort black peasant skirt of any kind. Nothing. I looked silently at my family for a second and wondered how exactly to break this to my mother. When I did, things kind of went crazy because, well, I loose things. But it wasn't lost. It really wasn't there. Which is CRAZY because I had it with all the rest of my clothes the night before when I packed. I'm very curious to go home and see where it landed, because it wasn't in the green duffle bag... In the end, I wore the dress Lindsey was going to wear (we share clothes) and she wore something else. Anything works with the pearls and black heels...Yay Linz, what a trooper!

Then I graduated. Yeah.

It was a very interesting ceremony. Very... baptist. Kind of like a gospel sing in parts. And then the Speaker was a guy from Liberty University and he grew up muslim and is a Christian. He was very good. Then there was a Doctor from South Korea who was HiLaRiOuS! Everyone else was from the deep south, I think. All in all it was quite the micro-culture experience.

Then we got to the main event - eating my first crawfish at the Cajun Feast reception. Those things are awesome!!!! They had a whole boat full!!! (literally) And the reception I thought we would leave early because we didn't know anyone? We closed it out, partying with our good friends the Stonecyphers.

Back at the hotel, we party on! Aaron pulled out a massive bag of quarters and started buying Mt. Dews for us. He and I slipped down stairs and on to the bar island, where I asked the bar tender if we could have a few martini glasses to drink our soda in. He had me repeat the question a few times. Then he said it was fine with him. The only problem was that Aaron was under 21 and so it was illegal for him to even be standing where he was... oops. So we took them down to another table and toasted to "the end":)

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and if after reading our blog last night, you wondered what would happen when charlie and linz realized that they both planned on occupying the same small important room...well...


haha...it didn't really happen like this...linz actually sat outside the bathroom (on the carpet :) while charlie sat inside and shared the light by leaving the door open a little...but we thought we'd pose for your entertainment...