Paul graduated!!!!! Last Saturday, Paul received his diploma for a bachelors in history and another one for his bachelors in political science. I am so so proud of him! The weekend was pretty stressful for me but I knew what it was going to be and at least the stress wasn't a shock. On Thursday, Paul's parents drove up from Charlotte where they had spent the night after their plane ride the night before. Before they got here, we went with Pearl and Joe to the "luau" for seniors. There were free hotdogs and popsicles. After a while Pearl decided she was done and we almost left with her but we knew the band Mae was supposed to perform and we love them so we stuck it out. Before we left, I covered myself in spf 70 sunscreen but I still burned really badly. A few days later, I tried spf 70 again and more burning, guess for a while I'm going to have to step up the spf. The concert was fantastic! There were only about 25 people there but it was outside and the band was fun and clean and it was just a good time. It was really fun hanging out with them while they were here. On Friday night, we went to Paul's convocation. They had it in the football stadium and it was pretty much packed. The speaker was so surprising but awesome! He was a retired air force general and talked for like thirty minutes on the truth about socialism and being proud to be an American. It was really interesting to watch the professors squirm in their seats.
After the convocation, we met up with Paul's cousin Erek's wife Mirelle and kids, Neil (9), Nathanael (8), Helene (7), Nelson (4), and Newel (1) at out house. We made sure they were all comfortable, decided the schedule for the next day and went to the Rose's house. They were so kind to us and let us sleep in their guest room because there was not enough room at the Platz Inn.
Saturday morning, I made baked french toast and we went to Paul's ceremony and took lots of pictures. By saturday afternoon, after the Looslis left we were all so exhausted. Paul and I hadn't slept in our own beds or for a full night in over a week because of finals and sutff. We went to Pearl's graduation bbq for a little bit and then came home and just didn't move for a few hours.
I'm tired of writing, we'll get to the rest of the visit later.
