GRADUATION!

Proud dad enjoying this milestone in their lives.

Proud grandparents enjoying her happiness

Waiting on evefryone to get thru taking pictures so we all can go eat!

This whole week-end was an eye opening experience. Truthfully I'm worn out. Had to dress up for 3 days, or I should say GOT to do it. I ventured out in heels for Bacc on Saturday, thinking I wouldn't have to walk very far. Boy did I pay for that. The Bacc was downtown Nashville in a Catholic church. The church looks very old, but they have taken very good care of it. In fact it is in the vicinity of Vanderbuilt collage. I couldn't remember Dave and Trices Bacc and Dave said his class voted not to have one. But don't thing the Catholic kids have that much voting power.
Dave came in on time Saturday night, went by to eat and then on to watch Kate's dance class perform. They were invited to do one of their routines in theater that was honoring women and their work. Got home late from that. Kate wanted to go eat breakfast with all the family and her favorite place ... yes downtown Nashville. (That was where the theater was) We are getting to know Nashvillle pretty well. Then home, showers and get dress up (one more time) . The guys looked pretty sharp. The ceremony was really good. The speaker was the head master and he did a agreat job. Talked about accepting failure and learning from it, to keep trying. He is leaving the school for a position in Liverpool, England. I know they hate to lose him.
Then it was picture time (again) and off to go eat. There were 10 of us and we headed for .... you guessed it downtown Nashville to eat at a Cheesecake Factory. It was very good first time for us at one of those. Of course it is one of Kates favorite. By the way the size of her class was 163 and the whole shooting match to get them graduated took about 2 hours. Not bad at all, also it was held at the Grand Ole Opery.
Dave left today (Monday) at6:20, so we left the coach at 5. Dave and I both told John to get us up about quarter of 5 ..... just enough time to get eyes open and clothes on.
Well I know you all are about worn out reading this, but wanted to share our experiences with you. Oh yes, I wanted to mention it was so wonderful to hear God and Jesus talked about all 3 days of these ceremonies!
We leave tomorrow headed for Livingston,Tx.