The 22nd was Evangeline's graduation
Jun. 22nd, 2011 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We'd planned to reuse Ana's cap and gown for it (because $25 was bad enough the first time!) but they school bought us a new one anyway. Immediately after graduation we headed to the office and returned it so next year somebody else can have it. "Oh, but when she's older she'll look for it!" I hope not. Can't she be sentimental in her own head? We're all of us cluttered enough without storing outfits from kindergarten graduation.
The graduation went from 10:30 to noon, but it would've been half an hour shorter if we hadn't had to listen to a long speech first about how awesome the school is. *eyeroll* The principal is addicted to this sort of speech. The graduation would've STARTED a quarter hour sooner if she'd cut the obligatory speech from the pre-k graduation as well. Jenn and I sat through the whole thing and snarked. "Do you know why people choose this school?" "Because they want to be told how awesome it is at every single school event?" (The real answer, in this neighborhood anyway, is actually "because it's not PS 16". But that's not the answer the principal gave.)
Afterwards we went home, made lunch (pasta puttanesca, which has rapidly become one of my faaaaaavorite pasta dishes... pity the nieces don't like it that much, but they'll eat it), and went to the beach, where we were just about the only ones there due to the cold, foggy weather. Seriously, we could barely see the bridge. Given that the beach is basically *at* the bridge, this is very foggy.
The graduation went from 10:30 to noon, but it would've been half an hour shorter if we hadn't had to listen to a long speech first about how awesome the school is. *eyeroll* The principal is addicted to this sort of speech. The graduation would've STARTED a quarter hour sooner if she'd cut the obligatory speech from the pre-k graduation as well. Jenn and I sat through the whole thing and snarked. "Do you know why people choose this school?" "Because they want to be told how awesome it is at every single school event?" (The real answer, in this neighborhood anyway, is actually "because it's not PS 16". But that's not the answer the principal gave.)
Afterwards we went home, made lunch (pasta puttanesca, which has rapidly become one of my faaaaaavorite pasta dishes... pity the nieces don't like it that much, but they'll eat it), and went to the beach, where we were just about the only ones there due to the cold, foggy weather. Seriously, we could barely see the bridge. Given that the beach is basically *at* the bridge, this is very foggy.
