high school graduations

So, I set an alarm for 2pm, I didn't actually get outta bed til about 4:45pm when Vx called me, he wanted to leave our place by 6 to get to his nephew's graduation, so I rushed around to eat a granola bar, shower, tried to squeeze into the outfit I wore to Vx's basic graduation (skirt didn't fit, but the top did), threw some khaki's on, wore contacts (don't wear them very often), he showered, threw his class a's on and we hit the road. On our way there I put some makeup on. I worried Vx would be out of place or overdressed, but there were 2 other's there in acu's and I lost count after about 7 people thanked him. Probably the same thing the other two dealt with. In their typical fashion, my mil and osil (older sis in law) were late, so we couldn't get seats at all, but we were able to stand together. At my graduation, there were 57 of us, this one definitely had more, we walked in one at a time, while two lines walked in from one side, two lines from the other side. We did a picture presentation, gave flowers out to people, our choir performed a song (our band director and the choir director were out of town at their daughter's college graduation when ours was happening so I didn't get to play at mine), their choir did the national anthem and a song while their band played before the ceremony, we had 3 or 4 speeches, they had 1, it took maybe 10 minutes to get our diplomas, we stepped outside about 30 minutes in after the nephew got his, we had ours in the school gym, they rented a near by event center for theirs and both lasted for about the same amount of time (maybe theirs was a little shorter). I know many schools rent the event center I work at for their proms and graduations, but man, I thought those schools had it better off, more students and possible friendships, more choices in classes, living closer to a big city, I guess the downfall of those places is the long graduation ceremonies. We did go to "dinner" afterwards, I'll eat the leftovers later. It had been a long time since I had Chili's, I usually order the chicken crispers, I think they use the same batter on the chicken that is used on funnel cakes, taste really good.