Sunday, May 17: Becky's Graduation and Dinner with Greg and Sue

Good morning are you seekers of knowledge. Today is Becky's graduation. I got up feeling really weird

John Setting Up Party

and I found out why because I hadn't taken my meds all day yesterday. I guess because today was so fun that I didn't really

Kate and John

notice. Just what I was going to bed I realized that I left my leftover Asian curry soup in my bag and it

Driving to Graduation

leaked all of my bag. My chrome book I think is dead.

That's why bought a used one and not a new computer

Picking up Alex

in there. So I had cereal and eggs and it's now

Meeting for Graduation

8:13 AM and I need to quickly shave and get dressed. John's going to drop mom and myself off and then we're going to head to the ceremony.

We drove up and we found a parking garage right near the graduation

Becky at Her Graduation

ceremony. This was after we went to Stephanie's house and picked up Alex. We then running to Hannah

Becky in the Middle

and the others got our tickets for the ceremony. We walked in and we saw Greek Amphitheater it is a beautiful structure.

Family

and they have real concerts like Willie Nelson, Culture Club Jackson Browne and

Great Speaker from Afghanistan

Daryl Hall and John Oates. It has cement seating and it was built about 1903. It's approximate three

Dave and John

hour ceremony so I decided to get a refreshment and catch up on my blog away from the family. I don't

Chilly

want to be rude. It is a chilly 54° and overcast right now at the ceremony. There are couple of

The Greek Amphitheater

speeches that went on during the ceremony. The first black woman from Afghanistan was very

A Cute Song

moving and powerful. She really got the audience interested. The next one was absolutely graduation

Trying to Stay Warm

boring. It was some kind of awful. First you took too long and then she rambled on about things that

Becky Receiving Diploma

were little bit too politically correct leaving for Berkeley in my opinion. It wasn't a total loss she had the

Party Time

audience singing a song. it was so late but I found it pretty amusing and so did the family. We all gave out a big Hoot & holler when Becky's

Having Lunch

name was called by the dean. I got a couple really good pictures

John's Friend Rose

of her when I step down and got closer. When the ceremony and we got up pretty quickly and came

Eating Cake

back to John's place on Ashby Avenue. Everybody showed up around 12 12:30 PM and it's a very lighthearted

Becky and Mimi

affair. With plenty of food and drinks for everyone in attendance. John did a really good job of organizing the party.

Becky's Friends

I had to periodically charge my phone during the whole thing. I'm really glad I had my portable charger

Winding Down

and my charging cord with me. Anyhow, afterwords when everyone left, I decided to take a walk to the souvenir

Dave @ Telegraph St

store on telegraph Avenue & Durant. I got a sweatshirt that was half off and a polo shirt. I thought about

Store

going to a Best Buy or stopping and having coffee but I decided against both. I decided that I needed a

good old-fashioned power nap before  Sue LaBlanc picks me up to meet Greg, & Sue for dinner. Well I got

Sue

my power nap and that was really good. I then got picked up by Sue and her husband and her

Going to Greg's Place

five-year-old child. They drove me to Greg's place. Well located right at the Berkeley campus in an

Greg

area of it by the University and how's the professors. Several famous people in the area one of them is Robert Reich

Dinner!

. Greg and his girlfriend Emily had some pork and potatoes. I managed to cook pork it with you seeing

Nice Dinner

very tasty. Not much but some is how to cook that shows. A nice dinner and conversation. I meant

Sue and Emily

husband was very cool dude. The retirement from France and like a really nice guy and their kid

View From Greg's Place

down five and seemingly well-adjusted kid. It was a very nice time hope to get to see them more often.

Emily

Greg then drove me back unfortunately nobody was awake for Greg. The 10:30 PM Pacific daylight Time.

Greg's Living Room

It was a pretty good night. The day was fun and I got this Chromebook to work just one more day so I can make this blog post pretty. Tomorrow, I hope to drive to Mount Tam and see LARGE trees.