What a day!! We were on the go non-stop from the moment we got up until the minute we went to bed. Today was Amy's graduation from Duke. Since Oprah was the speaker Margaux and Dawn wanted to get there early to secure good seats. Seeing as I am not a morning person I decided to go in the second wave. Dawn dropped Emily (5 yrs old) off at my house at 7am and she and Margaux headed off for Duke. My parents, Rob, Emily, and me made our way to Duke around 8am. And what an adventure that was!! Traffic was pretty bad and there were no cops to control traffic or the flow of cars. It took us FOREVER to get to a parking spot. We then had to race across campus to get to the stadium. My mom and I just got to our seats right as the ceremony was starting. The student speaker was interesting... he started off by saying he was a failure. To me that was obvious...he is a Dukie after all! He then went on to say something along the lines of how Duke students think they are better than everyone else... once again, I couldn't agree with him more. At that point my mom told me to keep my comments to myself (hee hee!). Oprah did a nice job with her speech. It was not your typical graduation talk. Instead she shared her favorites stories and pulled a life lesson from each.
After the main ceremony we raced across campus to get a few pictures in front of the cathedral. While we were there Amy announced that she had to be at the Nasher Art Museum in ten minutes for her college graduation (where her name is called and where she gets her diploma). This caused a panic as we were no where near our cars and the museum was not in walking distance. We split up into two groups, with Amy going with the group whose car was the closest. My group got the museum too late -- her name had already been called. Amy just barely got there in time though. She literally walked in right as they called her name!! There was a nice reception after that ceremony. By this point Emily was super bored! Amy graduating we a degree in Art History so we stopped by the museum to see Amy's art work. I was quite impressed with how talented she is!! From there we headed to downtown Durham for a late lunch. And oh what a journey this was!! Dawn was using the GPS on her iPhone to navigate there and my dad was following her in the pumpkin mobile! Well Amy was reading the GPS but she was reading it upside down!! We literally went ALL over and Dawn even drove down a one way street the wrong way! Lunch was good despite the menu being all in French (my dad was not too impressed -- he wanted a good old meal and none of this fancy "crap").
Once we got back to Raleigh we had a late Mother's Day celebration. It was nice being with my mom this year since we are normally apart! All in all it was a great day!!
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