Graduation Day

Today was Hubby’s graduation day!  When I met him he was already working on his Bachelor’s degree through the University of Leicester in England, sort of like a correspondence course.  Although he only actually stepped foot on campus for one three-day trip, he was a real full time student in every other sense of the word and worked extremely hard, all while working full time at a job that had lots of mandatory overtime.  And graduated WITH HONORS!  I am very proud :)

In front of the School of Management building, which was his school.

Hubby’s parents flew all the way from California to Dublin to come celebrate with us.  They didn’t have long to recover from that long trip before we put them on the plane again and flew them over to England.  Well, it was really bus to airport, flight, train to The Tube, then The Tube to the next train, then train to Leicester (sounds like Lester) where his school is.  We had to get up early to leave plenty of time to get to the airport, so by the time we did bus-plane-train-tube-train, we were already pooped.   Thankfully the ceremony was blissfully short, at least by graduation ceremony standards, and lasted just over an hour.  And now it is official!

Isn't the hall impressive! They actually played that organ for us in the opening of the ceremony.

Since his parents came all this way, we decided to have some fun with them while they are here.  We’ll spend a couple of days in London, then off to Italy for 6 days!!!!!!!  Lots more pics to come.