Hope this beautiful spring/summer weather is treating you well! It sure treated me well last Friday when I graduated from college! It was indeed a beautiful day. In fact, the weekend in general was fabulous. The rents and I drove up to Chicago while Jared & Gina flew in on Thursday evening in order to make it to my Honors Convocation that night. Now that I think of it, the honors ceremony was a bit more fun, in my opinion, than graduation. a) I didn't have to wear that awkward, yet infamous hat and b) that was the first time I walked across that stage and thus more exciting than the second time less than twenty-four hours later. Anyways, after the honors thing, we all went out for a bite to eat at a place called Bat 17 in Evanston with wonderful sliders and sandwiches. Fun times... although we were out a little too late considering what time we all had to get up the next morning for my 10am graduation (you know the drill... be there by 9am but with traffic leave at 8am...)
But it was a beautiful day, making graduation all the more enjoyable. Like I said, the ceremony was a little anti-climatic but the reception by the lake was quite nice. (They provided Diet Coke... a much needed beverage at that point in the game.) Followed by a mini-tour of campus, considering there are seemingly dozens of new buildings popping up all over Loyola's compact campus. Anywhoo, about an hour later, Gina and I's feet were screaming for mercy and a break from our heals so we settled in for a nice lunch on a patio somewhere in Evanston. After afternoon naps and a change into more comfortable clothes, we headed out to one of my favorite places to eat in Chicago - Cafe Ba Ba Reeba, a Spanish tapas bar in Old Town. So much fun and indeed a celebration!!!
And the crazy graduation weekend did not stop there... On Saturday we got up early and headed to Anne Sather's, in Andersonville, a Swedish bakery with cinnamon rolls that are out-of-this-world. (You may think our weekend revolved around eating... and it kinda did, but to my defense, I was simply making sure my family was able to experience Chicago in all her glory... Chicago is the food capital of the United States you know.) Afterwards, we thought we would meander through the Shedd Aquarium since it was rainy and overcast. To our surprise, before we could do any such thing, we had to stand in line for two hours to even get in! (I should have known, the Shedd is one of the coolest places to go.) However, the Jelly Exhibit made it all worth it :)
In the end, it was a fantastic weekend! Being with family, reconnecting with friends I hadn't seen since last spring before I left for Chile, good eats along with sawfish, stingrays, and penguins. Oh yeah, and there was that thing we call graduating from COLLEGE!!! Still hasn't phased me... I figured it probably won't for at least a few years, or until I'm thirty, the age when I am officially an "adult" and have to think about "marriage and all that stuff," says the twelve-year-old I nannied for last week. My thoughts: Thank goodness I still have eight more years until that point!!! In the meantime, I feel like I am in that awkward "pre-teen" stage, where you don't want to consider yourself a "kid" but you aren't quite a "teen." For me, I'm not a college student anymore but not quite an adult yet either... Until then, in the words of some famous jazz/R&B singer, let the good times roll :)
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