Sunday 8 May 2011

Graduation!!

Hello there blog followers!!  :)

I thought that I would put a little post in about graduation. It was KIND OF a big deal, haha.   The day before grad I had to move out of my apt. which was quite the ordeal.  I had been trying to pack up all my stuff for like 2 days prior and it was just taking so long.  And it did help that Mr. Corey Betts likes to pull Houdini and "moves" out without actually moving anything out haha.  So anyway, needless to say there was like so much stuffff!!  You would think that the three of us (Georgia, Corey and Myself) had lived there for 8 years not 8 months!!!  But like always, Mom came to rescue, and Dave, Georgia's Dad came a few days previous as well. Good ol' Dave might as well open his own moving company, he's helped moved every year!!  So I got all moved out of there, Mom went back to Pictou and stayed with Gram, Aunt Hazel and Aunt Bertha in a bed and breakfast.  Dad and Hope came shortly after and rescued me from my empty apt.! :)   We then went out of town to a house that Georgia's parents rented for the weekend and had a lovely supper with some family and friends.  It was really nice!  I stayed at the Biddys house (Biddys is the name that we gave our group of girls this year, and 6 of them lived in one house so we called it the Biddy Nest, or Biddy Base).  Had a great sleep over with my beautiful friend Kelly MacDonald, we stayed up kinda late chatting about... everything :).







So I had to be at the school at like 8:15am Sunday morning for graduation.  And in true Lyra style, I slept in on my graduation day.....  Dad showed up at the Biddy's at like 7:50 and I was still in bed!!  AHHH!!  But with of the help of my good friend and Biddy Kelly I got ready in record time!! BIDDY SALUT!!!

The ceremony was really nice, kinda long but great!!  It didn't feel real that I was actually graduating! The time really did FLY by!! I had quite the cheering squad who so graciously traveled to my graduation, my family really know how to make a girl feel special! :) My Mom, brother Jordan, his girlfriend Kate, Gram, Aunts Hazel and Bertha and my Dad and his wife Hope all came out for the event. After the ceremony we all went to Boston Pizza for lunch, yummy!  Afterwards, most of team Lyra left to go home, and I went back to the Biddys to rest and help some girlies get ready for the night.





For supper Dad, Hope I went to a lobster supper, it was so goooddd!   We met up with my 2 girl friends Crista and Lauren and their parents.  It was really good and really fun!  Following I needed to have a little nap before the rest of the night's events... which I knew would go on to the wee hours of the night. First was the Gala which ended up being really great!  All my friends and their families met up there and danced and celebrated together, I actually think the parents had more fun than the grads!! haha!  I will post some pics of that! haha!  The gala was over at 1:30am, Dad and Hope went back to their hotel at this point, but I was so proud of them for making it till the end, such troopers!! :)









The after party was at the SUB, the whole building was open with bands and music and tons of people.  I was soooo tired but also determined to make it till the end so that I could spend all the final moments with all of my friends that I would miss so much!!! :( :(   It turned out to be really great, more dancing and celebrating, final conversations about fun times in the past, and what the future would bring, followed by many tearful good-byes!  What a great 4 years, so many friends and memories that will last a lifetime!!






PS.  Corey also graduated that day, but he had to miss it because he is away in Alberta working! I missed him so much!!! So proud of him tho and wish we could have shared the day together!

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