Graduation and Gifts

This past weekend we got the chance to go see my little sister officially graduate.  It was fairly typical pomp and circumstance, although the school president was exceptionally long winded and boring.  The commencement speaker, Pete Correll was pretty funny.  He spent his first 5 minutes talking about how he was so proud that the class of 2010 helped bring UGA back to its rightful place atop the rankings, and that while he was there every year they were number 1 so it was good to see them back as the #1 Party School.  He admired the sacrifices, long nights etc. that it took to get this prestigious ranking back.  It was very humorous.

After the ceremony, some pictures, which again I don't seem to have at this time, we went to take some more pictures.  And then off to the important part, LUNCH!  We went and had yummy Peruvian food.  I, oh course, had my favorite, Aji de gallina, most of the rest of the crew had lomo saltado, and for some weird reason Lu ordered a chicken quesadilla which isn't Peruvian at all.  But oh well it was yummy.

A few more photos and then we parted ways.  Lu and I were off to the lake house.  Her whole family was coming down cause Saturday was the extended family Christmas party.  We were the first ones there, and we tried to stay up till they got there but we ended up going to sleep and seeing everyone in the morning.  after a very relaxing day spent doing mostly nothing, off we went to the party.  Dinner was yummy as usual, and as tradition dictates we had Christmas lasagna, and spaghetti, (no they aren't italian but everyone was tired of having ham and turkey at thanksgiving and then again a few weeks later)  the lasagna was great, we took some home (we then forgot to actually bring it back to ATL with us...  whaa whaaaaa)

After dinner and desserts, we exchanged gifts, you know the game where everyone brings a gift and then in order you can unwrap one or steal someone's...  well I chose to unwrap one, got some 180's ear muffs and no one else stole them so I was happy.  Lu got a snowman salt and pepper shaker set.  Not a whole lot of thievery happened but when it did it was definitely amusing to see the reactions.  Lots of fun.

Had a great weekend.  and when we get the pictures off the camera I will try and post some.

Looking forward to a great christmas holiday and seeing both families.