more weekend

On the way back from Wicked, we stopped to eat, then just missed a train once again. Once again, just by minutes. Oh, my timing. But we did get the next train, after sitting in Grand Central for a few minutes relaxing after our 7 block trek from the theater (crowded, broken New York sidewalks and subways are not especially wheelchair friendly).

The train rides were uneventful and long. It was nice to have time to just sit and chat, catching up on the past year. None of the grandparents had seen Juma for almost a full year, so they had lots of fun playing with him, asking him questions, and playing tickle monster, hugging monster, and kissing monster. What more could a six-year-old ask for than four grandparents drowning him with attention, while riding on a train?




Sunday everyone met us at our house once again, and Juma and I walked them to church a few blocks away. As I haven't attended LDS church services is a few years, I didn't know that the time had changed; I got them there a half an hour late. Woops. Afterward, we had planned on a walk over to the art museum, but got a little tired and lazy and ended up hanging out at our apartment talking and playing a rousing game of Apples to Apples (Vicki wailed on all of us).

In the afternoon, we took another campus tour, this time with everyone, and saw extra things this time: Skull & Bones (the secret society several US presidents belonged to) as well as other secret societies, the law school, the gymnasium that looks like Notre Dame, and got thoroughly wiped out. We had bought items for a lovely picnic, but just as we got home from the tour the rained started, so we had a lovely picnic at the dining table inside.

Monday was graduation. Here are videos of me walking at two different ceremonies, one for my master of arts and one for my master of public health.




And of course we can't forget that Hillary Rodham Clinton got an honorary degree.