This weekend Sven participated
in his PhD graduation at UCLA. We
left late Wednesday afternoon and drove down to Santa Barbara and stayed with
Gigi and Papi. We got up Thursday
morning to drive down to LA for the hooding ceremony. Gigi came along to babysit Serevina during the ceremony,
which was very nice, because I don’t think she would have survived 10 minutes
in there! Mémé, Pépé, Jacaranda,
and Ansley met us at UCLA and we enjoyed the ceremony. The most amusing part was the organ player;
he played a huge range of stuff from Lady Gaga to the Eagles.
After
the ceremony we headed to Vincenzo’s, our favorite restaurant from when we
lived in Santa Monica, Vincenzo remembered us and we had a wonderful time! Once we had Prosecco at the table we
had Serevina announce our big news with her Big Sister t-shirt. Needless to say we surprised everyone!
Friday
we enjoyed hanging around Santa Monica and then Saturday was the engineering
graduation ceremony. It was
undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students. The PhD students were first so we listened to the speaker,
watched Sven walk and get hooded again, and then Sven snuck out across the
field and we headed to lunch! Then
it was back to Santa Barbara for dinner at Gigi and Papi’s.
Sunday
morning Sven, Papi, Mémé, and Pépé went for a bike ride while Gigi, Serevina,
and I went for a walk with Beau.
Then we went to Samarkand to have lunch with Mum-Mum and Pop-Pop. Then it was time for the long drive
home.
It
was wonderful to hang out with family and to see Sven graduate!
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