Christopher graduated from high school tonight, June 10th 2008.
It was held at the football stadium at Arlington High School, and thankfully the rains ceased for a few hours for the event to pass. Of course as soon as it concluded, the drizzle started again. We’re all very happy.
We started the evening with a dinner at La Hacienda. Then we dropped Chris off at the school as he had to be there an hour before.
Above: Chris puts on the gown.
Above: Sue watches as the cap goes on.
The actual ceremony took place with a stadium full of parents and relatives of all the students. The parking lot was overflowed and we ended up far away. We did a poor job of logistics and ended up pretty far from Chris’ spot in the ceremony. I brought my telephoto lens and managed to pick him out of the crowd:
Above: Chris enters the stadium.
Above: Where’s Waldo?
Above: Chris hands his name to the reader.
…and walks towards the stage.
Of course my photos of him on the stage are blurry and somebody walked right in front of me right about that time as well(!)
Oh well.
There was music and of course boring speeches… it wrapped up with some youthful exuberance:
We finally found each other down on the field after it was all over and got a group shot:
One down, one to go!
what no smile again!!! 🙂
congratulations to Chris and the proud parents!
Jerome
The boy *really* has his generation’s notion of “smile= BAAAD!”
Oh well, I’m thrilled, so please extend my congrats to the lad!
And SMILE, goddamit, Chris! Either that, or I’ll press a ham on your dorm window!!!
:):)
Oh Christopher smiles a LOT… just not when I point a camera at his face! 😉
Thanks guys.
Congrats! Chris sure got a growth spurt since I’ve last seen him. 🙂
Thanks Damian, good to hear from you! Yes, Chris has grown a lot. He’s well over six feet now, on track perhaps to become “The tallest Goolsbee, ever.” We’ll see though as Nick is 2″ over where Chris was at 14.