Princeton weekend and Graduation

This past weekend and week was filled with Princeton festivities. It was kicked off with Reunions. Princeton sets up all of these big fences all over campus so that people can drink alcohol in each reunion area. My favorite tent was the P'rate Pirate tent, for the 20 year reunion, aka Class of 1985. Thanks for the frozen mango daiquiris! The 40th Reunion tent is always a blast because of the Beatles cover band they get for that class.

It was an exhausting week. We kicked off Scott's graduation with dinner that we made for his parents. We started the Coq au Vin a few days earlier. It was declicious, but I'd add more side dishes next time. Everyone also enjoyed the Mixed Green Salad with strawberry dressing that we had. Monday brought the Dean's Brunch and the Hooding Ceremony. The Hooding occurs in McCarter, and everyone is strictly limited to 3 tickets each. During the Hooding, Chopper arrived early, and we were able to sneak him. The PhD hooding occurs last, so there was plenty of time for him to see Scott get hooded. Scott was also almost the last person to be hooding. Hooray for Sang-il who represented PACM at the Hooding this year. For the post-hooding dinner, we all headed to Triumph in New Hope.

Tuesday, we had Commencement. Despite the earlier predictions of rain for the ceremonies, it was warm and sunny. The Salutatorian's address was in Latin. All the graduates were given the text with appropriate footnotes, so they could laugh and clap in the appropriate places, to make it appear to the audience that they knew Latin. Afterwards, we headed back to Lambertville where Scott's parents were staying at the Bridgestreet House Bed and Breakfast. We tried to do some antiquing, but Tuesday is the day that most of the stores are closed. I'd originally wanted to have a big BBQ/Graduation celebration thing, but decided that Sandrine's Brazilian BBQ on Saturday during Reunions was good enough. I was too tired to organize another big thing.

Wednesday, Scott met Suzanne for lunch and dropped off the wedding present that he had created. Who knew you could reflect Will to spell the word Katina? Scott and I headed back to Lambertville to catch the session at Mitchell's. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces. We've got to work really hard and practice to get ready for Irish Arts Week which is coming up in a month.