Few days of build up

 This morning was the annual Award Ceremony at Principia, and Rhodri and I were really happy to be able to attend it.  Rhiannon earned two awards: Excellent Senior Project and recognition that she will graduate "With Honors", both of which are awesome achievements!! We are so proud.

After the awards ceremony, there was a Parents' Gratitude service which was very emotional.  I'm glad that we were able to attend this, however.  It was nice to meet some of the parents of Rhiannon's friends and celebrate all the achievements of this cohort of students.  After this service, we did some more white dress shopping but still didn't manage to find the right one.  We also did a bit of moving out. Here is her bedroom that she needed to move completely out of, and then she joined us at the hotel.

We found a nice place to have lunch in the grounds of a church on Clayton Road

And then we spent some time by the pool, just because we could!  It is a great pool, and the weather was lovely for spending a bit of time relaxing in it.

On Saturday morning we met Drew for breakfast at First Watch, and then we continued our quest for a white dress.

We did manage to find a lovely dress this afternoon, and then just as we thought we were all done... "I need new shoes, too".  Doh!  But that wasn't as painful of an experience, so we quickly found some decent shoes for the occasion and moved on with life, including a dinner reservation at Flemings near the hotel, which was great.  Tomorrow is the big day!