Daddo's graduation

Daddo finally caught up to us kids and got his BS from Eastern Washington University. We all went to the graduation ceremony on Saturday morning, man is Eastern washington a long drive! Even longer as this is the first time since I was in high school I think that we've all been in the car so long together :-) Had no idea it took 6 hours to get from one side of the state to the other. One of Dad's classmates, Terry, came to the ceremony as well. They took courses through extension in Vancouver and had never been on the campus before this weekend. It's a really pretty campus, but out in the middle of nowhere, reminded me why I chose to go to school in Seattle, I like me some civilization.

Unlike Tegan's graduation, it wasn't raining the whole time so we all got to stay pleasantly dry. The student body president's speech was also much better. It seemed so tiny to us since the UW is so big, but it was nice how people seemed to know each other and that they called out everyone's name and took time to pose them for pictures as they walked across the stage. For some number perspective, the UW has I think around 25,000 undergrads, about 35,000 with grad and med students. Eastern had about 2,500 or so undergrads, quite a difference.

After the ceremony they even had this $3.50 lunch thing for everyone, pretty nice, especially since I suspect Cheney is severely limited in fine dining establishments. We spent the afternoon in Spokane, walking around the river and parks surrounding it. The Spokane river is really pretty, and I had a Smoke Signals moment, as pictured below. Went to a few near empty brew pubs, couldn't figure out where the nightlife in Spokane is, maybe there isn't much of any. Then Sunday made the long drive back. Tomorrow, California!