Saturday afternoon greetings! It's been a festive, fun-filled couple of days and I'm exhausted. I was up yesterday shortly after 6am to help Mary Linda with her pre-commencement brunch. She made 3 varieties of quiche and I made a punch bowl full of mimosas. We sent Richard to Central Pastry for, well, pastries. There were 10 of us here for brunch, after which we caravanned to Oxford for the 3pm graduation ceremony. When it was still going on at 4:30, she texted Rob, "Get me out of here!" It finally ended about 5 and it took an hour to get out of the parking lot.
From there, the caravan crossed Butler County to Brio Tuscan Grille, where Mary Linda's parents hosted dinner for the same 10 who'd brunched together. We got home about 10pm and were outta here 12 hours later for a late morning showing of ROGUE ONE. The party had shrunk by 2 today with the departure of one set of grandparents, so it only required 2 cars in the caravan to and from the theater. We all regrouped here for a casual lunch of leftovers and saw her parents and maternal grandmother off to Michigan and her sister off to Cleveland.
