Graduation and Hiking!

Anyway, after driving to Manhattan and spending the night and getting Joanna and Eric and driving home, it was time for a graduation!

We look cute?

YES! Our disguises work!

Oh hey! A graduate!

He is up there. Promise.

WHOOO! GO CONNOR!

With Mom & Aunt Deb

Oh, and he picked up some extra velvet cord things for honors stuff or whatever, because my little brother is JUST THAT BRILLIANT!

After the ceremony, we went home and had a party with LOTS of food and LOTS of fun and pretty much NO pictures! But I do have some better pics of the graduation. I'll post those sometime!
Food highlights: potato salad, rice salad, Dad's burgers & hot dogs, baked beans that didn't burn, truffle cheese, three other cheeses, chips, Kahlua cake, and I AM GETTING FAT JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS.

(Con, I am SO PROUD of you! Congratulations on not only completing high school (even though I would've disowned you if you hadn't managed that), but on also managing to kick some serious ass and win some stuff! You are amazing, and you're going to do awesome things with your life! I love you!)


The next day, I headed back to Nebraska. Along the way, I had to drop of Eric and Joanna at various Kansas locations. And we had to stop at Trader Joe's. And Sonic.

And then we saw a sign for wetlands!

WETLANDS!

In KANSAS!

So we stopped to hike that shit.

A silo with lots of snake holes!

A map! So we don't get lost in the wilderness!

WETLANDS! Home of the chiggers.

We're just on a boardwalk. In KANSAS.

Sorry I missed your call. We were in the wetlands. In KANSAS.

Kansas.

That's pretty neat.

And then I dropped them off and was bitten by a cat and got caught in a giant scary lightning storm!

And then I was back in Nebraska.

The end!

PS - Joanna took a lot of these pictures. Thanks, Jo!

PPS - I didn't lose the foot.

Eew.

PPPS - Either I am allergic to wetlands, or I am the tastiest morsel of human chiggers have ever seen. Or maybe I am allergic to chiggers? Either way, this is an awkwardly itchy situation. I look like I have a pox.

PPPPS - Worth it.