Today, we headed down to Seal Beach for the day. Our 12-year-old nephew, Patrick, was in town from Mississippi and two other nephews were graduating from high school. (Incidentally, we also had two OTHER nephews graduating in their respective location - David in Virginia, and John in South Lake Tahoe. We hung out with Patrick during the afternoon. He and Kirk even went out to the field in back of Kelley's house and flew a kite for a while. When Kelley returned from her golf tournament, the adults, Patrick and our littlest nephews, Bradley and Jeffrey, went over to the high school to check out the decorations for Grad Night - an all-night, lock-in party for the graduating seniors. The school gym is completely decorated by the parents. It was pretty fancy and way cool.

Then it was time for graduation. We headed over to the stadium where the ceremonies were held. Some of the speeches were quite good (and funny). We were able to spot Corey and Scott as they came into the stadium. After the ceremonies were officially over, the field was mayhem! At one point, we lost Patrick and then several of us spent the next 15 minutes looking for him.

Back in the car, both Bradley and Jeffrey insisted on trying on the graduation hat that one of the boys had left us with. We drove over to Scott's mom's house for a barbeque. The food was wonderful. Unfortunately, Scott wasn't able to stay for long since he had to be back at the gym before 8PM or he would get locked out and miss Grad Night.

Patrick came home with us. Tomorrow will be really busy since we are taking him to Universal. All in all, it was a wonderful day!

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