We left our house Friday morning by 6:30am and drove and drove and drove. Traffic wasn't bad at all until we got to Marietta, GA where we had a slow down that didn't last too long. Then it flowed nicely again until we hit Nashville, TN at 3:30pm. Traffic was at a standstill for a while (apprently 3:30 on a Friday afternoon is rush hour traffic in Nashville!) and we finally made it out of that and made it to Clarksville 34 minutes later. We got checked into our hotel room and started getting settled in while my brother came by to greet us and make sure we had everything that we needed. My nieces were both in a performance at the Roxy Theater that night so they were already at the theater and couldn't come with my brother to greet us. Libby and I quickly got ready and drove over to the Roxy where my nieces had left two tickets at the window for us in some really great seats so that we could watch their performance. After the performance we got to finally hug them and start chatting and catching up and we all headed out to meet my brother, his wife, and his mother-in-law at the restaurant for dinner. After dinner everyone came by our hotel room and I had a little table made up decorated in yellow and green (Elizabeth's high school colors) and had some green and yellow different candies, paper goods, etc, and Libby and I gave Elizabeth her graduation cards and present since Saturday would be such a busy day.
Saturday morning at 2:30am Libby woke up sick. Her stomach was really hurting her and she finally ended up laying down on the floor because that was the only place she could be even remotely comfortable. By 6:00am it was obvious she wasn't going to start feeling better so we headed to Wal-Mart (which was nearby) to get her some medicine. I hated dragging her out of the room and through Walmart to get her medicine but I didn't have any other choice. We got her some medicine and less than five minutes later she threw it up. But she started feeling better almost immediately. I had her lay down on the bed to take it easy for a a little while (and to try and get some sleep since she didn't get much sleep the night before since she was up with an aching stomach) while I got ready for Elizabeth's graduation. After I got ready I went downstairs to get something that Libby could eat that would be soothing and I brought her up some biscuts and that did the trick. After I woke her up and she at the biscuts she felt golden and she got up and got ready for the graduation.
We went over to my brother's house so that we could all ride to graduation together (Elizabeth was already at graduation by this time since she had to get there early). We got to the ceremony and got our seats and then watched as our girl graduated from high school! It was a nice ceremony and Elizabeth (as the Student Government President) started off the ceremony by leading everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance. I was beaming with pride throughout the entire ceremony. My niece makes me one very proud aunt!! After the ceremony we found her outside in the sea of graduates for pictures and I followed her around like I was the papparazzi taking pictures of her with some of her friends.
We then left and went out for lunch to celebrate Elizabeth's day and after lunch Elizabeth (who was also up sick the night before) went home to nap and my brother and his mother-in-law went back home while my sister-in-law, my niece Della, Libby, and I all went shopping. Unfortunately, we never changed from our graduation clothes so we shopped for seven hours in heels! Whew, my feet were hurting by the end of the night! We went back to my brother's to get my car and my nieces followed Libby and I back to our hotel room and they spent the night with us.
Sunday morning we were up early and we all got ready and met up with the rest of the family for breakfast. Luckily the girls and I got to the restaurant when we did and got a table for us because by the time the rest of my family arrived there was a wait to get a table. After breakfast we took my younger niece Della to her school to meet up with a friend of hers because they were going to Nashville for the week for a school activity. After saying bye to Della Elizabeth, Libby and I went to the movies to see Kung Fu Panda 2 (where I promptly feel asleep for about 20 minutes!) and then we shopped at the mall for a bit, and then we went to a very nice nature trail and walked around for a while until it was time to head out to meet my sister-in-law at a restaurant for dinner. After dinner Elizabeth, Libby, Arlene and I went and shopped some more (Arlene is a shopper in case you haven't figured that out!) and at about 9:00pm Elizabeth, Libby, and I went back to our hotel room. Elizabeth stayed until about 11:30pm and then I went to bed (Libby had fallen asleep long before that). Libby and I got up Monday morning and had breakfast and checked out of our room by 7:30am and drove home.
The drive home Monday wasn't bad at all until we got south of Macon, GA where we hit a traffic jam that was just horrible. It took us one hour to go exactly 7 miles! Ugh. Once we finally got past that, though, it was smooth sailing the rest of the way home and we got home at 7:00pm.
Here is my wonderful niece Elizabeth at graduation:
Elizabeth and her best friend Emily:
And here are my two amazing nieces Elizabeth and Della:
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