I am so proud of our little girl. Noelle graduated on Saturday from Rice University. Here are some pictures plucked from 200 or so that I shot on my trusty Nikon-D70.
No, these people are not really reading their programs. They are using them as sun visors. There must be many cases of sunblindness and sunburn after three hours of being directly irradiated while 900 names were read for graduation. Everyone stuck around, although many moved to the shade after their students names were called.
This is Noelle leaving the ceremony through the Rice University Sally Port. All freshmen enter the Sally Port on the first day of school and are told not to walk through it again until graduation. Noelle didn't ever use it again until Saturday when the students are told to leave the campus and go into the world. Bad luck will befall a student who uses the Sally Port before graduation day. Noelle says it is true.
Mom gets the first hug. Bobbi and I always told the kids that there was no questions they would go to get college degrees. We started that in first grade with Justin back in 1987 and we never stopped doing it until yesterday when Noelle finished. 
We also decided that we would somehow pay for the best schools they could get into, but that Graduate school would have to be on their nickel! Cornell University and Rice University were good choices for them.
You will remember, once again, the picture from Thursday's posting that shows Noelle at the age of twelve in a little red dress. She wore that same little dress under her graduation garments. I just find that sublime. 
Now, Noelle goes to Spain for five weeks before heading back to Albuquerque in July for a week and then she moves to Chandler, Arizona to start her new job with Intel. This is Noelle with her best friend Ashley. Ashely will be living only three blocks away in Arizona when she starts her new job in a few weeks.
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