Because
there were a few hours between Stan Hywet (see entry below) and my
half-marathon (entry below), Mer and I filled the hours up by going to
CVCA’s Homecoming banquet. This is the CVCA equivalent to public
schools’ Homecoming dances. We don’t have dances at CVCA (although we
have had one square dance, last spring), but we DO get to eat.

It
is good fun to see the students dress up, but Mer has instructed me
that if we ever have a kid, that we need to tell her that when you are
gussied up, you may want to lose the gum. 🙂  That aside, the kids
looked great, and they were well behaved. Most spent the pre-meal
wanderings visiting friends and taking pictures. Mer and I got to sit
at one of two teacher tables, and it is MUCH fun to be at the teacher
table. I think the kids have all of this pressure on them to behave for
their dates, to look good, to see all of their friends, etc. Too much
work for me! The teachers don’t worry about most of that stuff – we
want to eat and laugh. We did quite a lot of both.

The evening entertainment was the kids playing Family Feud based on questions asked at CVCA. It was much fun, and surprising how many had not seen Family Feud
before, and so only knew partly what they were doing.  [Mer’s
note:  Apparently, after we left, there actually WAS some dancing,
of the hokey group variety – word is that our principal does a
kick-butt chicken dance.]

Mer and I had to go a little early (because we had to be up at
5:00 the next morning), so we took off in the middle of CVCA Family
Feud (probably about 9:15 or so). A nice evening. So, all in all, this
last weekend was very busy, but it was also nice.