Good-Bye to College Park School

It was a very festive atmosphere with carnival-type games and a trio of guys singing under a tent and the smell of a barbecue going. The fire-truck was out..in fact it very much resembled the good ol' College Park barbecues we used to have in early Septembers when it is still summer warm. Darcy had spikes to drop off to Margot since he so kindly offered to pick them up from Annacis Island and so we were in the neighbourhood. Karen had also called to make sure that we would stop by so we thought we would have one more visit to the school just so we can report to the girls that we did.
Walking down that path through the playground and to find Mrs. Bishop right there in the line-up to get a balloon hat was very heart-warming. We really didn't recognize as many faces...and so we did feel a little out of place. It was nice to see all the photo displays and the hallways were very familiar and nothing has changed since Caiti's first day of kindergarten 13 or so years ago. Of course, Mrs. Santone (we talked about this at Dogwood already this week), Mr. Seath, Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. Powell. I would have liked to have seen Mr. Boss and Mr. Cass and Ms. Pepper...and oh my goodness if Ms. Creelman had shown up from out of the blue.
The organizers did a very good job...and it was a good way to celebrate the closure. The balloon-release was very exciting and hopefully some media coverage will follow.
I called Kari as I was looking out for her and was worried that she had forgotten or something as we had initially made plans for her to pick me up and go there instead of going to Curves. She came and had a little chance to visit with a few people. I won an umbrella in the draw...
after we were invited for some drinks over at Karen's and Steve's for a little while just to catch up on the Wings year-end show and the coaching changes for Jill etc...Enza came by for a little while to fill us in on the PMA soap opera drama...and that was pretty much the evening!!!