Katrina's Homecoming - 2007

Well, it was time once again for Katrina's Homecoming Dance at her school. Since she is no longer involved with John from last year, she and her friend Melissa, decided to team up and go together to the dance.

Here we are, after I had to deal with altering Katrina's dress for a better fit, adding a hook-fastener (and an hour before we had to leave, performing an emergency rip repair) on Melissa's dress, we were finally ready to go. Well, kinda. Melissa is on the phone because she just discovered she needs her school identification card to get into the dance and she didn't have it. We had to make quick arrangements to meet up with her parents to get it before heading downtown.

We paused for a moment for a pose in the lobby of the hotel, then we had a nervous moment when Melissa realized she left her ID in the car (that the valet just away drove in). No problem though, Katrina checked and at this time, they weren't checking ID's if they recognized you. Since both girls do computer tech support for the school for one class every day, they had no problems being recognized as the girls that help save the teachers from certain doom when their computers go nuts.

Meanwhile, I waited outside the ballroom area, writing a portion of a book that I had volunteered to work on. I had four hours of spare time, so this was a good time to pound away on the PDA.

The girls took cameras inside and it looks like they had some fun.

The dance wound down at midnight, but the girls decided to call it quits by 11:30. We finished up the evening by looking for some ice cream. Unfortunately, there wasn't an ice cream shop open at this hour, so we stopped by Starbucks coffee for some chocolate frappacinos. That filled the bill. You can see the girls were worn out and ready to unwind.

So, a good time was had by all, in spite of the flurry of mini-emergencies that occurred.

Whew! Katrina is growing up so fast!