It’s funny how local customs come upon you. The Alberni District Secondary School’s graduation ceremonies, for example. We had our own person to cheer for, but the arrival scene was such a fun spectacle, I wish Rod and I had some more neices and nephews who are graduating. I’ve never seen anything like this before!

Here in Port, the kids don’t wear caps and gowns, and their “prom” is on graduation night, so everybody wears their “grad” outfits to the graduation. Arrival is just short of a red carpet, with all the families and friends standing outside the doors, and one by one, the fanciest trucks, cars, limos, whatever coming around the bend to drop off the graduates in the early evening sun. It was a delightful, funny, sweet spectacle.

All the girls and their pouffy dresses and salon hair…

The Red Truck

Kenny's neice in his T-bird (brother driving)

My favourite entrance was he moving truck. The truck drove up, the driver got out, set up the lift, and rolled up the door. Out came four graduates all dressed up, lowered to the ground by the lift!