PROM

Friday night was prom. Ariel looked beautiful. Her friend's mom made her dress for her. There were really no options at the mall of a "suitable" dress. It was fun going through the "prom experience" with her. It took me back many, many years to my own prom and the fun I had. I am very sentimental. The only thing that is similar now days to my prom days is that it is still called "prom" everything else has changed. Most kids don't actually go to the dance at all. Some don't even take the pictures at the school. They go in huge groups and do activities instead of going to the dance. First, they meet at someones house and all the parents show up and take hundreds of photos of them. There were 12 couples in Ariel's group and a huge party bus arrived and they all piled in. They went to a Japanese restaurant where the food is prepared in front of you. They were going to ride three roller coasters, which is one of Ariel's least favorite things to do. Prom day was an extremely windy day here in Vegas. Good news for Ariel, the roller coaster rides were closed down...bad news the wind made it a difficult hair night. My favorite pictures are the three of Ariel alone, texting, holding her hair out of her face, and showing me she was "done" with me taking pictures. Of course we all had to have a photo with the prom girl. Since they couldn't do their original plan, they went to the Bellagio conservatory, M&M world and game zone down on the strip instead. She had a lot of fun and woke me up at 1:30 a.m. to tell me all about it. She had to tell me again in the morning, since I had forgotten everything by then. I can't believe my little girl is about to graduate. I don't know how the time went by so fast, I wish I had more.