Dylan's Graduation (6/4 + 12/2025)

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 (continued)

Hyattsville bus stop shelter

Time for lunch in Hyattsville, before Dylan's high school graduation at the XFINITY Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD.

Still the soft opening time at Akira Ramen & Izakaya

Akira interior

Kent's Bento Box that started with a bowl of miso soup

Akira Ramen

Mochi ice cream came with the bill

Finally met up with Erich and family at the XFINITY Center,
where the screens assured us we were at the
Walter Johnson High School Commencement

Thank goodness for the "centerhung
experience with state-of-the-art videoboard
and high tech sound system" to better see
the over 700 graduates on the arena floor

Dylan is at the front of the line in the picture
for the procession of graduates (KSS)

Dylan is not as easy to see second from
top left (the tall guy between two girls
facing us) (EHS)

A sea of green, with the principal on the video screen

Dylan having his name announced

Dylan receiving the diploma facsimile

Dylan posing with the principal

Dylan leaving the stage

Graduation caps in the air (EHS)

We had a fantastic dinner at "Erich's restaurant",
Summer House Santa Monica in N Bethesda
(photo from A Touch of Teal), for 19 persons

Ross and Dylan (EHS)

Kent figured out how to get the bronze birds to spout water
one at a time (the green umbrellas are at Summer House)

Thursday, June 12, 2025

We returned to Maryland once again for Dylan's EMT Graduation, this time at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, MD. 

The Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Training Academy
Graduation officials and speakers

Dylan being presented his certificate

Dylan and the Montgomery County
Fire Chief Corey Smedley

The Emergency Medical Technician Class #192