Stephen attended prom early this April with a senior. He decided to go about a week before the dance, so we all scrambled to make it all work out. Once we arrived at his friends' house for pictures, he discovered that he had left his prom ticket at home. Mike graciously drove home to search Stephen's lair for the missing ticket while they took pictures to no avail. We thought that his ninth-grade English teacher who sold him the ticket would surely allow him in the door since they had a list of students and ticket numbers at the door, but we discovered this was an incorrect assumption when he called us later to inform us they did not. Luckily, one of his friends drove him from San Marcos all the way to our home in Austin and although he was resigned to staying home if he didn't find his ticket in the first five minutes, he found it in the front hall closet right away. They drove back to prom, but missed out on the picture booth which had already closed. Thank goodness we had taken him for pre-dance pictures or we would have none to commemorate the occasion.
