<p>It seems like just yesterday I lived on this board looking for info to help my DD get started at Tulane and now it is time to plan graduation! </p>
<p>DD says that the unified ceremony is at 9am and the individual ceremony for her will be at 3pm. I know I have seen somewhere that the unified is a very long, but fun event and I was wondering if there is time for a nice lunch between the two events or is better to plan on a quick bite for lunch and a more laid back dinner later that night?</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>The unified part of the ceremony should be over between 11:00 and 11:30, I think. The business school ceremony starts at 12:00. Newcomb-Tulane isn’t until 3:00 as you say, also at the Superdome. So you should have plenty of time for any lunch you want, especially if you stay downtown. But even if you wanted to head up to the Garden District at, for example, Commander’s Palace, you would have more than enough time.</p>
<p>how large is the party you’re having to move from the unified ceremony to lunch to the N-T ceremony? how many vehicles are needed? how many elderly? what’s traffic like around the superdome during commencement?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t imagine that should be much of an issue, jkeil. There are tons of taxis available and it is a very inexpensive ride anywhere they would be going in the general area, no more than 5 miles. So even if they had to take several cabs, the logistics should be simple. Traffic isn’t too bad because most people are not driving themselves, and they aren’t all leaving at once.</p>
<p>Good, fc, I was just thinking thru the permutations. Four years from now I might be trying to do the same thing. I wouldn’t try such a thing here in DC, for instance, and I’m not familiar with New Orleans traffic and distances. In DC, such a schedule would be too tight and would not allow for a relaxed lunch. There wouldn’t be any slack in the schedule to allow for granddad’s making a wrong turn and ending up at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial in VA.</p>
<p>Understood, jkeil. The Superdome is on Poydras, a major street (right across from Tulane Med in fact). It is very quick to get to the interstate, a few other major cross streets and therefore to just about anywhere you want to be. NOLA is a very small city compared to DC, especially the commercial area. No matter where you are within the Central Business District/FQ area (which together comprises all of what most people would call “downtown”), within several blocks you are out of it and therefore into pretty normal, relatively light traffic unless it is rush hour or after a Saints game or something like that.</p>
<p>I wonder if maybe in the future they will have this at Yulman instead of the Superdome. It does rain a lot in New Orleans and May can already be pretty warm, so maybe not. Just wondering if they are even thinking about it.</p>
<p>must be nice. maybe I’ll live in such a community when I retire. I don’t have a bad commute most days, 7 miles in 22-50 minutes, but I’m paying for it in my mortgage. Colleagues are commuting 40 miles and an hour on a good day. I’m dreaming of retiring to Fort Collins, CO.</p>
<p>I have driven by Ft. Collins many times (Denver to Laramie drive on business), and stopped there once. Beautiful country and great for the outdoorsy type.</p>
<p>Just a lovely university town. Good healthcare. Very livable. Great weather. Lots of good microbreweries and a pedestrian mall. Relaxed, with access to tremendous recreational opportunities. They even escaped the flooding this year, but they had the forest fires last year.</p>
<p>Yes, and not really all that far from Denver should the need or desire arise for what only a bigger city can offer, like pro sports, symphony/opera, museums, etc. It does sound like a good plan.</p>
<p>great minds think alike, fc 8+)</p>
<p>we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.</p>
<p>I think the regularly scheduled program is over. Wasn’t the question answered?</p>
<p>Yes, the question was answered as I knew it would be. I must have been dreaming when I thought I had read that the unified lasted almost 4 hours! Lucky I was wrong!</p>