It doesn't seem possible that it was only a week ago yesterday that we shared the Easter holiday with our neighbors, the Sweeneys - that a week ago today we were doing a final fluff and buff on the house - a week ago tomorrow that we picked up George and Carol at LAX.
Saturday was such an incredible day. We must express our deepest thanks to Terence Love for turning a jazz club into the perfect setting for our wedding. It made our celebration as much "us" as it could possibly have been. The day could not possibly have been the same without our friend, Rev. David Graham officiating, and we again thank he and his wife Pat for rearranging their vacation to make this all possible. Of course, the proverbial icing on the cake was being surrounded by the smiling faces of our families and friends as we started this new chapter in our live together.
We are sorry that Lee and Sue were not also here to share this special time with us, but having Margaret's two older siblings here was an incredible blessing. (As of course, was having Larry's Northern California cousins here for the weekend.) The days flew by, filled with so much laughter and joy.
We spent our last afternoon with George and Carol t-r-y-i-n-g to give them a taste of the local beaches. With temperatures soaring into the 80's and 90's, we certainly weren't the only folks with the same thought! We were finally able to find a parking space in Newport, grabbed a great burger lunch at a restaurant that had opened just that morning, and hit the souvenir shops so that each of them had beachie gifts for their grandkids. Hoping to show off a bit more of our gorgeous coastline, we then headed north on Coast Highway, quickly stalling out in bumper to bumper traffic that eventually turned us back inland and home. There was time for one last meal together Sunday evening, brought home from a local Mexican restaurant we'd been telling them about all week. Oh yes, and another piece of incredible wedding cake. Four tired people were ready to call it a day pretty early in the evening.
We dropped the two of them at LAX at around 8:15 this morning, after extracting promises from both that they would come visit us again. (There's so many more things we would love to show them in our little corner of the world.) Margaret just got a call from Carol; they'd safely arrived back in Detroit and were headed on to Battle Creek. We miss you guys. Please do come back and see us soon...
Saturday was such an incredible day. We must express our deepest thanks to Terence Love for turning a jazz club into the perfect setting for our wedding. It made our celebration as much "us" as it could possibly have been. The day could not possibly have been the same without our friend, Rev. David Graham officiating, and we again thank he and his wife Pat for rearranging their vacation to make this all possible. Of course, the proverbial icing on the cake was being surrounded by the smiling faces of our families and friends as we started this new chapter in our live together.
We are sorry that Lee and Sue were not also here to share this special time with us, but having Margaret's two older siblings here was an incredible blessing. (As of course, was having Larry's Northern California cousins here for the weekend.) The days flew by, filled with so much laughter and joy.
We spent our last afternoon with George and Carol t-r-y-i-n-g to give them a taste of the local beaches. With temperatures soaring into the 80's and 90's, we certainly weren't the only folks with the same thought! We were finally able to find a parking space in Newport, grabbed a great burger lunch at a restaurant that had opened just that morning, and hit the souvenir shops so that each of them had beachie gifts for their grandkids. Hoping to show off a bit more of our gorgeous coastline, we then headed north on Coast Highway, quickly stalling out in bumper to bumper traffic that eventually turned us back inland and home. There was time for one last meal together Sunday evening, brought home from a local Mexican restaurant we'd been telling them about all week. Oh yes, and another piece of incredible wedding cake. Four tired people were ready to call it a day pretty early in the evening.
We dropped the two of them at LAX at around 8:15 this morning, after extracting promises from both that they would come visit us again. (There's so many more things we would love to show them in our little corner of the world.) Margaret just got a call from Carol; they'd safely arrived back in Detroit and were headed on to Battle Creek. We miss you guys. Please do come back and see us soon...
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