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Skriven 2013-03-20 14:13:00 av Nancy Backus (65252.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 34951 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: travels 267
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-18-13  03:38 <=-

 NB>> That might just have been the system trying to readjust from the ice
 NB>> castle...  ;)   Was it a lovely wedding...?

 ML> It was an amusing and rather sweet occasion but lasted longer
 ML> than expected owing to the AWOL of the best man, the grandfather
 ML> of the groom and a friend of Weller's - turns out he had set his
 ML> clocks the wrong way on daylight confusion day and was happily
 ML> going about his business two hours off.

Did he arrive two hours late, or was he "found" sooner...?  :)  I'd be
much happier if daylight stealing time didn't exist... I need that hour
in the morning...  :)

 ML> Some of the members of the wedding entourage were more
 ML> inconvenienced than the guests, as their role demanded that
 ML> they be dressed relatively fashionably. There was a blower
 ML> heating the main room to near freezing, which was helpful.

Fur stoles might have come in handy for the ladies, I imagine.  :)  I
guess that can explain a bit of your sniffles, too...  :)

 ML> The ice castle was kind of neat but had suffered some
 ML> thoughtless destruction - quite a number of people had peed
 ML> on the outer walls and in the ice parking lot, causing rather
 ML> unfestive yellow stains here and there, plus some genius had
 ML> dropped a cup of coffee on an inner wall, partially melting it.

You'd think people would have more couth..  ;)  Also, cold as it was,
they'd put themselves at some danger of mishap, I'd think...  One could
probably put the last to clumsiness... maybe... ;)

 ML> The officiant had a number of memory lapses, explained by
 ML> his having recently had chemo for some particularly horrible
 ML> cancer, but everyone including himself met these with good humor.

Couldn't be helped, so one might as well..  :)  At our wedding, my
grampa administered the vows, and asked Richard if he would "take this
man to be your lawfully wedded wife"... a bit nonplussed, Richard said
nothing, and Grampa caught it, and returned with the proper form... all
had a bit of a chuckle over it... and it was caught on tape... ;)

 ML> Afterward, we all repaired to the Explorer, the fanciest
 ML> hotel in town for the reception and dinner; the original
 ML> plan I think was for Jim and me to sneak a couple drinks
 ML> and then leave Roslind (pretty close friends with the
 ML> bride and her mom) to reap the benefits, but it turned
 ML> out to be a sit-down dinner in a private room. We couldn't
 ML> expect to be paid for, so Jim and I wondered what to do
 ML> about what promised to be a substantial bill. Turns out
 ML> that the best man footed the bill while this lady Rita,
 ML> who employs the bride (I think) and some of the guests,
 ML> paid for a couple bottles of wine on the other side of the
 ML> room and I paid a couple bottles on this side of the room.

So a good time was had by all.  :)

 ML> We left as the younger set were beginning to get rowdy,
 ML> but there seemed to be something to entertain everybody.

Indeed lovely.  :)

ttyl         neb

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