Back In Action

Welp, it's been a while but I'm back. I'm married now, too.

We were in the Oddfellows building which has a lodge/chapel and a reception hall in the same building. The ceremony was short and sweet, complete with Calvin and Hobbes quote (search the page for, "love"). From the time we got people seated to the time everybody was leaving the chapel was about 7 minutes. Lynell and I spent about 45 minutes alone, enjoying our first momens of matrimonial bliss and eating dinner. Then we signed the appropriate paperwork, got some photos with the families, and got to drinking.

We had an open bar and everybody was glad. We all got really trashed and had lots of fun jumping about to music and so forth. I was double-fisting beer and gin 'n' tonics all night, which is why I don't really remember the last hour of the reception or hurling in our bed that night. As we saw friends and relatives over the course of the following day (Sunday), they all told us what a great time they had and how happy they were for us. I guess we all know that our friends love us, but it was still great to have so many of them show up to the wedding and wish us well.

We spent Sunday recuperating and then had dinner at the Oceano with the remaining members of our family who were still in town. Monday we took care of some loose ends then headed off to Nice, CA right next to Clear Lake for the honeymoon. We didn't do much except what folks do on their honeymooon and watch a lot of movies. It was peaceful and quiet and extremely pleasant. We came back on Sunday and have the rest of the week off so we can get our lives in order before we wade back into work.

All in all, everything went extremely well and we're happy and stuff. Good times.