The Wedding

On Saturday morning, we headed out to the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum. Despite the fact that we are a little older than the target audience, the Museum (as all Hand-On museums I've ever been to) was a blast. I think the only thing we learned that we didn't know before was that for every pound of humans, there is 300 pounds of insects (to which Jennifer replied that she needed to lose some weight). Still, their exhibits are cool and lots of fun to play with.

The wedding was at 2 PM and we were planing to pick up Archie and Jessica at 1:30 at their hotel. Except we didn't have directions and the short cut I took didn't seem to lead to their place and the receptionist at their hotel that we called was not good with directions, either. Eventually we re-traced the route from the night before and arrived at their hotel at ten till two.

They leisurely got in and I floored it and flew towards the church - another good 20 minutes away. Luckily they mentioned that the wedding was actually at 2:30 so we made it with a lot of time to spare.

The wedding itself was lovely. It was in an old, beautiful methodist church (read: short service). John's brother Jeff, who plays french horn for the Boston Brass, played his horn with a piano/organ before the ceremony and it was lovely. Shannan's dress was great and fit her perfectly (size and style wise). It was wonderful watching them at the altar exchanging their wows. I kept thinking how appropriate they were for each other and wondered what took them so long (probably the same thing some people are wondering about Jennifer and me).

After the ceremony we killed some time in a cafe (with Jeannie, Tommy, Kearsy, Archie and Jessica and Kim and Robert). We then headed to the student union for the reception - one of the many old, ivy covered red-brick buildings that grace U of M's campus. Food was yummy, the jazz quartet sounded great as did Jeanie's song. As John and Shannan were leaving, they found John's car filled with balloons, loose rice and misc. crap which took them a while to get rid off, to everyone's amusement. They then took of to spend their honeymoon in Maine.

Our group went downtown and had some snacks and dessert in a side walk cafe. Ann Arbor is very nice in August. The temperature was lows in the 60s and highs in the 80s on a day when Austin broke 100 for the first time this year.