NJ to DC to TX

Lately, I've done a little bit of travelling, but am ashamed to admit, not a lot of photo taking.  I spent two weeks in Jersey hanging out with my family and friends.  People often ask what I plan to do when I go home.  Mostly, I just lie around on the couch reading, go grocery shopping for my mom at ShopRite, do things around the house like re-plant my mom's front flower bed, lie on my bed and hang out with my sister, and even bake Peruvian alfajores to help my sister with her Spanish project...

 
Not very exciting, but very relaxing and enjoyable.

From Jersey, I flew to DC where Aslik met me to spend the weekend hanging with the Sliks and attend a family wedding.  We hung out, chatted, and played pinochle late into the night.  We also came away with one of the funniest wedding stories ever.

So the story goes like this...

On our way to the wedding, I used my phone's gps to find directions to the reception site.  Just to double check, I had my sis-in-law type the address into her phone as well.  Both phones agreed and we were on our way to the wedding.  We get off the main road and drive down a shady gravel road and arrive at this beautiful manor:

We walk into the entrance, are greeted with programs and get in line to sign the guestbook.  I'm holding the program in my hand and am noticing that there's a letter "F" on the program followed by the names "Brian & Crystal".  Confused, I'm thinking to myself that I'm pretty sure Andy's cousin Brian is marrying a girl named Liz and their last name begins with a "C".  Then we see a picture of the lovely couple and realize that we are at the wrong wedding!  We run out of this wedding, re-plug in the address in our phones and make our way to a different manor, just a quarter mile down the road.  Late for the actual wedding, we arrive just as the bride is about to make her entrance.  Not wanting to make a disturbance during her grand entrance, we hang back in the rear of the wedding area with another couple that also arrived late.  I commented to the other couple that we had just gone to the wrong wedding.  As soon as the bride appears, I hear the girl next to me gasp and say, "We're at the wrong wedding!".  Turns out, they were supposed to be at the wedding we just tried to crash!  We sent them off with directions to the right wedding and even provided them with a wedding program that we had held onto.  Definitely makes for a great story!

Anyway, we had a great time celebrating with the new couple.  Congrats Brian and Liz!

And to end, here's a pic of the two of us.  I think this is probably the last wedding we'll attend this year....whew!  

 

Now I'm back home in TX, getting back into the groove of daily life!