Date: Friday, November 9th - Sunday November 11th
Type: Travel, Out of Town, Family, Friends
Cost: $$$
Planned By: Other
Adam
and I were invited to Lori & Alex's wedding in Cincinnati for
November 10th. We decided to make a whole weekend out of traveling to
the other side of Ohio.
On Friday night we stayed with Michelle and Jim in Columbus. We went
to Cap City for dinner, played Nirtz at their apartment and went to
Tasi for breakfast the next morning. We had a delicious meal at both
places. Cap City is a fine diner. I got a yummy chicken sandwich and
Adam got the fried chicken dinner. At Tasi we both got the Sausage Gravy
over Biscuits.. because we love them and Michelle claimed them to be
better than Boyd's. They were very good, but I still like Boyd's a tad
bit more mostly because it was the first place I'd ever had them, and it
changed my life. Nirtz is a card game that I am horrible at. I will not
explain it to you, and I may try to avoid playing it again. It started
out fun then I realized I sucked and I'm a bit of a sore loser.
On Saturday we drove the rest of the way to Cincinnati. We got to
the church early and got pretty good aisle seats for the ceremony. It
was a beautiful Catholic ceremony. The bride and groom looked amazing!
After the ceremony we checked in our hotel room, had a couple glasses of
wine and jumped on the shuttle to the reception. The cocktail hour was
very nice with an open bar, hors d'oeuvres, live music and a cute slide
show of the bride and groom. Around six o'clock the wedding party
arrived so we found our table which had a great view of the dance floor.
We had a delicious dinner of salad, stuffed chicken, red skin potatoes
and green beans. They quickly got the party started after dinner with
the cake cutting, first dance, father/daughter dance, mother/son dance,
and bridal party dance. We didn't get to participate in the bouquet toss
or garter toss, but they had the anniversary dance! Being married for
only a year and half kept us in the dance just longer than the bride and
groom. But someday we'll be the last ones standing. :) Then there was
lots and lots of dancing. Alex, the groom, wrote and sang a beautiful
song to Lori, the bride. I haven't ever seen him perform live before,
and he was very talented. I loved it. :) Lots more dancing and
celebrating continued. At the end we took the shuttle back and went
straight to sleep. (Some idiot burned popcorn at 2AM and it took the
hotel 20 minutes to turn off their smoke alarm... and the burned popcorn
smell filled our room.. it was horrible)
Sunday morning we met Tim, Liisa and their baby Camden at Perkins
for brunch. It was our first time meeting Camden, and he's already one!
He was super cute, and I'm glad we finally met him. Tim and Liisa are
moving to NYC so it was nice being able to see them before they leave.
Although it will give us a good excuse to visit NYC. (my camera died.. so no pictures :( )
The drive back home wasn't too bad mostly because it was such a nice
weekend. I'm glad we got to see so many people that we rarely see. :)
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