Whew, we're home at last! David and I spent under 24 hours in Salt Lake City this weekend for his friend Andy's wedding. We drove up to Portland Friday night to stay with my Mom and left the kids with her while we jetted out at 11 in the morning. We got into Salt Lake City around 1pm and found our rental car without too much hassle. David insisted we get the GPS navigation system which totally saved our bacon. It directed us the 20 miles to our hotel without any problems. We discovered that somehow our reservation was canceled when we tried to check in which was going to be a problem until we discovered that they did have hotel rooms available and they would honor the wedding group rate. Whew. Disaster averted.
On the way to our hotel room we ran into the groom's father and chatted with him for a moment before making our way to our very comfortable room. We unloaded our stuff and then drove around a bit to find somewhere to eat some lunch. We had just enough time to get back to the hotel (only 3 "recalculations" to our route later), change for the wedding, and drive straight to the church.
We found our seats, read the program, and started to get worried when the pastor announced that wedding would be late. I can't imagine what the poor groom was feeling! The wedding finally started about 20 minutes late (later found out it was because the bride's dress took longer to lace then expected). The ceremony was very touching and beautiful. Andy's dad officiated the wedding which was like deja vu for me because the only other time I met him was at our wedding over 7 years ago. As soon as the vows started it was like a flashback! Andy played the piano and sang to his bride during the ceremony which was really neat to watch.
After the ceremony we got back into our rental car to drive to the reception which turned out to be a complicated route. We would have been in big trouble without the GPS as one of the roads had a different name then what was on the directions. Since we didn't get lost we were one of the first people to arrive, and knowing nobody other then the groom and his family we chose a table and sat down hoping to find interesting people to talk to. Turns out our tablemates were not that interesting to talk to, but once dinner was over we had a good time chatting with the groom and dancing to the live band. The reception location was gorgeous and we really did have a good time!
By 9:30pm the party wasn't over but was starting to wrap up a little so we took our leave. We did meet up with the groom's family for breakfast the next morning which was nice and we chatted for an hour or so before we had to pack up and head back to the airport. We didn't have a chance to print out our boarding passes so we checked in once we got there. That was when we discovered it wasn't a direct flight home which was a bummer. Since we flew Southwest and we checked in at the airport we wound up in boarding group C, basically the last people on the plane. I realized there was no way we'd be able to sit together so I took the first available seat with people that looked like they'd be nice. We made a stop in Boise where we were able to move up to the second row and sit together. The flight from Boise to Portland was a smoother ride and we exited the airport right as my Mom pulled our minivan into view. Perfect timing.
It was a fun but fast weekend, and I'm glad we got to go. It was dissapointing that David's parents weren't able to make it, especially at the reception since we would have enjoyed their company!
2 comments:
Wow, that was a fast trip! How nice that you got to go kid-free though. :) I can't wait until my kids are old enough to do that. LOL.
That would have been a hard trip to do with children. Adults can take it call it "fun." Glad you got to take the trip.
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