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September 12, 2004

Good Weekend

So this past weekend was pretty good. Friday was Kibby's wedding rehearsal and dinner. The reshearsal went well and I, as best man even remembered to bring "practice" rings to it. I had some twist ties and I'd made small rings from them before when I'd be bored while at the computer, so I figured it was a perfect opportunity to make some rings to bring along and suprise them with. No one expected that, and I think Kibby really appreciated them which of course made me feel good.
Then was the dinner which was at La Casitia (I think that's how it's spelled) just over on Bethel down the street from my place. It's a local Mexican food place, which I didn't expect for a rehearsal dinner, but the food was really good. The food took awhile to be prepared so we munched on chips and salsa for quite awhile, but when it did arrive we had lots of fajitas, stuffed peppers, rice, beans, and other stuff that I can't remember at the moment. We also had some great desert. Liz really enjoyed her fried ice cream and I thought the dulce de leche cake was also awesome.
After dinner we all headed over to Kibby's new house which he had been renovating since he got it about 3 months ago. The place looks great compared when I first saw it, which was about a month after he bought it. I'd say he easily has added at least $10k to the worth of the place just by cleaning up the wood floors all the painting and refinishing the walls and getting rid of the smoke smell the definately was there before. After that it was back to Liz's to give Lilly her medicine (she had a big fat lip from getting scratched or bitten by Sammy), then back to get to sleep for the wedding the next morning.
Saturday morning involved getting up early and arriving at the Park of Roses by 9:15 for pictures. Then it was photo session and just waiting around till 11:30 for the actual wedding. Kibby of course at first thought he really wasn't nervous, but then started to get a little antsy to get things started. The wedding actually started around 11:45 and I got to do my Best Man duties with the real ring this time. Things went perfectly (and with a couple tears from almost everyone). Then for the post-wedding photo session and over to the reception which was at the Westerville Golf Center.
Both the wedding and reception were outdoors, which wasn't too bad except being in the hot sun with no clouds in a black tux makes you get very hot very quickly. The reception was very informal. There was a free round of putt putt golf for everyone, the head table was for Kibby, Leslie, and their family while the rest of the wedding party just sat and mingled with the rest of the people at the reception (which I guess was good for Liz since she didn't really know anyone else there). Then I got to give my toast, which first included a bunch of crazy things Kibby has done in the past. A few of them I mentioned are:

He builds a swimming pool out of the shower.
Or stores buckets of ice in your and the nieghbor's fridges to make a wall of ice.
Visits the Olentangy River on Thursday night to throw fruit into it as a sacrifice to the Olentangy River god.
Takes the bedroom door off the hinges and leaves it in the bed for you.
Flushes the toilet while you're in the shower to test the plumbing.
Decides to bring the grill inside and cook on it during a rainy day.
Decides to cook his burgers using Lysol when you run out of charcoal.

Nadine, the maid of honor actually left the reception right after she got there, supposedly saying she wasn't feeling well. This actually didn't suprise me since she has some issues with eating and I bet she was pretty tired after a whole morning of being busy and nothing for her body to use as energy. So since she wasn't there the next girl in line gave a toast also (I can't remember her name at the moment, because I'm horrible with names of course). Then there was the customary dances, then Kibby and Leslie headed off in their getaway car. Leslie had to drive since it's a stick and Kibby doesn't know how to drive it. They had a suprise limo ride from the wedding to the reception.
So after they left, of course the party was pretty much over and we ended up on clean up duty, which involved moving all the tables and chairs from the reception area to the parking lot where they'd be picked up by church staff later. That was a LOT of work to do, especially in a tux, but I couldn't complain of course since I did get free food and I was the best man in the wedding.
So after cleanup was complete Liz and I headed back to my place to change and relax for awhile. Then it was back to her place yet again to give Lilly her medicine and while we were there we ate some pizza at Tiberio's.
Then it was back to my place which I noticed a message from Craft asking if we had any plans for the night. So we ended up going over to his new place and playing some hand and foot for a couple hours before coming back and getting to sleep.
We got up Sunday around noon (I know we didn't go to church - bad us!) and Liz wanted to go horseback riding. So I called around and found a place down in Orient that let people just show up and ride. So we got some lunch and headed down there. The ride was somewhere around 45 minutes and was a nice slow trot through the woods in the area. It was sort of relaxing and a nice change to the busy city. Liz's horse must have been hungry since it kept stopping to eat grass, and Liz had trouble getting it to stop eating and keep walking. Eventually she got it going again though and we survived without being stranded with grass-eating horses all day.
Then we drove back and David had also just got back from being at home. Prior to that he had been in China for about 10 days with my friend Claire and a couple other friends and of course had a lot to talk about.
We headed down to campus for him to pick up mail and at the same time coordinated where Me, Liz, David, Radigan, Molly, Craft, and Kristin would be eating dinner. David and Radigan really wanted steak, but Craft and Kristin didn't, so we settled on Applebee's finally with the promise of Outback Steakhouse later this week.
Applebee's was of course good (when isn't it good?). I had chicken parmesean for a change, just to see what it was like. It was pretty good, not the best I've ever had, but definately acceptable.
Then it was back to the condo where some of us played hand and foot again (the guys one this time! the night before the girls kicked our butt majorly) while Molly, Radigan and David played some video games then decided to brainstorm about the robot course for this coming year. Then after our card game Liz, Kristin and Craft went home and that left the four of us thinking about the robot course. Eventually that ended and then everyone settled in for bed, which leads up till now.
So overall this has been one of the best weekend I've had in awhile. Liz had a really good time today and I felt like she wasn't worried about anything for once. Making Kibby happy of course makes me feel good, and getting a bunch of friends together for dinner is always a great thing.
Tomorrow Lil Jenny will be visiting, and I'll be getting lunch with her and her Mr. Erik, the German guy she's been seeing for a couple years now. I don't remember the last time I actually saw her, and she spends most of her time in Europe so I feel special that she's actually going to stop by just to see me. Then I have all those other fun errands like returning the tux, cleaning my room yet again, and I'm sure more things I'm forgetting. Enjoy reading this long post, I think it's a new record for me. Peaceout!

Pictures of the wedding are available here. Liz took all of these since I was busy best manning. More will come later as I get them.

Posted by Plocmstart at September 12, 2004 10:55 PM

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