Sheep Guarding Llama

Min and I finally got a little bit of a chance to sleep in a little this morning. Boy did we need it after this weekend. We were zonked. Min had to spend a lot of time today getting ready for her flight tomorrow. She is trying to pack light which isn’t easy for her. She doesn’t have me with her to carry her luggage and she doesn’t want to hurt her back so she is trying to take as little as she can get away with if at all possible.

We went over to dad’s around 3:00 to help set up a little for the picnic this afternoon. Andy went over to his family’s Memorial Day events closer to noon. I think that he is secretly very excited about having made macaroni salad.

I hit some golf balls around before everyone arrived at 4:15. Dad has a massive lawn now and there is plenty of room to hit golf balls around. It is really cool. Now I just need to invest in a large number of golf balls so that I can actually use the place like a driving range.

Uncle Leo, Aunt Sharon, Granda, Sara, Jeremy and Sara’s friend “Toast” all arrived around 4:15 and we ate near 5:00. Dad cooked on the grill. Min and I had the same delicious Morning Star Philly Cheese Steak soy burgers that I had had the other night. Boy those are good.

We got home around 8:00. I worked on the laptop for a little while. I went to bed around 10:30 and Min followed just a little bit later, closer to 11:00. Luckily, I was tired already so I was able to fall asleep. Tonight would be an awful night to not be able to fall asleep rapidly. I really think that my CPAP causes me to associate wearing it with sleeping and I pretty much fall asleep once I put it on.

The morning after! Dominica and I were up bright and early and on the road back to Farmington this morning. We were still pretty tired from yesterday. We were hoping to get to Josh and JoAnna’s close to 10:00 but it was more like 10:40 by the time that we finally got all of the way out there. We stopped in Lakeville on the way through at the McDonald’s and got some breakfast. We were in need of some quick egg protein.

We hung out with the newlyweds until about 2:00. When we went to leave (we had to leave when we did because we had to return by tux back to Marketplace Mall) we discovered that the waistcoat to my tux was missing. We searched everywhere for it. It was handy that we were out where the wedding was so that we didn’t have to wonder if it was somewhere else. We looked everywhere including in my car and in my luggage. I could have sworn that I had brought it in the night before but it was very dark out and I wasn’t able to see when I brought things in from the tent. So we are really hoping that Phil got the waistcoat somehow by mistake since we weren’t able to get a hold of him this morning.

Off to Marketplace Mall we went. I turned in my tux, that only took a second. They were very helpful about the lost waistcoat. We didn’t get anything resolved, but they were very helpful. Min did some shoe shopping at the Discount Shoe Warehouse Shoe Warehouse (no, I am not repeating myself, that is its name.) She found some flip-flops that she liked. She wanted to get some so that she would have something cool to wear when she goes to Texas in two days.

We got home around 5:00 just minutes after the Ralstons had called to see if we wanted to play a few games of AoE2. It was a long weekend and we figured that we needed a chance to relax so we decided that that sounded like a good idea. I called up Jeremy and he said that he was allowed to play. So I ran down to Leicester to pick him up. Dad also had the Case’s new laptop in his car that I needed to pick up so that I could work on that as well. No rest for the weary.

We played from about 6:30 till 11:30. It was an exhausting night. I needed that. I got Jeremy home around 11:45 and I collapsed into bed as soon as I was home again.

Today is the wedding. I decided to stay at home last night to make logistics easier this morning even though it meant considerably more driving. I got out to Josh’s at 8:55 – five minutes before Josh told me to be out there but he was already calling me by then to see where I was. Even when I am early I don’t get any credit for it.

Josh, Phil, Bob and I spent most of the morning getting the decorating done for the reception. We set up tables, chairs and did almost all of the setup in the tent. The tent was up the night before so we didn’t have to worry about that this morning. That was a relief. We would never have been able to deal with that today. We had been planning on playing golf this morning but we ended up barely being able to get everything done and to get to the wedding. After getting the decorating done, the four of us had to run up to Eastview Mall so that Josh could get his hair cut. Luckily we walked into the mall and there was a place right there that had no line so he was able to get right in or we would have been in big trouble. He managed to get right in and out. We ran across the street to Amiel’s and grabbed subs to go and ate them back at Josh’s while we took showers in shifts. We weren’t able to shower previously because we had been working outside so we were tight for time.

Phil and I went over to the Granger Homestead first to get everything in order since Josh wasn’t quite ready yet. Min and Andy were about the first ones there (unlike at Phil and Kate’s wedding where Min and Jenn were incredibly late.) It was kind of funny that Min and Andy sat together at Josh’s wedding where Phil, Bob and I were the best men since Min first sat just behind Andy and Josh at Phil’s wedding where I was the best man. Funny how things turn around like that. I bet no one else even noticed how that worked.

Bob and Josh made it over not too far behind us. Phil and Bob got everyone seated and we got the show rolling pretty promtly. The weather was absolutely perfect. We couldn’t have asked for a better day for the wedding. The rain held off for all of the times that there were actual wedding activities going on but the sun didn’t get so warm that it was ever uncomfortable.

The wedding went smoothly and afterwards we all headed over to Josh and JoAnna’s for the reception. Having the “village” park right next to their house really worked out well since they were able to put the reception tent onto the park lawn but it faced their house and blended right into their lawn it was really cool. Very easy to deal with. We got over to the reception around 5:00. Dinosaur BBQ arrived to do the catering at 5:30. We partied on until about 9:00 when people started to move on. Min and Andy took off and I stayed around to help out for a little while. I didn’t head home till around 10:00 or maybe a little bit later. Over at SGL2 there are three audio postings from the reception that you should go and check out.

Today is Min’s last day of teaching for the year (season.) She had finals for the first half of the day and then had basically a fun day for the afternoon. I went up to Greece and spent a good part of the afternoon hanging with Craig. I went up and visited him at his new house. He has been there for a little while but I haven’t seen it yet. He lives in Greece not too far from the lake. Megan used to live very near there. Only a few blocks away from where Josh, Andy and I used to live at Greenleaf. We hung out and had coffee out on the patio. I wasn’t able to stay there long, though, because I had to get back down to pick Min up so that we could get out to Farmington for the wedding rehearsal this evening.

I got home right at 4:00. Min and I loaded up the car with whatever we needed for the evening and drove out to Farmington. The tent was already set up in the Farmbrook Park when we arrived. It really looks like there is going to be a wedding here. We got there at just the right time. We mingled with everyone getting ready to go over to the Granger Homestead for about fifteen minutes and then we all loaded into the cars and caravaned on down to the wedding locale.

The wedding (and ergo the rehearsal) is taking place at the Granger Homestead. The Granger Homestead is a historic building in Canandaigua that reminds you of being at one of the buildings at the Genesee Country Museum. Only there is only a single building plus a carriage museum. It is coincidental that both places have similar carriage museums. But that really isn’t very interesting.

After the rehearsal, everyone went back up to Josh and Jo’s for the rehearsal dinner. Phil, Bob and I had to run up to Eastview Mall to get Bob’s tux because everyone had forgotten about it and we were really down to the last minute. So we ran up there to take care of it tonight since waiting until tomorrow would really be asking for trouble. I had to take him up because Bob was without a car and everyone else was busy with the dinner.

It was decently late by the time we left Farmington to go home. Probably around 10:00. On the way home, I discovered that by taking Buffalo Street in Canandaigua, I am able to shave off a couple of minutes and a couple of miles of city driving between Josh’s house and mine. That will make the trip a little bit easier. Especially as we make this trip over and over again over the next few days.

I was very glad to not have to work last night. Only having a two day week is really nice, especially when it is Monday/Tuesday and I get a six day weekend to go with it!

I putzed around the house this morning until 10:30 when I had to go up to Rochester to meet with someone from work. We had lunch at the McGreggor’s on Jefferson Road. I have never actually been there before but it is practically identical to the one on Gregory in the South Wedge. Nothing special but the place is all right. The atmosphere is very “low end bar” but the food is okay. As long as you know about their annoying fish and chips policy.

This afternoon, Mary and Jocelyn were heading up to Rochester to go to Borders to look for A+ books. So we all decided to go. Andy, Min and I went with them and made an evening of it. We all went book shopping and spent a bit of time at Borders. Min was very happy because she managed to get a couple of knitting books and magazines.