the wedding day-trippers

Last weekend, on the super-lucky day of 7-7-07, my college buddy Curtis got married just outside of Milwaukee. Overboard and I were able to make the drive there and back without much issue, while Kenny got to hang with a babysitter back at the homestead.

Because of scheduling/timing issues with the babysitter, we were forced to miss the wedding ceremony, but made it up for the reception, which was very nice. Even better, I got to not only see Curtis again (and meet his wife), but one of my good friends from college, Nancy, who was in from Seattle for the event (and thus known throughout the weekend as "Nancy from Seattle").


Evenkeel, Curtis and Nancy: The Vassar Brewers!

Nancy has two boys of her own, and we spent a lot of time laughing, catching up, and sharing parenting stories and tips. Overboard had never met Nancy before, but they bonded quickly, and thankfully it was not by making fun of me all evening.



Times like these, when you get to see friends for the first time in way too long, makes you wish there were a way to convince everyone to just live in the same place again, like, I dunno, Chicago. This all plays into Overboard's master plan for retirement, when she wants to accomplish that feat by having everyone we love move into Del Boca Vista Phase 2 together so we can play canasta and swap grandchildren stories in between Slimnastics classes and early bird dinners.