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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

No Pictures to Prove It, But We Had a Great Time.

The past few days, Reid and I have had one of the best weekends we've ever had together (in the entire 20 long months we've known each other).  We flew out Friday morning to Boulder, CO to see one of Reid's closest friends from his highschool days at Riverside Military Academy get married to a gorgeous girl he has been in love with since he graduated from highschool.  With the time change we still arrived at Chatauqua before noon.  The wedding was on Sunday morning and we got back to Washington around 1am this morning. (Sidenote:  If you work at a particularly popular coffee shop founded in Seattle off I-20 between Atlanta and Washington, please don't close at 10:30 when tired people driving home are counting on you to be open until 11:00 like the Garmin and your sign says.  A cup of coffee would have meant a whole lot more to me than closing early would have meant to you last night, okay?)
At Chatauqua, we had rented one of the little cottages which were all in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The scenery was breathtaking.  The people were incredible.  The wedding was beautiful.  The food was outstanding.  I think this trip will be something Reid and I reminisce about when we're old.  And I hope our memories stay sharp because we forgot to take any pictures. 

That said, I'm really actually even more grateful now than I was before we left that my laptop had totally gone kaput on me.  I brought my camera but forgot to use it except for a couple shots of some vegetables we found at a great Farmer's Market (I think food is the only thing I take pictures of anyway).  We pretty much kept our phones on silent.  And we didn't even have a TV in the room (which is really good for us because we don't have a TV at home and would have probably missed the wedding because we were too sucked into watching Friends reruns like little entertainment deprived junkies). 

 Basically, we had no choice but to be with only the people that were actually there in person.

 Luckily we ended up amongst some really great people. We didn't really have anywhere we "had" to be except for dinner or the wedding (or the bachelorette party which I was thrilled to get to be a part of even though I had just met all of the girls including the bride who all turned out to be awesome, super fun, belly laughing with them even though you just met them type of girls).  It was just four days in complete vacation mode.  Not the camera-strapped-around-your-neck and check-the-next-attraction-off-your-list kind of vacation.  The "let's just go on a walk and see where we end up" type of vacation along with a little "why not have a glass of wine with breakfast?" mixed in with a little dice playing, hiking on a snowy mountain, spontaneous wine and cheese parties and most adorable three year old little boy who could high kick and jazz hands to the Rockettes better than any 5'10" ballerina could ever dream of doing.

I think over the next few posts I'll talk about the amazing Tea House we had dinner at Friday night or my new fascination with Szechuan Buttons.  I'll definitely have to include a post on the mother of the groom, who has to be the most superb hostess I have ever met in my life.  And about fifty other things about why Reid and I think we should vacation in Boulder every year now.  And how we really hope the couples who were dating at the wedding get married and invite us so we can hang out with all the same people again in one place... 

Perfect wedding, perfect weekend.  Congratulations Zach & Stacy!!