Wedding Time
We seem to be getting progressively worse at blogging.... but will try to fix it. Now that we are in the States our blogging might not be quite as exotic as our Bolivia blogs, but we will try to have enough fun in life to make it worth reading about ;)
We spent this last weekend in Jacksonville Florida for Denny's wedding. (Michelle's brother.) First, I have to say that Jacksonville seems 1) to never end, 2) to be one big, huge suburb, and 3) to be the same thing (suburb, strip mall, target) repeated over and over about 100 times. Anyway, the weather was beautiful - 70s the whole time with just a little rain.
Our flight got in super late and so we did not make it to the first hotel until about 1:00 AM. We stayed at a La Quinta Inn. We were excited because when we made our reservations they said they did not have a crib, but the day we left they called our cell phone to tell us they got one. When we arrived at the hotel they had made a cozy little spot for our little Ethan to sleep, teddy bear and everything.
The next day we headed over to Denny and Crystal's house and then to the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. (Denny is a Navy pilot.) The rest of the trip we stayed in a nice 2 bedroom cabin on base... our back yard was the base golf course, so we had great accomodations for our time there.
We were both in the wedding, which was in the base chapel. We spent Friday doing things like getting tuxes, rehearsals, etc. and then the wedding was Saturday. Even though the wedding itself is only like 30 minutes it is amazing how quickly your time gets filled with wedding related activities. The wedding ended with a "Arches of Sabres" ceremony, which is done by other Naval officers and ends with the last officer hitting the bride on the butt and saying "Welcome to the Navy ma'am."
Sunday was spent at the beach... which Ethan loved! We thought the little guy would be scared of the water, but it was the opposite. First he started by getting a good taste of the beach... which he said was good, but too gritty and salty. Once he got into the water and hit by a wave he made us all laugh as he went chasing after the wave and crawling straight into the ocean! He had tons of fun. He had so much fun that he didn't even notice when he took his first two steps without holding onto anyone or anything! He is still too scared to try on his own at home, but there was something about being at the beach that made him go for it.
We will post more about our transition back to the States later, but wanted to share a little bit of our fun from this weekend!
We spent this last weekend in Jacksonville Florida for Denny's wedding. (Michelle's brother.) First, I have to say that Jacksonville seems 1) to never end, 2) to be one big, huge suburb, and 3) to be the same thing (suburb, strip mall, target) repeated over and over about 100 times. Anyway, the weather was beautiful - 70s the whole time with just a little rain.
Our flight got in super late and so we did not make it to the first hotel until about 1:00 AM. We stayed at a La Quinta Inn. We were excited because when we made our reservations they said they did not have a crib, but the day we left they called our cell phone to tell us they got one. When we arrived at the hotel they had made a cozy little spot for our little Ethan to sleep, teddy bear and everything.
The next day we headed over to Denny and Crystal's house and then to the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. (Denny is a Navy pilot.) The rest of the trip we stayed in a nice 2 bedroom cabin on base... our back yard was the base golf course, so we had great accomodations for our time there.
We were both in the wedding, which was in the base chapel. We spent Friday doing things like getting tuxes, rehearsals, etc. and then the wedding was Saturday. Even though the wedding itself is only like 30 minutes it is amazing how quickly your time gets filled with wedding related activities. The wedding ended with a "Arches of Sabres" ceremony, which is done by other Naval officers and ends with the last officer hitting the bride on the butt and saying "Welcome to the Navy ma'am."
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| From Denny & Cryst... |
Sunday was spent at the beach... which Ethan loved! We thought the little guy would be scared of the water, but it was the opposite. First he started by getting a good taste of the beach... which he said was good, but too gritty and salty. Once he got into the water and hit by a wave he made us all laugh as he went chasing after the wave and crawling straight into the ocean! He had tons of fun. He had so much fun that he didn't even notice when he took his first two steps without holding onto anyone or anything! He is still too scared to try on his own at home, but there was something about being at the beach that made him go for it.
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| From Ethan at the ... |
We will post more about our transition back to the States later, but wanted to share a little bit of our fun from this weekend!
posted by Unknown @ 3:22 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:05 PM,
Lisa said…
Jacksonville is a bit of a hole- and I'm pretty sure it's the largest, land-wise, city in the US. But you can't judge the rest of the state on Jax. The beach pics sure made me pretty jealous though!
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