Thursday, October 04, 2007

Whirlwind Wedding (but not our own) Part 1

Last Friday, a friend of mine from work covered the last 20 minutes of my last class so I could make it to the airport on time. Of course, this being 2007, the flight was delayed, but we did eventually make it down to Southern California. M's aunt, uncle, and two grown cousins are also from South Africa, but they have lived in San Diego for several years now. The elder one was getting married, so we had the chance to do a little research by attending the wedding.

Of course, since our flight was delayed, we missed the rehearsal dinner, and had to go instead to an Olive Garden at 10:30 at night. Olive Garden is not a good choice at any time, but it was especially bad because they were doing their best to hurry up and get us out of there. This was the first of our unfortunate food experiences. The second occurred when we went to get breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Some buffet breakfasts are sinful but also delicious. This one was sinful and not delicious, so we did not partake all that much.

After the unfortunate breakfast, we had a few hours to kill, so we used the navigation computer M bought to find Balboa Park. The navi is called Tom Tom, and I have to say that it was incredibly useful. Even when you make a mistake, it just recalculates the route and give you new directions. In just a few minutes, we were to the park and admiring the incredibly beautiful setting. Why can't our old World's Fairgrounds look like that? Amazing architecture, lovely landscaping, and even a perfect reflecting pool with blooming water lilies! We really enjoyed our time at the park, but pretty soon it was time to head over to the church.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

aside on the wedding theme. Our plan had been to rent a scottish cottage that sleeps about 10 for 2 weeks and merge the wedding/honeymoon with the wedding happening midway through, on a local mountain. Dress suggestions were Hiking boots, Aran sweaters, kilts, and the people could stay over at the cottage with us, sleeping abags on floor, full cooked breakfast and daily hikes required. No wedding presents, people just had to buy themesleves good Aran sweaters for the wedding photographs... ...we had lots of fun planning it and checking it out with the best man and bridesmades... 2 of whome were scottish and loved the idea of wearing their own kilts....