Wedding Weekend

We've spend a good deal of the last 36 hours traveling, and now it looks like we're going to be spending more. Two of Mr. D's coworkers had their wedding in Charlottesville, VA on Friday. We flew out yesterday morning to Richmond, then drove the rest of the way to Charlottesville and met up with another of Mr. D's coworkers and her boyfriend (K&S) and the four of us went and toured Monticello. K & S were pretty hilarious, and kept cracking Canadian jokes (they are both Canadian) during the tour.

The wedding was gorgeous. The weather was perfect, and the happy couple were married just as the sunset behind the mountains at a vineyard. They had a great DJ, and everyone was dancing the night away - I even tricked Mr. D into slow-dancing with me several times. Mayhaps we had a bit too much to drink, as the couple hired a bus to take us to and from the vineyard, and both of us were a bit hungover this morning.

We rented our car for exactly one day, so had to be at the airport half an hour early to return the car, which we did exactly 2 minutes ahead of schedule. Then we went inside to print our boarding passes and realized that our flight was delayed for two hours. Yargh. So here we sit, instead of getting home by three, we won't get there until 5:30 or 6:00.

Sidenote: Those of us who were invited (only 8 of their coworkers (plus the partners) were invited) discussed the fact that the people who weren't invited to the wedding were complaining at work after the bride and groom left for Charlottesville. People. Seriously. The people who were invited were the ones that go out with each other for drinks after work. Not, as put it, the people you run into at the bar because they left first and didn't ask the rest of them. Now, I am all for being inclusive with wedding invitations, but, when you find out that you are not invited to something, you should not complain. No one was trying to hurt feelings, but there are always budgetary and space constraints. The couple was a member of two departments, and it's clear that they can't invite everyone from both departments without adding 50 people plus +1's to the guest list. Anyway, that's my two cents.