Holly: We are taking a short break from our Doctor Who challenge, mostly for two reasons: 1. because we are dinguses and picked a really, really bad month to do a 30 day challenge, hence the reason why we are so flipping behind, and 2. because we wanted to share the tale of the awesome weekend we had. We will resume our challenge starting tomorrow.
Yesterday morning Kelly and I woke up semi-earlyish and traveled to Elizabethtown, in the midst of some spotty rain and some fairly windy roads. The occasion: a wedding that we've known about for quite some time now. The bride is a friend of ours from Berea, and she worked with Kelly for a while at the Learning Center. We weren't sure of the goings on in E-town, as known by Kentucky folk, so we left early and arrived at our hotel at about 11. The wedding wasn't until 2:30. Our first eyebrow-raiser is that we did not have cell phone service. ANYWHERE. Naturally, we needed something to do for a few hours, so we asked the front desk for a mall or something in which to occupy ourselves. En route to said mall we found a Goodwill, so needless to say, we stopped. Pretty rockin' Goodwill if I do say so myself.
We got to the mall and Kelly took it upon herself to try to find an outlet so she could plug in her cell phone and try to find where we were going, since, at this point, we still did not have cell phone service (it wouldn't be until just outside of Danville coming home that we finally got back in range). We ate at an Italian express place and then shopped around for a bit. Pretty decent mall; nothing like Fayette, but it got the job done and we enjoyed ourselves despite our lack of contact with the outside world.
Kelly: I will continue this story. After we left the mall we decided to make our way to the church, after writing down directions on how to get there. We were on this main stretch of road and the directions told us to go on a bypass, so we found one and were like "uh...is this the right one?" We went on it, not really knowing if it was the right one, but after about a mile or two we started seeing signs for where we were supposed to go. Not going to lie, we were pretty amazed. So then we arrived at the church, watched the wedding, celebrated and then decided to check into our hotel. We checked into our hotel, which was a very lovely Best Western in Elizabethtown (the wedding was in a small town outside of the city) and went from our hotel to the reception. Unbeknownst to me at this point, I left my wallet in our hotel room. The wedding and reception were very lovely and we had a blast at the reception! Lots of good food, a TARDIS cake and lots of dancing. We're still sore from yesterday, needless to say. It was then I realized I left my wallet at the hotel and was worried that I left it at the desk when I checked in. We stayed at the reception until about 7PM, then decided to go to Target and malinger around. We got back to the hotel around 8 that evening and relaxed in the hotel, watched Big Bang Theory and got milkshakes from Wendy's.
This morning we woke up in our hotel, had breakfast and left around 10:15 this morning. While we were driving yesterday it dawned on one of us that we should stop in Danville on the way home to poke around. So we did. It was a lovely day today, a bit warm, but a nice breeze and the sun was out. We walked around Centre's campus, had lunch at a local coffee joint and enjoyed the nice day. We've been home since 2 this afternoon and are still reeling from this really fun and awesome weekend. I don't think either of us are ready to go back to work tomorrow. I like living here in Berea; I love my church, my friends and my job but sometimes it's nice to just get away, especially since we haven't really had the chance to in a while. We always enjoy our getaways when we get them, and this one was no exception.
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| Post day-in-the-car, post mall trip, post realization-of-no-cell-phone-service, post more-driving, exasperated that we actually made it to the church and actually made it ON TIME! |
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| A prayer for the new family :) |
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| "You may now kiss the bride." |
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| The best groom's cake in the history of groom's cakes |
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| Us and the blushing bride. Apologies for the grossness; we had all just finished dancing like mad :) |
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