Fabulous weather! Fabulous
wedding! Fabulous day!
I can't stop saying
"brother-in-law" all the time. It's real. It's actual.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially
recognized what our families have known for more than 20
years: these guys are family.
I can't even begin to describe how
happy I am.
Random incidents of fun at the
beach on the wedding day:
My cousin Cheryl (who is like 2 or
3 years younger than I am, that is, no spring chicken)
learned to kayak for the first time.
There was so much family around
that I kept tripping over it. Literally! I think if I
stepped on one more cousin I would've gotten 'em all. I
even caught one of my cousin Paul's young twin daughters
trying to go off on her own. Lucky catch.
For the hat contest, and just for
the joy of it, I had stuck a rainbow flag in my Plum
Island baseball cap. As soon as I got out of the car to
await the shuttle bus, the strong sea breeze
(understatement) blew my flag right out of the hat. I
kept trying to stick it back in but it kept blowing away.
My brother Thomas saved the day with duct tape. Another
duct tape moment!
The Beach Boys looked stunning in
their tuxes. They glowed.
Their state rep was as smiles and
enthusiasm as he spoke during the ceremony. I caught his
eye when I cheered the words "Commonwealth of
Massachusetts" as soon as the JP uttered them.
I got up to dance and left my new
bottle of SPF 45 sunscreen on Nancy's beach chair. When
we came back to our chairs the sunscreen was gone but
there was a plate of desserts on the chair. The miracle
of sunscreen into raspberry pastries!??
BTW, It's hard to dance on
sand.
SPF 45 is great by the way; I did
not get any sunburn whatsover despite spending the whole
afternoon on the beach.
Nancy and I swooned for
Ben
and Brad at the evening
cabaret. I thought only guys like show tunes this
much!
A guy I know from the cat shelter
was walking down the beach, his regular afternoon walk,
so I chatted with him. He said one of the piping plover
pair nesting on Salisbury Beach (just a little ways down
the beach from the Beach Boys) had walked right up to him
the other day when he didn't have his camera with him. He
said he came back with the camera a couple of times but
the piping plovers kept their distance. We can see the
predator exclosure and symbolic fencing from the
house.
We rode the shuttle bus back to the
parking lot with a group of coworkers from my
brother-in-law's previous job. They kept asking how I
know him so I got to say brother-in-law lots more
times.
