Wedding weekend

Wedding Recap

Written May 4:

Dear Friends,

After the red-eye flight via Charlotte, we’re here in Columbus in a downtown office tower-turned Hotel LeVeque. I mean, just turned. We may be among the first customers. Men were painting around the elevators as we stepped in. But first, my suitcase was “delayed.” That’s American Airlines’ word for “we kept your bag in Sacramento because …” Maybe because my mac was inside. Maybe because it was magenta. Maybe because the flight weighed too much and some of the bigger bags "had" to be held back. Whatever the reason, we got the impression that this happens deliberately and often, that it is not the airline’s intention to get every passenger and every bag to their destination on time. It was frustrating. It is over. My bag arrived, via Phoenix, and it was in my room when I got back to the hotel at 10 p.m... Oh, the experience did not do one thing to make me think the airline cares about the customer.  But I do have my pajamas.

For a while I fumed about how I might have to dress up my jeans and running shoes to wear to the wedding. Then I decided to make the best of the afternoon and (forget the jet-lag!) uber-ed to lunch at Northstar Café in the Near North neighborhood. Things got even better when my dear friend Linda joined me. Then the family had delicious, laughing Italian takeout for dinner at Mary and Bob’s. 

It was a fuming, frustrating, fabulous family day.

Love,
k

Written last night (Sunday):

Patrick, Steph and I just got back from  Gretchen and Rich’s wedding in Ohio an hour or so ago. I am more and more deeply grateful for my family — as it grows! So many people told me how much they love my sister's family -- and therefore me too! The wedding was in the most beautiful “churchy” church — Our Lady of Victory in Marble Cliff, which is a pocket of Columbus that was — and still is, I think — near a marble quarry. Here are some photos.

Love,
k