It's been busy around here! We went away for the weekend for Lue's granddaughter, Jen's wedding to Ryan. It was in Massachussets in a small town between Albany and Boston. . . .closer to Boston. It was a wonderful weekend and let me meet a lot more people on Lue's (Donna's sister)side.
Both Paul and Lue, have such large families. It was fun to get to know more of Lue's family. There were five Jennifers there, all related to Lue.
I did make a faux pas when I was first introduced to my first Jennifer - Lue's grandson's Robert's Jennifer. I had thought they were the parents of Lue's great grandson: six-months old Robert. (He was there too) But no. Jen and Robert are getting married next September.
I will explain why I made this goof. . . too many Jens. There was Jen - the aunt of the bride, and Lue's daughter. There was also Robert's Jennifer, mentioned above. The bride's name was Jennifer. Lue's other granddaughter Sam's girlfriend was named Jennifer. And then there was the mother of baby, Robert . . . .Jennifer. They started calling them by first and middle name. If I'd been there a little bit longer, it would have helped.
Friday morning, it poured. We started off from here in a rainstorm and it didn't let up for all six-seven hours it took us to get to As Paul said, "we sat in a parking lot" two times for half-hour periods. It rained and rained. We got to Howard's home about 4:30 in the afternoon. It was foggy and rainy the whole time we were there, but I did "see" how pretty it could be.
Paul's brother, Howard and his sister-in-law, Alicia's home in Lebanon, Connecticut. They have a farm with 40 head of Herefords. I didn't get to "meet" the cows, which I would have liked to have done, because of the weather.
They live on the Village Green in a house built between 1860-1870. Paul says - Sometimes the cows get out and end up there. There are two churches on it, walkways, jogging trail, around it, four historic sites - the War Office, an old historic house open to the public, a relatively new museum. So it's quite a long village green with houses and these sites around it. You can see across it, but I'm not sure you can see the end of it.
Saturday morning, Howard took us on a tour of it before we left to go to the wedding. He drove his car and we followed in ours. Then we followed him to Route 6, where we began the highway part of the trip. We got to the church in two hours - a good half hour before the 10:00 wedding. The wedding was in a typical New England type clapboard church. Very picturesque.
The weatherman didn't predict such good weather, but I don't think there could have been any better than we had. It was really perfect for this time of year. Sunny, warm. . . . the trees were magnificent. The grass was the beautiful soft green that you see in the early Spring or before the late Fall snow. The area reminded me a lot of Fall in the Albany area. (My past life.) I had forgotten how beautiful that was.
The reception was held at the Harrington Farm. Way up a mountainside ski area - the place was filled with mums, just at the height of their beauty, and other Fall plantings. The cocktail time was in a tent on the grounds. It had sofas, chairs and tables. The barn-room where the main part of the reception was, was rustic and huge. Very beautiful. (I'm going to try to get pictures up. I have such trouble with that, but I'll try.) They had a DJ playing all the kinds of music we like. Sinatra, Bennett, WMCA. LOL We sat with Lue, Jennifer and Garlen - her daughter and son-in-law, and Gail and Arthur - mother and father of the bride. Both Lue's daughters. Her son was also there with his family.
There were about 200 people at the reception, and the parents of the groom invited everyone back to their house for a bite to eat that night and enjoy an outside fire in the firepit. People rsvp'd with the wedding invitation. We did.
There were a lot of people. But not as many as the reception . . . thank goodness. There was a tent in the backyard, but it never would have held everyone if it had rained. They had a barn-garage, where they served one (of many, I'm sure) of those long, long subs, pizza, other things, but even that would have been iffy to hold everybody. People parked in a field next to their home. Even though it sounds like the country, the home was actually in town.
We had twenty+ people go out for breakfast on Sunday. That sent us all off with full stomaches. . . . well and contented. We traveled the six hour trip home through gorgeous country and got to pick up Gracie at the sitters around 5:00. Carol said Gracie enjoyed her time and felt comfortable enough to sit on Carol's husband's lap while he watched tv.
BTW - While at the wedding some people told me that read my blog. It does my heart good to hear that. They appreciated all the information I'd tell about different people.
So - that's what we did this weekend. How're you all doin?
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