On the 26th of August I woke up to be greeted by Maude the cat, who had been sleeping cozily against me. We played a bit, but then soon set out. First stop was the Starbucks opposite, where I got my first raspberry coffee ever. It was very pink, and had no coffee flavour nowhere near it. Fun experiment, but I'll stick to the real thing for now! :-)
Soon we were on the road again in the Mustang, top down, blasting John Denver's "Take me home country road" from the speakers. The roads were used by proper US style trucks and school-busses, and since we were in the state where cannabis is more legal than in The Netherlands, we encountered some of that too. But mostly it was just beautiful scenery.
At the Nederland city limit sign we stopped again, and took a mandatory selfie together, before heading into the wedding. Jon and Andrea were busy getting all dressed up somewhere, and the place itself was buzzing. That didn't deter the super cute little chipmunks from running around the place and delighting us all, though!
The wedding itself was a cute and lovely event. Albeit ironical, for me. There I was, sitting with 2 used wedding rings, at the wrong wedding for those rings, only 3 days after having received the one back...
But that didn't influence the beauty of the ceremony and I swiftly tucked them safely away. Andrea arrived, being given away by her mom and dad, and preceded by the lovely little flower girl and her mom, Andreas best friend. Jon was looking all scrubbed up in his suit, ready to receive his soon to be wife. And lo and behold, only a few minutes later, under the flower garland, it had come to pass. A newly married couple came into existence, and the party could start!
There was plenty of space, and plenty of Dutch and American sweets, food, cake, drinks. And the newly wedded couple looked very pleased with themselves.
When the party died down some hours later in the evening, me and uninvited but very welcome guest Ilja said goodbye to other uninvited but welcome guest Halie, who decided at the last minute not to join us to Las Vegas anyway :-p and we started the first leg of our little road trip, driving into the night.
Soon we were on the road again in the Mustang, top down, blasting John Denver's "Take me home country road" from the speakers. The roads were used by proper US style trucks and school-busses, and since we were in the state where cannabis is more legal than in The Netherlands, we encountered some of that too. But mostly it was just beautiful scenery.
At the Nederland city limit sign we stopped again, and took a mandatory selfie together, before heading into the wedding. Jon and Andrea were busy getting all dressed up somewhere, and the place itself was buzzing. That didn't deter the super cute little chipmunks from running around the place and delighting us all, though!
The wedding itself was a cute and lovely event. Albeit ironical, for me. There I was, sitting with 2 used wedding rings, at the wrong wedding for those rings, only 3 days after having received the one back...
But that didn't influence the beauty of the ceremony and I swiftly tucked them safely away. Andrea arrived, being given away by her mom and dad, and preceded by the lovely little flower girl and her mom, Andreas best friend. Jon was looking all scrubbed up in his suit, ready to receive his soon to be wife. And lo and behold, only a few minutes later, under the flower garland, it had come to pass. A newly married couple came into existence, and the party could start!
There was plenty of space, and plenty of Dutch and American sweets, food, cake, drinks. And the newly wedded couple looked very pleased with themselves.
When the party died down some hours later in the evening, me and uninvited but very welcome guest Ilja said goodbye to other uninvited but welcome guest Halie, who decided at the last minute not to join us to Las Vegas anyway :-p and we started the first leg of our little road trip, driving into the night.
