Wedding Voyage 2011 - The beginning of the middle

This is guest blo­gess Sab­rina bring­ing you part two of Wed­ding Voy­age 2011.  Brandi and Brian didn’t want the blog to go from first leg to “hey, it’s over!” and so Brian asked me to write some­thing up so Brandi could stress about other (though less impor­tant than blog­ging) things.

This is the view you get when escort­ing Ziggy.

After the Great Beer Explo­sion of 2011, we mean­dered to Cold­stream.  By mean­dered I mean that, aside from clean­ing up the worst of the beer spray and a fight with a gas pump in Rev­el­stoke, we drove straight here.  We arrived in the early after­noon in a bit of a daze (that didn’t have too much to do with the beer) to a very warm recep­tion from Aunty Kathy, Uncle Dave, Cousin Lisa and dog Molly.  After hap­pily hang­ing out on the deck, we had a won­der­ful din­ner and then early bed.

Today a trailer full of tables, chairs and a bar­beque arrived.  A lit­tle later on, the two huge tents were set up.  We are happy to report that if rain does dare to fall on the wed­ding day, there will be enough room for every­one under the tents which means I don’t have to fig­ure out how to cheat at draw­ing straws.  Dave is tend­ing to the yard every day, and it looks fan­tas­tic.  I can’t think of a more beau­ti­ful back­yard for a wedding.

Brandi had her con­sul­ta­tion hair appoint­ment and then kept me com­pany for the two and a half hours it took to dye parts of my hair blue while Brian went for lunch with his dad.  We came back in time to catch Aunt Cora, Sis­ter Bri­anne and her boyfriend Chris.  We hung out on the deck, played with hula hoops and worked on some of the wed­ding dec­o­ra­tions before din­ner at a local pub.

Brian has retired early for the evening, and I’m cheer­ing Brandi on while she writes her vows.  I’ve changed time zones twice on this trip and am quite tem­po­rally con­fused, so I’m not exactly sure what the offi­cial day count is at this point.  Nev­er­the­less, stay tuned!  More excit­ing news to follow!

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