Sue Ann’s wedding

Sue Ann is now married.  Last weekend we flew to Atlanta, where we rented a car and got a free upgrade! Wahoo. We got a two door Altima, very speedy, very bad for the 30 cops along the Atlanta highways.  Drove up to TN and made it on time for the bridesmaids lunch.  This whole thing brought so many memories of when I was getting married.  That Friday, Greg went into town with his dad while I stayed at the house with Greg’s mom.  We sat by the lake, took the sun, the breeze, the colors, the trees in.  Such a great time.  Later in the afternoon, Greg and I took a nap. I recall his words: set the alarm to 4:30.  It was 4pm when we laid in bed, I thought to myself: I will wake up in 5 min.  Next thing I hear is Greg’s dad knocking on the door saying: are you all ready? It’s 10 to 5pm.  SHOOT! The wedding rehearsal was at 5pm.  Quickly woke Greg up, my heart was pounding like if I had had a nightmare.  Got ready and as fast as we could, we made it to the yacht club.  Turns out they were waiting on other people so we weren’t that late.  I guess I need to mention this, I hadn’t had time to shave my legs and I was wearing a dress with really high heels.  Everyone wanted to see the high heels while I wanted to hide in embarrassment.

Well we went off to the house where some of Greg’s relatives were waiting.  Walked into the house and Greg’s aunt said:  That’s a big nice birthday present (while moving her head towards the garage).  I had walked into the garage earlier and had seen a really nice car parked inside, I asked Greg’s mom about it, but she said: I don’t know who’s it is.  Things clicked in my head rather quickly.  I distracted Greg by saying, your present was out on the table but they probably put it away to wrap it.  Greg asked if he was going to like it, all I said was: yes, I think so.

Greg’s dad: let’s go to the rehearsal dinner in your car Greg.

Greg: dad we don’t fit in our car, it’s a sports car and it’s only a two door, we don’t fit.

Greg’s dad: yes we fit, you’re driving, let’s go.

Walked outside, keys were handed to Greg.   Greg walked over to the Altima and tried to open it, it wasn’t working. Eventually he turned around and saw that the beeping car was in the garage.  His reaction wasn’t that intense.  He kept asking if the present was real.  It was a great surprise, and also a great blessing. Since the Subaru is currently getting really bad mpg and getting pretty old.

The rehearsal dinner went well, low key  but nice.  Saturday was a very busy day, got up very early to accompany Sue Ann to the rental house so we could get our hair and make up done.  LaOra did our make up and a lady did our hair.  It was a beautiful (despite a little rain) great day.  The wedding went smoothly during the ceremony.  A few things leading up to it, like the arch falling and the flowers not being done but it all turned out great!

Sunday was a bit chaotic, went to church, then home, then look at homes.  We looked at a few houses at National in Tennessee, they were really pricey and probably not too convincing.  Greg and I have always wanted a house on a lake and I think we are willing to sacrifice a lot of things to fulfill the dream.  However a lot for 500K and still a house to build is not going to work for us.  

After that I had to rush to drive to Atlanta (CRAZY!!) made it after a series of unfortunate events like trying to find a gas station around the airport before returning the car and the gps telling me one thing while the signs were saying something else.

Made it to Houston and the car had 2 flat tires, plus the spare which was also flat! Great welcome event back to Houston.  Fortunately my awesome husband had called USAA to arrange people meeting me at the parking lot to change my tire, then they followed me to the gas station so they could put air in my tires.  It was a very eventful day.