T minus One

[The boring countdown to the wedding continues...]

The day before the wedding:

Brother:

He arrived about 24hrs after my parents. Had already provided information for him to take the airport shuttle to the hotel. Was puzzled about why he was so quiet: turns out that his phone needed to be manually switched to whatever frequency/system used here in the U.S., so it took him a while to realise that, then to play around and figure out how to do that switching. But once that was achieved - yahooo! Technology is a wonderful thing, when it works!

Kosh:

Remember the whole crisis about him having/not having the necessary days off? Well, at T minus One, he was working, but one he got off work, he'd be off for THREE WHOLE DAYS! But... had no idea *when* he'd actually be able to leave the hospital.

This was the only major uncertainty of the whole weekend.

And boy oh boy.. what an uncertainty!! Even tho he did manage to leave slightly earlier than feared, he still needed to pack [I'd suggested he pack the night before, but that's too much advance planning for him! And he was on call too anyway, sh*tty schedule and all... so I tried to pack for him, but, there was only so much I could do...]! Finally got all our sh*t together, hopped into the car, got onto the highway.

Except that the highway was a parking lot.

No kidding.

I expected heavy traffic and all... but I did *not* expect a parking lot.

So we ended up paralleling the highway on sideroads, dealing with loads of traffic lights, desperately reading the roadmap to figure out our best route...

Finally made it back to the highway further along, and it was clear! Of course, reaching that place took us over an hour for what should have been like a 20min journey.

Ugh!

Arrived at the hotel. Greeted my parents and brother in lobby - they'd been waiting for over 30mins [but were aware of our tardiness, thanx to my brother being sms-able!]. Checked-in, dumped stuff in room, then hopped on the pre-booked hotel shuttle to get us to Kosh's sister's place.

Sure, we could have driven, but we both intended to imbibe in acheyhol, and since the hotel provided free shuttle service within the area, we took full advantage of it!


Meet & Greet:

Kosh's sis and hubby hosted a great bbq steak dinner accompanied by mucho of the acheyhol and plenty of the conversation. This also happens to be the first time the Naraneks and the H's meet: everyone seemed to survive the encounter. Amazing!

The hotel shuttle picked us back up at 1030pm. I was not even buzzing, so headed down to the hotel bar for another round of drinks. Eh. Not outstanding. But even tho my day the next day was only scheduled to start at 11am, there was going to have to be major coordination among all the parties involved... so headed up and hit the hay [hey!!] anyway.

Bored out of your skulls yet?? I have another three or so posts to go!