Here is a re-cap of the recent adventures of Jim and Claire. Last weekend, we headed up to chilly, rainy New England to celebrate the marriage of Paul and Natalie. Our flight, due to the horrible weather, was delayed, and, fortunately, Andrea and Danny let us stay at their place for the night. We surprised Jessie and Steve (who were coming over for dinner) and had a fun time re-living the old days in Arlington. It was just like 2003--delicious food, flowing wine, lots of laughter--a great start to a great weekend!
On Saturday we mapped out an alternate route through New Hampshire, which, I'm sure many of you saw on the news, was being flooded out by persistant, torrential rain storms (also the cause of our delayed flight). Ever the mapster, Jim had several routes figured out on the map of New Hampshire that we bought at a corner store, but was thwarted by various washed out roads. We took backroads through the woods and saw rushing streams and beautifully colored leaves on the way. Although it was supposedly a "muted" fall, after looking at Fort Worth all summer (it's brown), we were really impressed by the beauty of backwoods New Hampshire. It was almost better, we think, that we had to go around our usual route, because we saw so much that we probably would have missed otherwise.
Finally, after about four and a half hours, we made it to Walpole...and, being the ill prepared people that we are, didn't have a map or directions to the apple orchard. We got country directions from a local (go left a the big yellow house, make a right at the second dirt road and cut across that property, then go up two hills and around the corner) and we arrived in the pouring down rain!
When we got there, it was naptime at the lodge. All of the babies were getting ready for the big night, so we had to quietly celebrate being there and, by the time we got there it was practically time for the wedding anyway, so we just went upstairs and rested, before whipping into our wedding best and heading over to the apple orchard.
It was a beautiful wedding. The sun came out while Paul and Natalie were saying their vows and Jim got a little teary eyed when he saw Paul start up. After the wedding, we took a hayride through the apple orchards (minus the hay) and enjoyed the great music and food. Jim and Kristian shared a dance (they've got moves!) and the champagne was flowing.
The good times, unfortunately, had to end and we capped the weekend off with a nauseating drive back through the hills of New Hampshire (not such a good mix with the champagne and lack of sleep...it was fetal position all the way home for me). After fifteen hours of traveling, we made it back to Fort Worth, worn out, but happy to have gotten to spend time with so many good friends. And to those of you we missed, we'll be back soon! We have the Boston itch and we're already making plans for a longer visit ASAP!
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