Vancouver Wedding Reception BBQ

I went up to Vancouver this weekend for a little wedding reception BBQ with my good friend Daniel. We have known each other for about 26 years now, so that's quite a while.

Vancouver at this time of year was a beautiful place. We had the chance to bicycle around the city for a few hour. From the beach boardwalk, you can see everything there is in Vancouver including the downtown skyline, Victoria Island, Stanley Park, the ski slopes, and the entire bay.

Here's a picture of the two of us after the BBQ, just hanging out again. I should try to dig up a picture of when we were about 5 years old and see how we have changed.




This is a small group I met (me, Daniel, Suzanne -- Daniel's wife, Hayden -- Tina's son, Tina -- who introduced Suzanne and Daniel, Janet -- my counterpart to Suzanne)

Manhattan Wedding

This weekend was another big wedding. It was huge... the biggest and most extravagant wedding I have ever seen. I was dressed down in my nice new suit since everyone was wearing a tux or a suit with a white shirt at least.

But the wedding was great. It was in Manhattan at a nice church uptown. The ceremony was rather traditional. After that, we headed on our party bus to the reception at a huge hotel ballroom in midtown Manhattan. There were three stations of appetizers before the meal and then there was an amazing band which played everything from Oldies to Hip Hop... and they didn't stop for 4 hours.




The bride was Liz's friend Allie, whom she knew from Mills, and the husband was new to both of us. It was strange that when I met Allie, she said, "Erik? Oh, Beans? I have heard so much about you." I guess my name precedes me.


The cake was interesting... a real cheese cake. We didn't get to have any, but I am sure that the couple will save a piece to eat on their one year anniversary.



Allie was a pretty wild girl I see.

 

Portland Wedding

I went to Portland this weekend this last weekend to witness the following lovely couple get married. The guy is Liz's cousin and though I didn't get a good chance to talk to him very much, I was really happy to meet him. The girl is his lovely wife now and it was great to meet her too.


And this is us. We spent the whole weekend up in Portland with Liz's family with non stop fun activites. There was bowling, dinners, karaoke, the wedding of course, lots of dancing, and also touring the rural parts of Portland.




It was a great weekend.

Moving sucks still...

Well, as of my last post, I was still living at my old place, but now I am completely moved out and not completely moved into the new place. I worked pretty hard to organize everything but there are still a few more things to put away and a few more things to throw away. And I have been dying to try out the new jacuzzi. I think that will be my reward for finishing with all this crap that I have to do.