Daniel Cody - “Left on the Lake”

Jenny and I finally picked our caterer last week, which was probably the biggest stress of our wedding, so we’re pretty happy. We also picked the spot for our wedding ceremony last night, it’s pretty sweet and Jenny is really happy about it.. It’s in a park on the East side of Milwaukee overlooking Lake Michigan. Pretty much a perfect spot, and it’s available! Now all we need is to find someone to actually marry us here in the US. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal, but we’re having a hard time finding someone to perform the ceremony. Hopefully we can get that last big stressful event over with this week :)

Yesterday was a really nice warm day too, and while we were checking out our ceremony spot, we decided to see how far it was between the ceremony spot and the reception hall.

Of course it was the first really nice weekend day of the year here, so all the kids were cruising Lincoln Memorial Drive (the road that runs along the lake here, popular cruising spot) showing off their subwoofers and tricked out Acura’s (with wings!). About half way down, we noticed it was really backed up, and it turns out the power was out on the East side yesterday so none of the stoplights were working. Mix together about 500 kids cruising, nice weather, and lack of traffic lights, and well.. It was pretty crazy. The road was backed up for miles on, which the kids liked as it let them go even slower than they normally would, and actually have more than a two word conversation with the girl walking down the sidewalk they were cat calling.

Of course, us having the top down and music blaring in our car made it look like we were cruising too, even though we were about 10 years over the average age, and in the boring process (to the kids at least) of figuring out the mileage between our wedding and reception spots. So we pretty much fit in, which was interesting..

Last Thursday, we met a few friends from out of town at a bar on Water Street, which is frequented by college 20 year olds and for the most part considered a ‘meat market’. It’s probably about the first time in three or four years that I’ve been to the bar like that, and the experience instantly transported me back to my own college days when a bar like that was the norm. The overcrowding. The drunken frat boys doing Jagermeister shots. The drunken women throwing themselves over equally drunk strangers. Ahh, those where the days! ;)

So we had a pretty youthful weekend between hanging out at a college bar and cruising with the teenagers. Kind of a reminder of what it was like to be young, and belonging in those situations - realizing now that growing up isn’t always a bad thing ;)

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