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I’m off!

I’m heading out from the Charlotte airport tomorrow, flying through Dallas/Fort Worth and ending up in San Francisco, CA. I’ll be there just in time for the wedding festivities to begin apparently, starting with ice skating, dinner and potentially bowling with the bridesmaids (my kind of ‘bachelorette party’ ) on Thursday. Manicures and pedicures with the girls on Friday, following by the rehearsal/dinner. Then hair appointments (after which I will hopefully not resemble the ‘Steel Magnolias’ character I looked like after the last wedding I had my hair done for ) Saturday morning, before or after a wedding breakfast (have they always done these?), culminating in the wedding mass Saturday afternoon, following by a reception elsewhere (can’t remember where – hope someone is driving me…). I’ve been so blessed in the relationships of my closest friends – that is, I love all the guys my girlfriends have ended up with – and that makes the weddings so much easier, knowing that I can go into the wedding (and often participate as part of the wedding party) in full support of their relationship. And this wedding is no exception to that. (It was also be my first big Catholic wedding, which I’m very excited about!)

All of that to say that as of tomorrow I will be here:

To see these two wonderful people commit their lives to one another:

In this lovely church:

After all of that wedding craziness, I’ll be here for a week-long conference at Montana State University on bacterial biofilms (I’m psyched about it!):

I’m rooming with two other girls from the department here at this lovely establishment (which is walking distance from the university, or so I’m told):

The motel does have internet access, so I should be able to check in periodically – I thought we’d have time to go see Yellowstone National Park or something, but it looks like our time is pretty well taken up with conference stuff Hopefully I’ll be able to see something, like the Grand Tetons (which always makes me think of ‘That 70s Show’ and Kelso saying one of the girls had on a tube top and it was like ‘the Grand Tetons… in a tube top’ )

Maybe I’ll check in from the airports tomorrow – so no scary flying messages again from any of you engineers out there, ok?