Rundown: Back to the states three weeks after returning to Chile for my buddy Nick's wedding!
Flew out of Santiago at 7PM on Wednesday, August 28th, hopped to Huston, then Minneapolis, then Detroit at midday. Nick's gregarious, good-timing Aunt Ann was so gracious to pick me up at the airport despite a unexpected flight delay and drive me five more hours clear up to Traverse City. Pulled into T.C. at 7PM Thursday, August 29th, after twenty-four hours of non-stop travel. Only a few schmucks are worth this. Nick Brown is one of 'em.
The boys were out on a sailboat in Grand Traverse Bay, off Power Island, already getting their sea legs. Aunt Ann passed me off to Ian's dad, who drove me out to Mission Peninsula. Ran out on a dock, and the fellas threw me in a dinghy and motored me to the boat! Felt like the John Candy movie, Planes Trains and Automobiles.
Happy to be back and stationary (besides the rocking of the boat). I hadn't seem my buddy Tony in six years or so. We had some catching up to do, and so we went into the wee hours of the night doing so. There may or may not have been skinny-dipping. Buncha dudes... that's weird.
Hard to tell in the morning how 'overboard' one was the night before when you're on a boat. Everything is listing and rocking. Sometimes it cancels itself out, like negative interference of wave anti-nodes, but other times...
Peeled ourselves out of our berths and on deck under cloudy skies spitting a touch of rain. Within an hour the clouds had vanished leaving sunny skies and a fabulous northern Michigan summer day.
Spent the next day doing all the pre-wedding festivites. Got to see a lot of old friends, Nick and Ian's families, whom I haven't seen in years. Got to wear blue shirts with my buddies. I don't know how we got so lucky to randomly have been put together in dorms all those years ago. These are among the best friends and people I know. Just don't tell them that. It'll go to their heads. Jerks.
On game day a trolley drove us all over Traverse City taking shots. We had a ball. Can't beat getting dressed up with all your buddies and being driven around town with a stocked cooler.
More photos, fun, and time to catch up. Shot photos all over. Parks, waterfront, abandoned buildings, and forests.
Well done Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Look at those beautiful children! Sorry about the middle one though. Your daughters make up for his oddity.
After a beautiful ceremony we ate, drank, and danced through the night.
The SO's, Breanna and Jesse were also in good form and tearing up the dance floor.
And a good time was had by all. The next morning I caught a ride back down to Detroit and flew back south! Round Trip Travel Time: 96 hrs. Total Time in T.C: 96 hrs. Time well spent.
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