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So how did you spend your weekend?
Thursday morning after breakfast on the road, Cristina and I began the drive to our mountain home in Idyllwild (above Palm Springs) with the intent to having a short 4 day mini-vacation...maybe cook a prime rib roast...
This is where we could look out the window at the fresh fallen snow, sit by a toasty fireplace, drink some hot coffee and read...and then about halfway to the 'I-15 ~ I-215 Interchange, we decided to change directions and drive due east for another couple of hours to Las Vegas....best laid plans and all that rot...
Got there about 4 in the afternoon and ended up staying at the Luxor...great room with a view of the strip...
Gambled a little, ate a lot...at an endless all-you-can-eat-all-day-buffet, saw several shows, and had a couple drinks....
Somehow we ended up in one of Vegas's numerous 24 hour Chapels (around 800 or so) and did the deed...after 8 years and waiting for her son to reach 18...now turned 20 last week...
It was a real hokey place that had 4 separate chapels (theme rooms) such as Hawaiian, Japanese, Italian and Etruscan...I called them Hokey 1, 2, 3 and Really Hokey No. 4.
We wanted a simple civil ceremony but had to stop the ceremony in the middle when the JP started 'In the Father...Son'......I stopped the ceremony and told her I was Jewish and didn't relish a conversion at this time...took her about 10 minutes to get her act together...so it finished OK.
Had pictures taken in each chapel...and was given a lei of flowers in the Hawaiian room and started laughing...told the photographer this wasn't the first time I had a fake lay...he didn't get the humor...Oh well
By the way, we had to get a marriage license and found that the Courthouse is open 24/7...
What I didn't tell you is that from the time we left home we began one of our many discussions about who to invite, where to have the reception...yada, yada, yada...
We finally said, screw trying to figure out the logistics, lets just do it and have a reception later on...probably at the Hershey Hotel (actually a big Victorian residence in Long Beach)...
So, as they say about the best laid plans...
That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
Thursday morning after breakfast on the road, Cristina and I began the drive to our mountain home in Idyllwild (above Palm Springs) with the intent to having a short 4 day mini-vacation...maybe cook a prime rib roast...
This is where we could look out the window at the fresh fallen snow, sit by a toasty fireplace, drink some hot coffee and read...and then about halfway to the 'I-15 ~ I-215 Interchange, we decided to change directions and drive due east for another couple of hours to Las Vegas....best laid plans and all that rot...
Got there about 4 in the afternoon and ended up staying at the Luxor...great room with a view of the strip...
Gambled a little, ate a lot...at an endless all-you-can-eat-all-day-buffet, saw several shows, and had a couple drinks....
Somehow we ended up in one of Vegas's numerous 24 hour Chapels (around 800 or so) and did the deed...after 8 years and waiting for her son to reach 18...now turned 20 last week...
It was a real hokey place that had 4 separate chapels (theme rooms) such as Hawaiian, Japanese, Italian and Etruscan...I called them Hokey 1, 2, 3 and Really Hokey No. 4.
We wanted a simple civil ceremony but had to stop the ceremony in the middle when the JP started 'In the Father...Son'......I stopped the ceremony and told her I was Jewish and didn't relish a conversion at this time...took her about 10 minutes to get her act together...so it finished OK.
Had pictures taken in each chapel...and was given a lei of flowers in the Hawaiian room and started laughing...told the photographer this wasn't the first time I had a fake lay...he didn't get the humor...Oh well
By the way, we had to get a marriage license and found that the Courthouse is open 24/7...
What I didn't tell you is that from the time we left home we began one of our many discussions about who to invite, where to have the reception...yada, yada, yada...
We finally said, screw trying to figure out the logistics, lets just do it and have a reception later on...probably at the Hershey Hotel (actually a big Victorian residence in Long Beach)...
So, as they say about the best laid plans...
That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
