June 23, 2007

Today started out much better than yesterday! Our hosts, Gina and James served some amazing and unique muffins from a local muffin shop. I can only use two words to best describe these muffins "cheesecake center."Also we practiced keeping food away from their enormousbear-sized dog so that we could hopefully know what we were doing when close by actually bears.

After breakfast we drove up to Bethany's freshman year college roommate's wedding in Sac City, IA. The ceremony was short and sweet but it was the happenings after the wedding that are worth describing. Following the ceremony as we walked to our car, we found at least two SUV's with their back hatches open. I heard a familiar crack of a can and we realized the guests were tailgating in the church parking lot. Even at an Iowa wedding I could never have dreamt up this situation. It still is making me laugh.

On the drive from the church to the hotel, Bethany decided to roll down the window to get some landscape shots on her fancy new camera.Unfortunately, she chose the exact moment when we were passing a feedlot to roll down the window, so we drove the rest of the way to the hotel smelling like someone had left used diapers in the backseat of the car.When we got to the hotel, er, the Super Eight, we spent about twenty minutes waiting at the front desk for the attendant to materialize.She finally emerged from the basement where she had been "doing laundry" in order to check about 5 groups of wedding guests into the hotel.Apparently for $58 per night, the desk clerk is not included.

Things got back on track at the reception.Following the wedding party's entrance to the polka song, "In Heaven there is no Beer," we were told that on the way to the reception the wedding party had stopped off so that the groom could have a celebratory pee in the corn.Most of the wedding party quickly followed him into the cornfield to "use it" as well.Unbeknownst to them, the wedding photographer felt that this was part of the proceedings and photographed the groom along with his "peers", both male and female.