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We showed up in Santa Barbara on Thursday
afternoon for Joanna and Zack's wedding. The rehearsal dinner was
held at a nice place on the beach, but train tracks were right on
the other side of this area and Amtrak trains would pass by every so
often. Amelie was getting really excited because Naomi had taken her
on the train at Fashion Island, and even taught her to say
"toot-toot". So every time a train went by, she would ask for more
train and say, "toot-toot" in a very urgent sort of way. |
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Chris (Dan's son) was there, but Matthew
wasn't. Laura had gone blond for the last year, and Dino Jr.'s
daughter Danielle was also there. |
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There was a trolley to take us from the
Hotel Virginia to the church, so we told Amelie it was a train and
she was loving it. She kept going "toot-toot" and it was just
genius. |
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The wedding was held at a Greek church and
it was really nice. It was beautiful weather and they had a trio of
musicians playing, it was very cool. |
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Of course, I'm partial to female
ministers, so I was happy to see they were being married by a woman.
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Amelie was there wearing her best sunday
outfit. She was pretty good for the ceremony, but Naomi took her to
one side and let her run around a bit to keep her happy. |
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Here's Joanna being escorted down the
aisle by her dad Allan. |
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The bridesmaids and groomsmen looked
great. Julie actually made the bridesmaid's dresses. |
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Dan brought a super-cool 3-CCD High Def
video camera and taped the ceremony. Later, he took some video of
Amelie playing and edited it a bit with iMovie on his PowerBook to
burn us a DVD. It turned out great, and if anybody wants a copy
email me at
jeff@lorenzini.com. |
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The wedding party with the happy couple. |
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Laura and Julie after the ceremony.
Relieved it's finally over, I bet. |
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Julie and Allan, parents of the bride.
Allan actually selected the music we listened to during the
reception and he did a great job. |
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Amelie started boozing again during the
reception, and it had a predictable result. |
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Out like a light. One glass of wine and
she's asleep in no time. My dad was a great help the whole weekend
with Amelie. |
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The dinner and party afterwards was
awesome. They had a great salad and buffet, the music was good and
the people were ready to cut loose. |
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Amelie spent some quality time with
grandpa while Naomi and I hit the dessert tray. |
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The next day we drove around the wine
country up there, and we came across a farm raising ponies. We had
some carrots in the car so we had Amelie feed them to the horses.
She was really enjoying herself. |
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At the BBQ they had later that day at Zack
and Joanna's house, they had a pool table in their garage. Naomi and
I played a game of pool and she beat me. Note that Amelie is holding
the 3-ball. She wouldn't give it back.
Many thanks go out to Joanna and Zack
for inviting us to their wedding. It was a lot of fun.
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