Sunday, 6:30am…the alarm goes off. Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45 to head to the U District Budget car rental to pick up the Mercury “El hugeness” for the ride out to PT today. 9:45am. Everyone in and we’re on the road! I’m not driving…I’m riding bitch in the back seat. It’s cool. I’m very little. And…off to in and out of sleep for the ride down. No, I’m listening and I hear all of the stories and conversations on the way down…it’s just that my eye lids are too heavy to hold up right now…it’s pretty warm in here and after 2 hours my ass starts to hurt a bit…but we’re almost there!
Mike and Kim got married on Sunday July 12, 2008 at this beautiful park in Port Townsend. It was a perfect day neither too hold nor too cold. The sun was shining and the friends and family were gathered…
There were “games”. We were told this in advance; however, none of us were quite prepared for the “hit the orange with the potato in the panty hose tied around your waist hanging between your legs” race that took place.
Nasty Nate rocked it out during the first few heats…his hand gently gripping his panty hose, swing that potato with dead on accuracy shooting off like a rocket across the park. He was beaten out later by Mike Catts who went on the win the series with an around the tree and under the truck shot that sent the crowd flying off their park benches. In a later interview Nasty claimed that the reason he fell to Catts was because his orange fell to pieces after his first few rounds of whacking…
Awww… aren’t they a cute couple? Here is the big announcement for the serving of the personal mini wedding cakes. Of course these ended up in each of their face a few moments after this photo was taken. It kind of gave me flash backs to cake fights in the crew bar…or maybe flash forwards since I’m headed back to the war of left-over-flying-food in just a few days!
Mike announced that it was almost time to do the “wedding thing”. They all went off to change and I headed to the place to get out the guitar and get ready. We all gathered on the gazebo and did the thing. Oscar’s speech was great. There were a bunch of other words thrown about from friends and family, the kissed and we all went “Awww!” Then we went back to hanging out in the park.
After a while we cleaned and packed things up and all headed into town to meet for drinks at the local brewery. I ended up riding home with Mike Dodge to keep him company, never getting to cash in my “bitch ticket” that I had earned on the way down in the rental. But that’s okay. Mike and I had a good hang drinking some coffee at the ferry terminal, chatting and listening to good music on the way home. It was a great day for sure!
Congratulations Mike and Kim!!! We love you!!!
Epilogue
The next morning the alarm goes off at 6:30am… Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45am to return the Mercury “El hugeness” to the U District Budget Rental place. The day a head…the mission completed.
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