Let’s go back to Princeton
At commencement time,
Sample each reunion:
That’s the life for mine!
Ramble round the campus,
Full of jollity,
Our location for celebration
Is New Jersee.
Off to my 5th Reunion back at Princeton! ^_^
Sigh…another Reunions has come and gone. The chance to see good friends; to eat drink and be merry in the places of my college years; and in a surprising twist, a chance for me to close out unfinished business. It was an…interesting and ironic Reunions. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
In one Reunions, I patched things up with one ex-girlfriend, and found my own closure with another. Of course, finding myself hanging out with and having a good time with Sarah was completely unexpected. Singing “I Want You to Want Me” at Nicole with Pat was also unexpected, but it gave me a sense of freedom.
I got the chance to see old friends, get numbers of friends in Seattle I need to hang out with. And I finally felt things being right. Especially at the end of the night.
I had a lot of eye opening conversations. There were quite a few great memories that I reminisced over. And there were new memories, and friends, made.
I was a bit aprehensive about this reunions. I was worried how things would turn out. This was far beyond my wildest dreams. It was pure, unadulterated…awesome.
Let’s go back to Princeton
At commencement time,
Sample each reunion:
That’s the life for mine!
Ramble round the campus,
Full of jollity,
Our location for celebration
Is New Jersee.
So this past weekend, Nicole and I were down in southern New Jersey for the wedding of our friends Chuck and Rebecca. It was a pretty good time. It did mean there was a lot of driving involved, but hey, it was worth it.
So the trip started Friday afternoon with Nicole picking me up at 4:50. From there, we drove over to Kendal square to pick up two of our friends, Dan and Emily. Once we got moving (Emily was late due to T stupidity), we started to make our way out of Cambridge. Unfortunatly, it would take us about an hour or so to get out of Cambridge/Boston. Traffic was just terrible, but we once we were out of the metro Boston area, things were fine.
The ride down itself was actually pretty nice. I spent a bit of time playing Mario Kart and Tetris on my DS with Dan and Emily. We also talked a lot, and had a good time making our way down. Dan gave us some funny insight into the world of consulting, and we just generally had a pleasant trip. Upon getting to the hotel, we all went to our rooms and passed out.
The next morning Nicole and I got up early so that we could shower and grab some of the free breakfast. While we were down there, we ran into Chuck and the best man. (I realized that I’m probably one of the last people to talk to Chuck as a single man. That’s pretty cool.) After a quick breakfast, we headed back to the elevator and ran into the men’s bridal party as they were getting ready to go. This turns out to be a very fortunate thing, as they colors of the bridal party included maroon, and I was leaning towards wearing a maroon shirt under my suit. (That would have been…awkward)
So Nicole and I headed back up to our room and got ourselves dressed. Well, Nicole got dressed and I tried to iron my shirt. The iron the hotel provided was not very good, and I was having serious issues getting my shirt pressed. (I’m only bringing this up because Nicole likes to get on razz me about my iron, and the two of us along with Pat and Mel were having a good laugh about it) Thankfully, I was able to find a way to overcome this and get myself dressed. Nicole and I got ourselves downstairs and Emily and Dan joined us shortly thereafter.
Soon all four of us found ourselves at the site of the wedding. A rather quaint little ballroom type place. The wedding was outside in a covered area and there were heaters there to thankfully keep us warm. It was a beautiful setting just by a lake, and I was actually very impressed by it. There were quite a few Princetonian’s in attendence, many of them friends from the Band and/or Campus Club, so it was also a bit of a reunions of sorts.
The ceremony itself was a very quick Catholic service. The procession started at just after 11:30 and we were heading to the Cocktail hour at 11:59. I actually joked with Nicole that there must have been some “you’re married in 30 minutes or less or your next one is FREE” deal going on. But it was a very nice ceremony.
After the Ceremony, the guests headed down to the wine cellar for cocktail hour. At first, I thought that it might be a bit…early for a cocktail hour, seeing as how I’m generally against drinking before…oh..say…three in the afternoon. But it turned out that it was really more of a wine and cheese hour, so that was cool. It was actually very nice, I got a chance to catch up with people and eat finger foods, and just generally soak in the moment.
At about one we all went into the Ballroom and awaited the bride and groove to come in and for the reception to really get going. The reception itself was a lot of fun, but for the sake of getting me to bed at a reasonable hour, I’m going to give the highlights in bulletted form:
So yeah, that was the reception in a nutshell. It was a really good time. After that, Nicole and I headed back to the hotel (Dan and Emily hitched a ride with the maid of honor back to Boston) and just kind of…well..vegged.
The next day, Nicole and I headed back up to Princeton. It was a pretty uneventful trip, except for a quick detour to Princeton for a hoagie. We actually came up with the idea indipendently and decided that it was a sign we had to go. We also called Patrick and he joined us which was really great. But other than that, it was an uneventful trip. back. Overall, the trip was great, and I’m really glad we got to share it with Chuck and Rebecca.
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So this past weekend, a bunch of us travelled back down to Princeton to Catch the Brown vs. Princeton football game. It was my first time down to Princeton since Reunions, and it was a really great weekend. There was band. There was football. There was a whole bunch of hoagies. There were undergrads. There were alums. There was even time for a little bit of napping. So scratch the “really great” part, I’m going to have to describe the weekend as “Glorious”.
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