Just like Memento

Wow, when we decided to make the weekend after Otis's A&P final a sort-of vacation, I never figured it would be so jam-packed that I would actual miss my first daily posting in weeks. So here's is a trip backwards in time, all the way back to Friday night...

I just finished posting two big-ticket items on eBay: Otis's wedding ring and my sidecar rig. She has no further need for the former, and I obviously haven't been using the latter, so we are trying to convert them into some ready cash. Wish us luck!

This morning, we scootered down to the Pike Place Market for the Magic Nuptials: it was the real deal. There were a slug of people from the Clark College crowd there as well as a bunch of the street performers from the market. Scotty and company erected a sort-of maypole / circus tent apparatus and the ceremony was held right in the middle of the cobblestone street; they even recruited a kid from the crowd to be ring-bearer. (Oh, yeah, there was a crowd - a bunch of locals and tourists who couldn't believe there was a real, live wedding happening right on the street.) It was actually a moving and honest ceremony as well as being funny: both Scotty and Becky were obviously sincere and in love.

Links to unedited quick pix: the couple with a busker before the ceremony; setting up; good shot of Becky; Scotty saying his words; Becky saying hers.

We got in late last night after the play in Portland. We hit a backup near Centralia and it literally took us an hour to go two miles. I did not get upset, though, because I had expected what we would indeed find when we finally made it to cause of the tie-up: one car flipped over on its top in a ditch, the other facing the wrong way on the freeway and similarly crunched, gurneys and paramedics about, and so forth. Those people had a bigger crimp in their evening than we did.

The Portland trip was a real kamikaze run: down just in time for a late lunch, a quick tour of the new building at Clark, and then over to Portland for some Shakespeare. A bit of pad thai afterwards and we were back on the road. Thirteen hours gone, seven hours on the road. We'll have to stay a little longer next time.

That's about it - we're back on the beam. Busy week coming up, and my Hilo trip starts in less than seven days. maybe we'll have to have a good luck drink with everyone on Friday night!