Weddingpalooza 2015

"Let's just go to 'em all," Kate said.

"Really?  Every damn one of 'em?" Zach said.

"Yeah, why not?" she asked.  "My work is about to get bought out anyway by another nursery so I might as well use all of my days."

"Alright, I think I can swing it with my work, too," I said. "Let's look at some flights."

Weddings.  In 2015, we were invited to eight of them & only two were in San Diego county.  We'd have to save up & find flights around our busy schedule.  

We needed to get to:

• Fairfax County, Virginia
• Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
• Rancho Bernardo (San Diego)
• Washington, Maine
• Naperville, Illinois
• Bloomington, Indiana
• Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
• Mission Bay (San Diego) 

Pictured: Showing off our new T-shirt in Reston, Virginia: the first stop on Weddingpalooza 2015.

From early June to mid-October we were jet-setters, driving rental cars, staying at nice hotels & exploring many areas of the U.S. neither one of us had ever seen before.  

The trips were a lot of fun.  It was nice to get away from work & catch up with friends & family.  We weathered a tornado in Wisconsin, ate at a lobster pound in Maine, took a riverboat tour in Chicago, danced our asses off in a barn in Indiana & rode beach cruisers around golf courses in the rain in South Carolina.  

All of the travel & the inconsistent work schedule took a toll on Kate & I.  Being home for a few days, working two jobs & then catching another flight out of town & doing it all over again.  I don't know how people fly out for work every week.  

In our short taste of it, I realized why they call the airport a "terminal."  That's how you felt, waiting there, two hours early, half-awake, psyching yourself up for another connecting flight home.

But at least home, was back to San Diego.  Even when you were sad that the trip was over, you still looked up at the big board & saw that warm, familiar name.  

"Welcome to San Diego.  The current weather is seventy-two & partly cloudy," the stewardess always seemed to say when we touched down at Lindbergh Field.

Ah, I'm glad Kate & I chose a great place to live, work & play.