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We made a movie!
In case you don’t have the patience to slog through all twelve zillion pictures from our wedding day photobooth, Gene and I made a little movie out of them. (You can also see them in photostrip form here.) The song is “I Hate Camera” by The Bird and the Bee. Enjoy!
Honeymoon V: Salt Lake City
Midnight in Salt Lake City. Gene realized he needed his phone charger from the car and went out for it. When he got back in, he said “You need to come see this.” Incidentally: Salt Lake City? Not what you’d expect. Sure, they’ve got the giant Mormon temple compound at Temple Square, with dozens of … Continue reading
Honeymoon IV: Car Camping
We toured the Deschutes Brewery in Bend and spent two nights camping in Eastern Oregon. I won’t get into those, because we were perfectly happy and it’s impossible to be interesting about perfect happiness. (Unless you are Dorothy L. Sayers and writing Busman’s Honeymoon. But I am no Sayers.) We drove across Idaho, where we … Continue reading
and a ‘no’
Okay, so we didn’t get that house. Good! That means we get a little while longer to be smushed into this apartment together. (It’s actually a big apartment, but with all our stuff there isn’t a lot of space for humans to move around in. Result: we are smushed.) I like being smushed, it promotes … Continue reading
my yellow yes
I don’t know whether we’re going to get this Alameda house we’re crushing on. But I do know this: yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon, Michele and I watched a man pee into the gutter at Valencia and 21st Street, heedless of the several dozen pedestrians dodging his flow. In fact, we nearly received a … Continue reading
Honeymoon III: Crater Lake
We drove to Crater Lake and arrived around dinner time — and not just for us. The area was swarming with more mosquitoes than I’ve ever seen in my life. (We found out later this is because the valley is basically a lake with a thin layer of soil on top. There is a 14-inch … Continue reading
Honeymoon II: Bear trouble
Our first night camping was spent in Jedediah Smith campground, where a cat-burglar bear had apparently been wreaking havoc. We were warned in no uncertain terms never to leave any food or scented lotion or anything outside the bear box, not even in the trunk of the car. That’s the bear box off to the … Continue reading
Wedding photobooth pictures are up!
You can find them here. Some of my favorite moments: 1. Any time an actor gets in the booth. (I’m lookin’ at you, Dan, Ash, Mel and Sean.) 2. The moment when our niece Allegra realizes she can do different poses in different pictures. 3. The moment when my brother-in-law Geoff gets in and immediately … Continue reading
Housing interlude
We looked at another house in Alameda and fell in love all over again. My initial objection to this little island paradise — that it isn’t San Francisco, basically — kind of evaporated on our trip when I spent time in quiet idylls such as sleepy Bend, OR; storm-silenced Boise, ID; and the bath-water-warm midnight … Continue reading
Honeymoon I: Mendocino
Our first day of the honeymoon saw the introduction of our trip-long theme of eating only at breweries. We started at Bear Republic Brewery in Healdsburg. All the locals on the restaurant patio and passing by outside seemed to know each other, which made me believe we’d discovered the fabled Small Town America. (This conviction … Continue reading