Another Whirlwind of Activities

   Since Shane had never been there before, Ryan and I decided that we were all going to Cox Farm for the fall festivities on Thursday.  Our timing was a bit off because we were there when a lot of the field trip children were still there, but it was a lot of fun anyway.  One of the workers asked Ryan if he ever considered working for the Fields of Fear that they have after dark, and he got a lot of compliments on his Halloween themed hair throughout the day.  Ryan got more apple-butter and Shane got some cider for the house.  There was also the obligatory bag of caramel corn that came home with us.  I wanted to take a lot of the animals home with me, but they wouldn't let me, even if we could have fit one of the goats into the back of Shane's car.

  We left a bit late on Friday for the wedding near Richmond, but since there had been two hours of wiggle room built into the timing of the trip, we weren't worried.  We got on the road after grabbing something quick to eat in the car and started making good time.  We hit our first slowdown, but it didn't seem so bad.  Then we kept hitting slowdowns that just kept adding time.  At one point the GPS just added 40 minutes for no reason we could tell.  Our original planned time of arrival being a little after 3pm had now become 6:30pm and the cemetery closed at 6pm.  Ryan was scoping out lanes and we may have gone a little fast, but we got there right before it was going to close.  The guard at the gate seemed confused when we said we were there to marry someone, but the grounds keeper knew what was happening and let us in.

  The second we were going to start the ceremony, a train decided to roll through.  After we all took a quick train break it was time to start.  Victoria looked so beautiful.  Shane got some good Rocky Horror puns into the ceremonial words and everyone had a good time.

  It was then time to go to the AirBnB and have the reception.  The table décor was nice and spooky.  There were some snacks, but the main meal was really good Chinese food with Crumbl cookies for dessert.  To keep everyone going there were blood bag style energy drinks.  I had to call the party a bit short for our group because I had to work early in the morning.  I'm glad I got to go as Ryan's and Shane's plus ones.