Dave's Wedding

This past weekend, Devin and I made the long cross-country trek to Rome, New York to attend Dave and Kim's wedding. We left early Friday morning, flying to Atlanta, Georgia, where we met up with Zack, Zach, and Reuben, and all took the same flight to Syracuse (crazy enough, we paid about the same for our entire LAX-ATL-SYR ticket as they did just for the ATL-SYR leg). When we got to Syracuse, we met up with Neil and the airport, and then went to downtown Syracuse for dinner. We tried to go to a place called Dinosaur BBQ (on Rusty's recommendation)...well, it turned out to be a biker hangout (which Rusty knew and conveniently "forgot" to mention) with a wait of over an hour for a table. So we found somewhere else to eat, which actually had the Yankees game on (I miss New York!!). We then returned to the airport to pick up Jimmy, and in our rented minivan, all seven of us headed for the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, where the wedding was being held. Well, it being a casino, and with lots of our friends attending the wedding, we of course stayed up until 5am. On Saturday, we pretty much got out of bed in time to shower and get dressed for the wedding.

The actual wedding was at a church in Rome, NY, where Dave and Kim grew up. The actual wedding was very nice, and the weather couldn't have been any better. The reception was back at Turning Stone at the Golf Club. It was amazing! They first had a reception outside with drinks and hors d'oeuvres, complete with an ice sculpture of the Space Shuttle and launch tower! We then went upstairs for a sitdown dinner (filet mignon AND salmon!) and all of the typical wedding festivities. The wedding ended at midnight, after which we all headed back down to the casino. Devin and I had a 6:30am flight (part of why we got such a cheap fare), so we stayed up until the taxi came to pick us up at the hotel. Needless to say, we slept away pretty much all of Sunday!! It was great to see everyone though, the wedding was beautiful, and Kim of course looked great :-)


Left: Dave and Kim leaving the church (you're not allowed to throw rice anymore so we had to blow bubbles at them)
Middle: Jimmy, Zack, Neil, me, and Devin at the wedding reception
Right: Space Shuttle ice sculpture complete with launch tower and smoke