It's the season for my friends to get married or engaged. This was a rather full weekend, as Jim and I drove the 3.5 hours to Pia and William Chuang's Wedding in Rhinebeck, NY. The ceremony took place in a little church and was very nice. The wedding reception was at a historic mansion, full of MIT alums.
Betsy and many others flew out from California to hang out and celebrate. It was an east-meets-west coast kind of MIT reunion. My favorite part was when best-man Duff made his toast, and said "Sorry ladies, William is officially off the market" and Tong, his wife sighed out loud "Oh-NO!"-- that made the speech even more funny! (Congratulations to Duff and Tong on getting hitched just a few weeks ago!) I also enjoyed the flappy tent, and hanging out with Cheryl and Greg Yantz. Congratulations you two, on your engagement. Finally, it was just fun to dance with everyone. I saw Rena, Art, and Pat McCormick on the dance floor while I was doing the bee dance. Yay, party favors were honey pots-- just what a busy bee like me loves! Buzz Buzz!
It is always exciting and fun to meet all the nice people from years past, and be reminded of just how cool MIT, and the people there were/are! William is of course, awesome, and a hub for many different people, and Pia seems pretty awesome as well. Again, congrats to William and Pia, they are two of a kind!
Our adventure didn't end after the reception. We had to drive back from Rhinebeck to Boston, but we were low on gas. It was just about 11PM, and we thought that the NY Taconic Parkway would have gas stations open... but NO! Most of the towns we pulled into didn't even have any lightbulbs burning. Not until we were praying (and boy had we been part of a lot of praying that day-- also a lot of leg bumping (but that's another story)), and hanging on until we reached the Mass Pike did we find an open gas station. I'm telling, PoDunk is really no place for a city gal like me. Isn't there a law that at least one gas station in the state should be open all night? Ah well, it was funny anyway.
We got home around 3AM, and I have to say, there ain't nothing like sleeping late in your own bed.
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