Tuesday, January 4, 2005

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Rachaels parents are pretty cool people, they live surrounded by farms in rural NY. They basically flew us out there, and fed us and planned most of the reception all on their own dollar. That was really cool, but they also gave us wedding and christmas presents...can't beat that.

2/3 of her family came to the reception, but none of my aunts or uncles showed (bastards!). My dad came from Omaha with his wife Sara, and my mom came with my grandmother. By brother came, and some college buddies and one friend from high school whom I haven't seen in like 5 years. He drove all the way from New Hampshire so he's pretty hardcore. I feel very grateful to have friends that will go out of their way to come visit me once in a while. The two families segregated out within the house but not too badly. Parents met each other and such. Apparently my Dad is upset with my brother even though neither me nor him have any real idea why. It was a good time.

We had a day to chill after the reception, but our flight back was 6am on wednesday. We actually got to the airport before anything was even open. We eventually made our way to our departure gate, and an hour or so later they tell us that they can't get the door to the plane open. I thought it was utterly ridiculous, but wasn't too worried because we had a long layover in Chi-town. It took them like 2 hours to get it going, and when I was just about to board the plane I look over to the side where the maintenence people must have been working. What did I see there you ask? Well it was a wire coat-hanger that was untwisted and bent up. Great!, the geniuses at American Airlines need coat hangers to open their airplane doors. I'm just glad that the door didn't fly open when we took off. The landing in Chicago was really bad too, they pretty much slammed the breaks instead of slowing down gradually like usual.

So yeah I'm back up to date with things and happily in my home base. Sunday I went to see the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson Movie) and it was really cool. I don't want to give much away about it but it follows a Jaques Cousteau type character (Bill Murray) going on his last adventure. Its strange and subtle, not the funniest move ever but remarkable. The in movie soundtrack also happens to be all David Bowie songs in Portugese which is cool. It has my highest reccommendations so go see it.
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