Once again I am hitting crunch time before a trip east. I wrote up a to do list this morning and it freaked me out. I decided to give my brain some time to absorb the magnitude of my workload by writing a post. It is a distraction tactic I have used before and it tends to work fairly well.
Part of the reason I am overwhelmed is because I didn’t get as much done this weekend as I had hoped. We were in Bend for a wedding and I was just too tired to get much done after a long drive home. The wedding was not for a couple I knew. One of the perks of being married to a rabbi is that I get to tag along when he does destination weddings. This was the second Bend wedding this season, and I really enjoyed getting to see Bend in both summer and fall.
Sometimes it can be awkward to attend weddings of couples that I don’t know. Sometimes I connect with folks and end up having some great conversations. Other times I spend a lot of time alone while David is working. This weekend was more of the latter, although I did get to meet some interesting people.
The groom is a chef and restaurateur, so the food was excellent. Because he had his own restaurant doing the catering, the staff paused work during the actual ceremony so they could watch their boss get married. Something about that struck me as kind of sweet. I have heard that restaurant crews often form ersatz families, but I had never seen it in action before.
David and I sat at a table with a unobstructed view of the kitchen. It was obvious that both the groomsmen (all of who worked in the food industry, including one guy who owns a restaurant here in Portland) and the groom’s daughter felt most at home in the kitchen, given the amount of time they spent in there.
On Saturday, David and I used some of our free time to wander around Sisters. There was a harvest fair in progress, which was not particularly harvest related and was more a crafts fair, but either way we enjoyed our ramble. It started raining during our walk-through and it seemed to perturb the locals, which amused me.
We were saddened to discover that our favorite yarn store in Sisters had closed. The last time we had been there we had bought some roving after playing with the shop’s spinning wheel. We still have that roving and I am hoping to get it spun by this time next year.
Thus ends 2013’s wedding season for David. Here’s hoping he gets some fun destination weddings for next year!