Last Minute Comparison Time

After arriving home late last night—or early this morning, if you look at it that way—from yet another wedding, I passed out dead asleep. I woke with no recollection of any dreams, but I would bet good money I had plenty of them. The myriad wedding thoughts, good and bad, comparing and even non-judgmental—believe it—, floating around in there must have tried to do something in my head while I slept. In fact, I would bet I had some night sweats and tremors about it all. Good thing I slept through them. This whole “biggest day of your life” thing is starting to get to me.

In any event, one of my old childhood friends tied the knot on an island near where we grew up. We had a special ferry for the guests, so I got to show Fiancé my old ocean stomping grounds, including the beauteous power plant perched on a prominent edge of a prominent island. I am fond of it only because I saw a humpback whale out there in 3rd grade when I skipped Sunday school and went out on the boat with my dad. Something about the unnaturally warm water spewing a few hundred yards off shore…Fiancé’s enormous fear of sharks didn’t seem to bother him, and when we got to the wedding we forgot about our own impending party and visited with old and new friends in the sunshine, having fun as is sometimes hard to do when you’re focused so much on planning fun for everybody else.