Weekend in Buffalo

I spent the weekend in Buffalo visiting with my new family. We left Friday afternoon and 5 of us squeezed into a truck and drove the hour and a half trip. We went strait into the city where we had a Rowe Family reunion at Aunt Barb's. It was a really cool house. It was once a warehouse type building and it was redone and decorated with the most intriguing of art. It was all eye candy for me. I met almost all of the siblings of the Rowes and I remember most of them but I get a little fuzzy on the spouses and I know none of the cousins yet. It was so much fun meeting everyone and spending time with my new brothers. (woah that's weird, Aaron, Dan, and Tim are now my brothers, it's gonna take some time getting used to that).
We spent the night in a hotel. I made sure to budget this week so that we could afford a hotel room up to $200 and the room was a very reasonable price. So I was very happy. In the morning after breakfast Greg and I spent a couple of hours in the hot tub enjoying our vacation. Then we had breakfast and went to the wedding.
It was a beautiful Catholic wedding and everyone said that the cathedral was so gorgeous but it was hard for me to tell when I've been to Italy and seen some really amazing ones, like St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome and I just remember how amazing that building was. I do admit though the St. Joseph's Cathedral in Buffalo didn't have any shriveled hands, encased holy fingernail clippings of a random saint, or a mummified body in the basement. So in that respect, yes the cathedral was very nice. The ceremony was definitely different it was my first catholic ceremony and I had no idea what was going on but what was said was very inspiring.
The reception was nice too. I was bored staying with Greg the whole time so I followed Mom around and got to know more about the relatives. We sat with Uncle Steve and Aunt Andrea, and I really like them. They were so fun to sit with at dinner. The food was great and it was all just wonderful.
It brought back a lot of memories and feelings about my own wedding again. And how I am so grateful to my Mom that she did a wonderful job of everything for under $500 and how amazed that everything was so perfect on a tight budget that even Greg thought it wasn't cheesy (which was what he was afraid of happening). Greg and I are very happy, and we are so glad to be married. Everyday is a joy and a blessing being in love. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you can see our countdown till we can be sealed together beyond "till death do us part".