We just got back from Texas on Tuesday. But first - everyone should read a book called The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It's informative, political, philosophical, and good for you all at the same time. It will make you think about what you're eating, force you to consider where your food is coming from, and make you quit being so smug about buying organic. He's not preachy in the book, but the points he's driving at are pretty obvious. If my recommendation isn't good enough, it also has 4.5 stars over 400+ reviews on Amazon.

Back to Texas - we went down for Annie's friend Laura's wedding. She's known Laura since they were 1 or 2 years old when they were neighbors. Laura's family later moved to Kansas City, and then later still to San Antonio. They hadn't seen each other for about 15 years so it was fun for them to get reacquainted. We took plenty of pictures while we were down there. Feel free to browse through them. :)



The trip down was unpleasant - a 3 hour delay at the airport in St. Louis with Annie's parents waiting patiently for us at the San Antonio airport since the rental car was in my name. Fortunately, the weather in San Antonio was great. The wedding was outside, and though the bride apparently threw up several times in the morning due to nerves, everything went well and the reception was good fun. We also got to spend a little time up in the hill country at the bride's parents' house which was one of the nicest (though probably priciest) houses I've visited in a long time.

We flew in on Friday, the wedding was Saturday. On Sunday I drove Annie's parents back to the airport at way too early in the morning. Then we packed up our stuff and drove down to Port Aransas (near Corpus Christi on Mustang Island). We rented a little one-room condo on the beach there for a very reasonable $95/night. It had a kitchenette so we could make breakfast/lunch and then not feel so bad about spending more on Dinner. The weather wasn't so cooperative there, cloudy and windy and not especially warm, but we did manage to get in some beach time. And when the weather was it's worst (quite a storm blew through) we just happened to be on/in an aircraft carrier in Corpus Christi.

After our two days there we drove back up to San Antonio, blew through the Alamo real quick, ate at the River Walk, and then flew back here.



For those I haven't talked to lately, that's the third wedding we went to out of four, all in four weeks. Two in St. Louis, one in Texas, and another in Lexington, KY that my sister and I will be driving to this weekend. On top of that, I've also been to Pittsburgh for a week and to Denver for three days for work in the middle of all this. I'm ready for wedding season to be done.