Infrequent Incoherent Thoughts

This weekend I helped Natalie move to Mil-wok-ah! It’s all so very exciting. Steve and Natalie drove from LA in a rented truck and we came over and helped unload the truck and set up the apartment on Sat. and Sunday. It was pretty hard work, but everyone being together made it fun. The apartment complex is beautiful and only 10 minutes from Steve’s place. It also is a minute from the Miller Brewery. Steve is worried Natalie might take too many Brew Tours:)

On Saturday night we ate out at the Chancery and everone gave Natalie one article of warm clothing: Hats, gloves, scarves, and long underwear. We even had the waitress give her a scarf at the end of the meal when she brought the check. (The whole plan was Shannon’s idea and it was hillarious)

On Sunday Steve and Jeremy got to play soccer together for the Serbian’s. They got hammered 5-1 but Jeremy scored the only goal for his team!!!

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Rebecca and I were kid-free for the weekend thanks to generous grandparents. On Sunday we went to Julie Goodman’s wedding: a beautiful wedding, in a beautiful church nestled among the fall colors in Excelsior. One of the officiants was Julie’s dad…he gave a very touching speech in which he used a bell that he had bought for the couple as a type of object lesson. He’d even inscribed the bell with their names, the date, and the verse that he had spoken on. The congregation was in tears for the joyous couple when he raised the bell to introduce the two and ring out the news with his concrete metaphor. Only…instead of saying Mr. and Mrs. Dan Orlando…he announced, “I now present Mr. and Mrs. Dan Alexander.” He then rang the bell. Well it got a big laugh from everyone but Amber (Rebecca’s friend from Duluth) had the best zinger when she leaned over and whispered, “He better check the bell!”