What an awesome Memorial Day weekend. Mine started last Thursday morning, but I'm sure most of you enjoyed your's as well.
I had the pleasure of standing in my college roommates, wedding on Friday evening in York, PA. (Congratulations Tim and Nicole by the way.) Drove out on Thursday morning, and ended up getting stuck in traffic only 40 miles from my house. I ended up missing the rehearsal, however I did show up in time for the rehearsal dinner of course. Their wedding was wonderful and Nicole was beautiful. Tim had a little trick up his sleve during the ceremony and it turned out to be a pretty funny event. For those of you who know Tim, he's 6'8", and Nicole I believe is something like 5'8". Well after they had their customary bride and groom kiss, Tim goes "hold on, I need to get something," he walks away and reaches behind a curtain and pulls out a stepstool which he had made. He presents it to her and she steps on it and they redo there bride and groom kiss. Good times. Bye the way I also caught my seventh garter at the reception. Thats right I said seven. I guess that kind of disproves the whole theory that whoever catches it, is going to be the next one to get married. I guess I better start trying a little harder. I'd also like to give a shout out to my escort Kathryn, and my new friends Matt and Mark, who also stood for Tim who were friends from York.After the wedding on Friday night I drove down to stay at my friend Dan's place over the weekend in Baltimore. Saturday morning I got up and headed on down to Washington D.C. for the day. I've never seen the place so crowded. Since I was by myself I decided to check out some of the attractions that people in large groups never seem to visit. Checked out the National Gallery of Art and the Natural History Museum. The Natural History museum had some of the most lifelike animals I have ever seen. The Hope Diamond was also pretty cool. I ended up heading on over to the Washington Nationals vs. L.A. Dodgers game for the afternoon. Here it is 1/4 of the way through the baseball season and I've been to two teams on two different coasts, and yet the team (Tigers) that plays 10 miles from my house I haven't seen. That will all change this week however as we are going to see the first place Tigers take on the Yankees. After D.C. I headed on over to Annapolis to meet Dan and do some good seafood and some bar action. I had some of the best crabcakes (and most expensive) I've ever had in my life.

After thinking that our college group Memorial Day weekend streak may be over after five years, it somehow made a miraculous survival at the last minute. After looking at my travel map it looked as though it wouldn't take too much effort to stop by my friends Jenn and Nelsons place in Canton, OH on my way back to Detroit. They just had a beautiful baby girl named Emily a couple of weeks ago, so I wanted to stop by and check her out. To my surprise our friend Laura from Alabama also had come up for the weekend, so 6/8 college friends I'd say is pretty sucessful. (I miss you Ben and Anne!) Their baby was absolutely amazing, I can't remember the last time I had held such a small child. She also seemed to be very well behaved. Kind of makes you want to be a parent, although I guess I better start working on that whole wife thing before the baby thing.
Have a great week, I've got four days of work here and then I'm heading out to Boston with Kyle and Mike for a little 3 day weekend on Saturday morning.

Later