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crisp.

we had been delayed by at least an hour. at one point we were excited that we might catch our friend at the airport (he was on his way to DC to propsed to his girlfriend, no fiancee), but alas, as it was, we missed him by 15 minutes.

OKC was the destination - not a typical destination by choice, but definitely not somplace we had ever thought to visit. the occaision was a wedding. so as it seems, we were willing to fly to attend a wedding - of course, given the number of frequent flier miles we had, not to mention hotel points and free weekend rentals, the trips was actually more of a travel/time hassle that it was monetarily or in terms of schedule.

amzingly enough, very few pictures were taken - given the opportunities at the cowboy store (literally called because of the contents, but it was one of many) where one could find boots and hats well over the $500 range.

$500. not an amount that either of us would probably spend on boots and a hat together, let alone for a signel item - we are not rich (in that sense) but there they were.

hindsight being 20/20, we should have at least gotten pictures of them, the hat's or the boots, or both - but alas, the camera's batteries had died due traveling in the cold underbelly of the plane.

well, that and we just plain forget to take pictures.

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interesting.

the groom was methodist and the bride was Catholic, but the wedding was in a lutheran church. the service lasted twice as long as most non-catholic weddings simply because the bride and her family were from guatamala - so the ceremony, every part, was translated from english to spanish.

at the reception, it was hard for me to like the vodka, because it just didn't taste all that good - of course, this could be due to the negative reinforcement from the previous thursday where too much of the liquor was imbibed. and the DJ was poor - no good frank, no good swing, no good hip hop. for goodness sakes, ice ice baby was the best he could muster - everything else was salsa or meringue(sp?) and even some of the top 40 songs were remixed into salsa. not that we mind, for a few songs, but it became overbearing after the first hour...

in any case, it was just nice that we had time to spend together - away from the house - away from the craziness of the secularism and materialism that seems to cloud Christmas and the holiday season.

karamel sutra is good ice cream although some would argue that pistachio pistachio is better.

OKC, not terribly warmer than farther north, but definitely less snow.

it is very strange to see oil derricks just chillin in the middle of a city.

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speaking of secularism and materialism - we are almost done shopping... our credit cards and bank accounts will be very happy once that is over.

then we have tax season to which we can look forward...

ugh.

Thursday can't get here fast enough.