Prelude to a Wedding!

Matt and I at His Job.

This is the blog entry about this weekend just before the wedding of Matt Strobel and Tanya Kelly which is today at 8 PM

Matt and Tanya

I've landed in Portland Maine at the Portland Maine Greyhound bus terminal. Its located on St. John Street and some other intersection. It is at least 15° colder  than in Philly I am really glad  I brought my warm clothes and not my shorts!! I must say the bus trip was long and kind of miserable because I was ill. I had to blow my nose all the time and 2 out of the 3  Read more here.)  At least the last bus wasn't packed!! I had all this room in the bus  and it was just cool man.

Goth Night

buses were PACKED!! On the bus from New York to Boston, I was the LAST person on the bus and the driver left 6 minutes EARLY.(

Tanya and her friend Cindy are picked me up and we grabbed a bite to eat and coffee at a coffee place in town.  Cindy drove us though downtown and then we met up with Matt who was working. He was in the middle of mowing the church lawn.  the adventure begins hope you get some coffee
Joke of the day-

Thai Tea!

and some food    I am for now in the land of lobsters.

What is the difference b/t a hillbilly wedding and a hillbilly funeral?

One less drunk at the funeral.

OK. The bride and groom are getting last minute stuff for the wedding. I am in the Jewish ceremony. We had a fun nite at this

nightclub's Goth night. It was not hard-core so I could mix in a bit. I did do some dancing around like a white man can do. Some of the folks had some funny costumes..eh clothes on! One woman was dressed

in a 50's country outfit doing the Rockabilly look and some dude had HUGE  aviator

Wadsworth Statue in Downtown Portland

goggles on and hitting on various women including the Rockabilly woman. I was the old dude at this gig. My friend could not believe I had fun there w/o drinking. I just said it was practice! 

Arnold Palmer Iced Tea!

We all crashed at 2:30 and I slept in till 11:30 this morning. If I get this blog done I am going to walk to downtown Portland or I might nap for awhile. You know what?? I did NEITHER! Ha!!! Ha!! I am listening to the Beatles, lying on a couch, charging my phone and computer. I am writing this blog as well. Of course I am checking out the email and the Facebook. It is a cool sunny day in Yarmouth Maine today. 

How are you this weekend in Philadelphia?  You know something. It's pretty chilly here this early afternoon. It's already 4 Pm and Matt and Tanya are

The synagogue

My Blogging Station

going to be back in 20 minutes.  Its been a long time since I have been to a wedding. In 1994 I went to 5 weddings including my very own. Boy life has changed. I mean I was at Matt's first wedding back in the year 2000 and now they expect 40-50 people there and all (except a few of us) are friends that Tanya and Matt know in Maine. Well got to fly now and shower cause they are going to running around and showering and getting wedding nerves.