Wedding.

My eldest sister was married last Saturday. I had the honor of being a torchbearer.

On Friday night we had the rehearsal. It was scheduled to start at 7, but we ended up starting at half past. We all went over to the Stemms' house for the dinner. The dinner was an informal munching down of Papa Murphy's Pizza and crazy conversations. We decided that the Harry Potter series would end with the British prime minister nuking Hogwarts.

We didn't get to bed until after midnight, and we had to get up early next morning to set up the Reception Hall. We were there two and a half ours before the ceremony. The cheesecake Matt cut got a little sloppy, and he had this mass of cheesy, cakey stuffing that was piled off to the side. He refused to eat it so I did. (don't worry, the cake looked fine.)

The Reception was pretty cool. Other than the obligatory wild-dancing-like-a-maniac (which we got the newly weds in on too, we rock!), which, as I'm sure you guessed, is necessary, there weren't too many other big things that stood out. Just the cheese ball, and the stick whacking game.

I tried to get Pastor's son and the one violinists sister to join us in our dancing, but they both refused.

Mike pointed out the cheese ball. (FYI: The cheese ball was a roll of cheese dip.) It was lying on the cracker dish with a knife stuck upright in it. My explanation was that it must have been attacking someone, and the "someone" killed the cruel cheese ball. Patchy said that it was definitely, brutally murdered. He pointed out that the knife was upright, and that if the cheese ball fell back the knife should be at an angle. He was obviously right.

And the stick whacky game (for lack of a better name) is just what it's name implies. All the players stand around in a circle with wooden dowels. Then there's one dowel - with Styrofoam balls duct taped onto the ends - that's used as a "ball" to be passed around the circle using the sticks. It's really hard, but really fun. So after work today I stopped by Lowes and bought me the equipment.

I was also instructed to see the Pachelbel Rant on Youtube.