About a month ago (you thought I was kidding when I said these posts will all be overdue), Tony and I headed to Cinnciatti for our lovely friend Chris Heck's wedding.
Tony and Chris were Sig Ep's together at KSU then lived together in KC Tony's first 2 years of dental school. They even had a cat together. I hated that cat. Probably why Heck got custody when Tony moved out. Seriously that cat was a B. Heck and I shared a love for a lot of things just not Peanut. I will give him credit for teaching me to love wine. That's a big one. And for introducing me to the Quaff. That's another big one.
When Heck moved away to Savannah, Georgia for work we were pretty sad, but that's where he met his wife Jenna, so I've gotten over it a little bit. They now both live in Philly and both work for the same hotel. We're hoping they get transferred back to KC at some point.
Back to the trip... we flew out EARLY on Friday morning with Tony's parents and Rizzo. Tony and Riz were groomsmen so they had to fly with their tuxes. Tony had called Delta to make sure they had a place to hang them, they said they did. When we got to the airport, we had a change of planes (planes, not plans), and we walked on the smallest plane I've ever seen. 1 seat on the left, 2 on the right, no place to hang the tuxes. Tony shoved his in the overhead compartment. Apparently he was ahead of the game b/c when Rizzo went to put his up, there was no room. So the tux sat on his lap for the entire trip... along with his bag. Hilarious. I'm just sad I don't have a picture.
We arrived in Cincy, got the rental car, and were off to find our hotel and lunch. We were so hungry we went to the first place we saw... Lonestar Steakhouse. Turns out we have one here in KC and Tony's parents also have one in Hutch, but we were so hungry we didn't care. Next we went to meet other friends for drinks at Applebee's before the rehearsal dinner. Lonestar and Applebee's... really branching out in Cincy.
The rehearsal dinner was at an old huge Irish Pub. Right up my style. Plus, when they brought the wine around for refills, it was Tisdale. We all know how much I love my Tizzy.
You can see how the night progressed...
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| Bride & Groom |
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| Rehersal dinner cake |
All night Erin's excuse for double fisting was 'I'm a mom'
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| Hello, mom |
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| I am not a mom. I have no excuse. |
After dinner, we headed out to the main part of the bar where there was a DJ. He was not there for the rehearsal dinner, he was just there. And he had a fog machine. It was outstanding. We danced our pants off in that fog.
It took the cab an hour and a half to pick us up. Tony waited outside for him and in the mean time, Rizzo and I had our very own photoshoot...
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| So sad the cab isn't here. |
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| but we'll keep taking pictures. |
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| so bored. |
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| Then we found Tony! |
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| And the pictures continued |
The next day was the wedding, which Tony's parents and I were late to after getting lost. The wedding party drove around the rest of the day taking pictures, and we all found the nearest bar to watch the KSU game.
Then we met up with everyone at the reception.
And then again with the action shots....
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| Everybody wanted to dance against the mom on the wall. |
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| See? |
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| Wine apparently makes me gangsta. |
They had a party bus pick up people from the reception and head back to the hotels. Genious.
Plus it had a stripper pole...
Our flight the next morning was at 9:00 and we had to return the rental car, which meant we had to be up at 5:30. You can bet I was not a happy camper.
Great weekend away!
Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Heck!!
