The main purpose for the trip to New England, of course, was Scott and Kristin's wedding. Our son has been in New Jersey for several years, carrying on a career in education.
Most of the guests at the event were friends and family of Kristin (our new daughter-in-law) and colleagues of Scott, but there was a lively contingent of Canadians who were in attendance. Old track buddies of Scott's from University, us, of course, and Scott's sister and brother-in-law from the Koots. Andrea & Demitri actually biked to the wedding from Montreal, at least as far as Newport RI where they decided the traffic was just too insane, so they switched to the train, ending up in NYC. This was only about an hour or so from the wedding's location and they had a few days to hang out and travel around with Scott prior to the wedding.
After our exploring around Boston and area for a few days, we had the rehearsal and the get-to-know-everybody BBQ followed by the event itself on Saturday. Everyone was very friendly (something we've come to expect of Americans) and welcoming and the wedding party was quite fun. As well as various references to Canadians (and Americans), the enertainment highlight of the party was probably all the Canadians in attendance enthusiastically dancing and singing to "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". I think the Americans found this pretty entertaining. It is, after all, almost a Saskatchewan anthem!
Readers will be interested in one part of the ceremony where Scott and Kristin poured together vials of New Jersey shore sand and South Saskatchewan River sand. I thought that was quite cute.
Anyhow, it was nice to welcome our new daughter-in-law to the family. I think our next challenge will be to have her visit the Koots in winter so we can teach her how to ski. Here's to more connections across the border.
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