OK, our traveling is finally done for a while.  Good thing, because it was taking a nasty toll on our bank account.  We’ve been “somewhere” for the last four weekends in a row.  Just boarding the pup that often was getting a little pricey.

Our trip this weekend was to St. Louis for a wedding.  In the interests of maximizing our trip, we went down a day early so we could hang out with the Eisenbargers on Friday.  We messed around at their house all night, eating dinner, playing kickball, ping-pong, air hockey, and various other forms of entertainment.  After that we met up with some friends back at the hotel and caught up on their recent events, then called it a night.

Saturday was a wedding ceremony for our friends Ameet and Lori.  They had a traditional Hindu ceremony at the hotel.  (I’ll let you guess which one of them has a Hindu background from the names.)  I must say, I’ve never seen anything quite like it… Pretty radical departure from the weddings I am used to.  Lots of chanting, incense, fire, and pelting people with flowers.  The guy officiating it all (whose exact title escapes me) did a good job of keeping us filled in on what was going on though, so we weren’t totally lost.  It was a little long, but anything involving fire is generally considered pretty interesting in my book.  So, now I can check “Attend Hindu wedding” off my list of things to do.

Sunday was taken up with the miserable drive home.  Man I hate that trip.  OK, I hate any trip, but the St. Louis drive is particularly miserable.  Not even a Chiefs game to pass the time with either.  We did break it up a little bit;  We stopped and joined the Martins in Rocheport for a glass of wine up on the bluffs.  Other than that brief respite though, it was an uneventful day.