Steve and I caught a late afternoon flight to the O.C. for my cousin Jennifer's wedding. After 5 1/2 hrs on the plane we landed in sunny Huntington Beach, California. I exptected to be met by Ryan, Summer, Cohen, Marissa (oh wait she's dead), but we weren't ....(and now you all know I've watched the OC before). Instead, we met Jadyn at the airport, caught a cab to the hotel and checked in. We were starving so we decided to head down to "Main Street" for some food. We picked a Mexican Restaurant called El Ranchito. It was delicious by comparison to NYC Mexican food. About an hour later, the parents arrived in the OC and met us at the Restaurant. We all caught up before heading back to the hotel. At 2 am, we all finally crashed.
Saturday rolled around and we met up with family friends, Cheryl & Norm and Chuck & Lena, for lunch. We tried to go near "Main Street" and the beach, but the annual volleyball tournie was going on and it was impossible to find parking. We finally found a restaurant away from the action. It was great to see them all and catch up. (From left to right: Lena, Chuck, Jadyn, Steve, Jaren, Cheryl, Ann, Norm, Greg)
After a long lunch Jadyn, Steve and I checked out the beach briefly before heading back to the hotel to hang with the other Tichy's who arrived.
The cousin's and significant others went to dinner at the Blue Water Grill in the Newport Beach marina while the parents attended the rehearsal dinner. 
After, we all met up at Muldoon's Tavern....Several rounds later, the parents left and the youngsters remained. We closed the place down before heading back to the hotel to cause some trouble. The parents were up still chatting in Uncle George's room when we got home. We went to my parent's room to chat when poor Danny knocked on our door. Hewas locked out his room. He entertained us for a bit until we recieved a few noise complaints. By 2 we all crashed. We were lucky we didn't get kicked out.
Sunday, we woke up hurting and needing some food. We hit up the California institution, In-and-Out Burger!
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After devouring our food, we headed to the beach for a few hours. Jadyn wanted a kite since it was the perfect kite-flying weather, so Dad went out and bought a $1.99 tie-dyed kite.
Steve, Jadyn and Kite. Jadyn running with Kite.
Jaren and Steve on the beach.
Only spending 2 hrs on the beach, we all got fried to a crisp.
We headed back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding.....
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...you may kiss the bride. May I present to you, Mr. & Mrs. Calisher
The reception followed.
We toasted the bridge and groom as they arrived. They did a little (choreographed) dance for the crowd. We ate a delicious meal. We saw a slide show of their childhoods and history of their relationship. We ate some cake and danced the night away before sending the bride and groom off. (I can neither confirm, nor deny, that there may have been some tailgating...)
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After the reception, we came back to the hotel and sat outside in the gazebo listing to my dad and uncle tell family stories...before we knew it, it was bedtime.
6am rolled around quickly. We were all a bit groggy from the night before, but we managed to all make our flights home....Steve and I landed in NYC to 93 degree weather, summer is officially here.
We had a great time with the Tichy's! Thanks to everyone.
4 comments:
memories abound in the OC!
love, mom
Why do I always get so hungry when I read your posts? Looks like it was a beautiful wedding!! Glad you had fun!!!
The groom looked happy. I take it that means he wasn´t handsome? JT, you really know how to flatter a fella :)
aww...you make me homesick! loved your OC adventure...next time, you're in town I recommend goat hill tavern in newport for shuffleboard!
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