a wedding road trip

mole here! it was a busy summer for us, socially, so there wasn’t a lot of work done on the house. last month we took a road trip to attend mathew’s sister eva’s wedding in los angeles.

(left) jacques the groom with a woman representing the church, followed by mathew and his sister leonora. (right) DaDaniel walking the lovely bride down the aisle.

(right) eva was very happily surprised by the rented, decorated, chauffeured wedding car.

after dinner at hugo’s, we went back to our rented house for cake.

eva’s friend val caught the bouquet.

leo made the cake!

(left) except for the meal at hugo’s, aja shopped for and prepared all of our meals at the house. she made it a delicious and relaxing retreat. (right) and misha surprised us with his first concert ever! he sang one song in italian (which made me cry!), one in german and an original eight two song in english. it was all very exciting and moving. i felt very privileged.

(left) mathew saying good bye to his brother. (right) the hollywood couple and their new car.

on the way home jim, reirin, mathew and i stopped at the beach for lunch.

and we stopped in san luis obispo for coffee. everything felt exactly as we’d left it many years ago. linnea’s was still there, downtown looked great, and the creek was still a nice place to stop and sit. we feel really lucky to have called this town home while we attended cal poly.

(left) my self portrait in front of the creek. (right) arwen sitting in mathew’s bag, happy to have us home. or maybe she’s saying, “next time i’m going with you.”

i promise to include more kittens in the blog… soon!