So we left on Friday about noon or a little after. Don't remember for sure. But we didn't get left as soon as we wanted to. We had clear roads and no precipitation, but it was really windy! It was so windy it was really hard to drive and it really wore me out! I had to turn it over to Todo before either of us wanted to. We got to Cincy about 7:30pm and checked into our hotel! Hilton Garden Inn! It was really nice! AND CLEAN! Aunt Beth and Uncle Frido got to the hotel from the rehearsal dinner about 10:30 and the boys and I visited with them a little bit. Todo had already sacked out. Saturday was the wedding and we got up, had a hot breakfast downstairs at the hotel and then went back upstairs, Todo and the boys took naps while I got ready and then they got up and got ready for the wedding. The wedding was beautiful! She is my little cousin....I remember when she was born and it's hard to believe that she's married now! I'll share some pictures here in a bit. Her colors were red, black, silver and cream. She had Red roses for each of the grooms grandparents that are no longer living. And they gave each of the mothers a red rose during the ceremony. I don't think anything really went wrong in the ceremony. We stayed after to take pictures before the reception. Here's some I took.

The wedding party. I just love her colors!
Todo, me, Rigo, Uncle Frido, Aunt Beth, Bodo, Riadoc, Rosie and Bom, in the front are Olo and Berylac.
Here's the guys, in age order. Bom, Rigo and Bodo Aren't they handsome!
After the wedding and reception, we went back to the hotel, which by then it was late enough and the boys hadn't had naps so we pretty much went right to bed. The next day we had to be out by 11 am, so Todo and the boys and I got up, got our swimming gear on and went down to the pool for about an hour. Then back up to our room and we found a note from Aunt Beth saying they woke up earlier than they expected and they wondered if we wanted to go eat Breakfast with them. So we got showered and changed and took Uncle Frido and Aunt Beth to Bob Evans for Breakfast. We were checked out of the hotel first of course. Anyway, then we went to Traders World, it's an indoor flea market. Just for a little bit and by then Todo found out that he didn't have to work that night, so we decided to take the boys to Aunt Beth's for the night and Todo and I went to Dayton and got a suite. We never got to do anything for our anniversary this year, so we celebrated late. Monday morning we got up and went shopping at the Dayton Mall and while we were there, Todo's Uncle called and said his Grandpa had passed away. So after we ate at the food court we headed back to Aunt Beths and were planning to come home so Todo could work that night, but I told him to call his dispatcher and tell him his Grandpa had died and when the viewing and funeral was. So he did and they didn't even hesitate, but gave him off till Wednesday evening! So we stayed all night with Aunt Beth Monday night and Tuesday morning traveled 3 hours into Indiana to Stay with Todo's Aunt and Uncle. We got to their house about 1:30 yesterday and changed for the viewing, got to the viewing about 2:30pm. Viewing hours were from 3-5 and 6-8. We were served supper in between those times. Todo's brother from Oregon got there in time for Supper with his family! They have 5 beautiful kids! The baby is about 8 months old and we haven't seen him yet! Todo's sister from WI got there after Supper and we haven't seen them for a long time either. The only family that wasn't able to make it was Todo's parents, which is a son of Grandpa. Dad just had hip surgery and just couldn't sit that long, so they hope to wait a few weeks till he can sit better and then come up here for a couple weeks. I think Grandma will be able to enjoy them more then too. It was good to see all the cousins again, we don't all get together very often and we weren't able to go to the family camp out this year. We plan to all be together for Christmas in January again. That's an annual thing with Todo's family. So back to last night, we stayed all night with Todo's Aunt and Uncle, and this morning we had to be at the church early because Todo was a Paw Bearer. After the funeral and the grave side service we were served lunch. Visited a little while and then went back to Todo's Aunt's and changed, packed and said goodbyes. We left there about 3:30 and got home about 5:30. It was a long week, but we are so glad we were able to take it all in and be there for the wedding and the funeral. I dropped Todo off at work on the way home tonight, so he hasn't been home yet. The boys just had baths and they're eating supper. It will be bedtime soon and I'm so looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again!
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