A friend and a neighbor, Cody Slaubaugh, got married this past weekend in his home town of Rugby, ND. Morgan and I of course jumped at the chance to go, because how many times can we have the conversation "Wish we had an excuse to go to North Dakota". We flew into Bismarck and joined Eric and Jon Little in renting a car for the 3 hour drive to Rugby. Everyone that was coming in decided to stay at the nicer of the two hotels in town, the Econo Lodge. We luck sacked our way into the nut room as our back door opened directly into the common pool area. Most of the poker playing friends had never been to a town as small as Rugby, (pop. 2200) which made it more fun. We had a good time soaking in the local flavor as we toured the bars of Rugby. We played a multitude of bar gams and ordered plenty of shots with beer chasers.
The ceremony itself was actually enjoyable as the priest had some verbal slip ups to keep me paying attention, including "You may kiss yourselfs".... in was funny.
The reception was about how I pictured it, everyone was smashed, Adam laying down in the middle of the dance floor because he did not have the will to get up after falling for a second time, Eric copying some kids doing the "Thriller Dance", and a 70 year old man in a T-Shirt and bushy beard doing bird whistles during the last half hour. After this mess we figured we would all go to Renee's farm and start a bon fire. Luckily a shuttle was available for transportation and we found our way back to the comforts of the Econo Lodge.
On Sunday we all got together for a BBQ and tossed the football around. We tried to make it a quiet night as we all had to get up early the next day, but 2 am got there fast and we all knew Monday would be horrible.
I will be spending today packing, as I am going to Barcelona. Eric is of course taking this Cardplayer POY race seriously and wants to get to the soft fields of the EPT. I have never been to Europe before, but I hear Barcelona is a great place to start. I took a solid three years of spanish in school, but unless everyone speaks in only numbers and colors I am sure I will be a bit lost. I am sure Barcelonians are more worldy than most and speak english as well.
Hopefully I will be able to keep up with my blogs while I am out there for the next 8 days.
Justin "robert07" Young
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