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| Photo- Myself, Jean, and various wedding guests. |
I went for another early morning walk with Otis. He took me along the back of the of the
Wildwood Farm Bed & Breakfast property to a trail aptly named Happy
Trail. The B&B is on Happy Valley Road. The trail winds through a large wooded
area. Its beautiful green and
woodsy. I ended up turning around when
the 5 paths verged in the forest area and I was unsure which one to take. I didn’t want to get lost in the woods, though
I would imagine that Otis would have showed me the way back.
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| Photo- The stairs from the Rocky Point Lodge area down to the beach. |
I came back to a wonderful amazing breakfast of fresh
honeydew melon, bacon, breakfast potatoes, and French toast stuffed with
blackberries with a bit of cream cheese.
All of it was terribly yummy!
Otis didn’t partake of very much leftovers from this breakfast.
I kind of just hung out around the B&B—caught up on
email, a bit of blogging, uploaded some photos, wrapped up a wedding present,
and other misc. things. I wanted to be
available to help if Jean needed help getting ready. She said they were going over at 10am to
start set up. I had taken a shower and
was getting ready to head over about 11am when she called and said they had it
all set up. Okay, so I hung out a little
more doing a little reading and then trying to figure out what to wear to a casual
wedding.
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| Photo- Wedding guests along the beach area. |
The day’s weather was beautiful—sunny and not a cloud in the
sky. The perfect day for a wedding. The wedding was held at a place called Rocky
Point. It’s a large wood cabin lodge
just above a beach area on the opposite side of the Island from where my
B&B is located. It was maybe about
an 8 mile drive over to it.
I arrived to a hive of activity taking place. A rock band was setting up, people were
putting out coolers with beverages, the keg of beer was on ice, and all kinds
of people like me were taking photos of the amazing view from near the lodge
area.
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| Photo- Some of the kids from the wedding party playing at the beach. |
The ceremony was to take place at 2pm but got delayed because
of guests being late of lost trying to find the place. At 2:30pm, the small lovely simple ceremony
took place in an area inside the lodge while the guests sat at shell decorated tables. Walt and Jean held hands facing each other as
the minister talked.
After that, they opened a buffet line that had macaroni
salad, potato salad, corn bread, smoked pulled chicken, smoked pulled pork, and
an apricot based BBQ sauce. Walt’s son
had smoked and cooked the meat and also made the bbq sauce. It was all just wonderful and everyone went
around and visited. I got to meet quite
a few of Jean’s family from the Oregon area.
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| Photo- Jean's daughter Christa, with a cousin being silly along the beach area. |
Shortly after eating the band started up and some were
dancing, some were just listening, and others went down to walk along the beach
where you could still hear the band. The
band played tunes from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. It was just wonderful.
As the sun started to drop towards the horizon, so did the
temperature. After watching the beautiful
sunset out over the water, and as the band played their last tune; I found
myself chilled to the bone in my skort. I
got in my car and headed back to the B&B for the night. I guess I should have worn the blue jeans
that Jean had suggested. But overall, it
was a wonderful event and I guess they have more planned for the next day too.
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| Photo- The amazing sunset at the end of Jean's wonderful wedding day! |
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