This past weekend Mark and I (Yes -- alone!! Thanks mom and dad for watching the boys overnight for us!!!!) traveled west to Odebolt, Iowa. Mark's good friend Mike from the army was getting married, so of course we were there. Mark calls Mike his battle buddy. They went on both tours overseas together. Mike was an infantry medic just like Mark, and I'm pretty sure they roomed together at some point too (I guess they all did - Mark stayed in a tent with 100+ soldiers for a month or more).
We had some fun getting to the wedding - neither Mark nor I have ever been in this area of Iowa and our hotel was in one really small town (Ida Grove) and the wedding was several miles away in the country outside Oldebolt. So we trusted our GPS to get us there. Thankfully it got us there perfectly - unfortunately it didn't know about all of the road closed signs that we encountered along the way. Because we had no clue where we were when we got to the first one, we just drove past it !!! and did the same for the other 5-6 that we ran into - I'm not sure why the roads were closed, there was no construction or holes or anything. We did run into one big obstacle - but thanks to Mark we got through it! :) (yeah - we are bad)
We eventually made it to our destination...The wedding was held at a really pretty farm and garden called
Prairie Pedlar.
The wedding was sweet. It was held outside and the weather was a little bit iffy -- it was sunny, but the clouds looked like it could rain at any time. Luckily it didn't rain until late Saturday night.
Mike asked Mark to give the prayer before the dinner (their pastor had to leave before it was time to eat) and then he also gave a toast. It was really special.
I'm so glad we went - it was really fun to see Mike -- and it was really good for Mike and Mark to catch up with each other. Congratulations Mike and Raquel!
We had some fun getting to the wedding - neither Mark nor I have ever been in this area of Iowa and our hotel was in one really small town (Ida Grove) and the wedding was several miles away in the country outside Oldebolt. So we trusted our GPS to get us there. Thankfully it got us there perfectly - unfortunately it didn't know about all of the road closed signs that we encountered along the way. Because we had no clue where we were when we got to the first one, we just drove past it !!! and did the same for the other 5-6 that we ran into - I'm not sure why the roads were closed, there was no construction or holes or anything. We did run into one big obstacle - but thanks to Mark we got through it! :) (yeah - we are bad)
We eventually made it to our destination...The wedding was held at a really pretty farm and garden called Prairie Pedlar.
The wedding was sweet. It was held outside and the weather was a little bit iffy -- it was sunny, but the clouds looked like it could rain at any time. Luckily it didn't rain until late Saturday night.
Mike asked Mark to give the prayer before the dinner (their pastor had to leave before it was time to eat) and then he also gave a toast. It was really special.
I'm so glad we went - it was really fun to see Mike -- and it was really good for Mike and Mark to catch up with each other. Congratulations Mike and Raquel!
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