Oh Canada

Last Thursday morning at 7:30am I entered the land to the north of us. I wanted to save a couple hours on my trip to Detroit so I thought drive through would be good. I was wrong. The trip was running smoothly until I got about 5 miles from the border back into the States. At that point traffic came to a complete stop. It took me two hours to move two miles. It was frustrating but I did some people watching to help pass the time. I was intrigued at how other people dealt with the frustration of sitting in traffic. One guy got out every ten minutes to smoke, another guy would get out every time we stopped to do some serious stretching and one couple decided to make out a little bit. I finally got to the entrance lane after about 3.5 hours and the guy let me go through. As soon as I started moving another customs officer stood in front of the car and asked me to pull over towards another place where another officer was standing. I had been randomly selected for an xray of my car. They selected five more cars and we were all in a row. We exited our vehicles and then a van circled our vehicles. After about twenty minutes we were all allowed to leave. So, I left Theresa at 6:45am and didn't arrive to my destination until 7:30pm. What a day.

However, after that adventure, the weekend was a blast. The wedding ceremony was beautiful, the church was beautiful, the bride and bridesmaids were beautiful and the groom and groomsmen were pimpalicious of course. I met a lot of cool people, even though they were Red Wings fans. I danced pretty much the whole time music was playing at the reception. There were a few songs I boycotted because I hate them that much. One was the cupid shuffle, that song sucks beyond belief. At one point during the reception, the groom and I busted out our Blackhawks jerseys. We got a lot of boos and thumbs down. We had to do it though, this might be the only time we can gloat. I wish that night would have never ended. It was so great to just share that moment with old and new friends and family.

I have another wedding in Chicago in a week and a half and I will be taking the train for that one.