A quick post because I'm in a hurry…

Some of our wedding photos

Some of our honeymoon photos

I'm still accumulating all the images from our 3 cameras, and awaiting some images from our other attendees.

The guy with a shaved head is 's brother Brian. His dad officiated the wedding. Brian is autistic, and wandered into shots on multiple occasions. It just adds a unique twist to an already unique wedding.

We made it home safely. I'm sore but happy.

A few more things:

* Gas was only $2.89 in some town just north of Flint. What a happy surprise when I was running on fumes.
* I would easily pay $20/night more for a hypoallergenic hotel room. I had serious issues with dust mites and the soap, shampoo, and conditioner. Serious enough where I woke up gasping for breath a few times last night. Yay for inhalers, but not cool.
* Butterflies are awesome.
* I'm not sure I really missed the internet all that much. That's a great thing.
* We need to get the oil changed before we go back to West MI this weekend for Renee's bridal shower.

I have site installs tomorrow and friday.

I need to pay for fall semester next week.

I'm glad to be back.

I'm tired as hell and going to work tomorrow would suck if I totally didn't love my job.

I've never been this happy in a long time.

* Sprint's roaming partner in the UP delivers/allows sending of SMS. woo.
* GSM roaming is still more awesome than CDMA. I honestly was unaware that my blackberry was roaming until I popped the sim into my laptop card.
* Nobody takes debit cards in the UP.
* The Sault St. Marie Locks have all sorts of menacing Department of Homeland Security stuff around them, and you are subject to search even being in the observation area. (Again, only because I read the signs, not because I found this out firsthand)
* Every hotel but mine has "free wireless internet". I think it's a good thing that I'm forced to use the internet sparingly though.
* I can't spell Tahquamenon Falls.
* When state parks say "nature walk", they absolutely mean it in every sense possible.
* There are few things more important to carry in your pack than Naproxen Sodium.

* lcp-echo-interval 0 is your friend when trying to stay connected to the internet using cell phones or GPRS modems of any sort in linux. LCP Echo is evil and will always screw up a perfectly good IP session, no idea why 🙂

* When you're in St. Ignace, and want to view a first run movie, don't ask the locals where the nearest first run theater is, they'll just laugh at you. Snakes on a Plane? Well, we have snakes, and we have planes…..

* Ditto with Meijer.

* It costs $9 to change your name at the Secretary of State.

* The Kewadin gold tokens only work in special slot machines, ones that won't take the casino player card, though you can continuously insert the thing forever trying, since they don't bother to label that on the machine anywhere.

* Tribes have their own police department. Fortunately, it wasn't me or mine that found this out the hard way. I just giggled as I drove past.

* Finding food after 10pm here is non-trivial.

* It is still possible to walk into a bar in the state of Michigan, and have EVERY SINGLE PERSON STOP WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND TURN TOWARD YOU. Go to Garden, MI and try this.

* Garden, MI and Garden City, MI are polar opposites (though I knew this beforehand, though not how truly different they were 🙂 )

* Only the nickel slots are honest at Kewadin. The rest won't let you cash out just your winnings, or play a nickel at a time or whatever. (and it IS possible to make a profit playing slots if you know what you're doing)

* It is possible to get SBC to install a POTS line at a campground in a ghost town. I can't imagine how much flack you must get filing the service order, but someone managed to do it. Color me impressed.