An eventful weekend

It was a glorious weekend full of happiness and love, and packed with all sorts of things I have never seen or done before.

Things I have never done before:

• Attended a legally-recognized same-sex marriage.
• Traveled east of Montreal.
• Stayed in a four star hotel.
• Ordered room service.
• Drank someting from a hotel room mini-bar.
• Seen Lake Michigan
• Been to Chicago (OK, does crossing between terminals in O'Hare count as "being in" Chicago?).

• Walked through the deeply moving Holocaust memorial across the street from Boston City Hall (You NEED to see this).
• Eaten at Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage on Harvard Square
• Held a chuppah pole.
• Been lost in a city that does not even remotely resemble a grid.
• Eaten Earl Grey ice cream (yummy!).
• Traveled 3000 miles to meet someone who lives in my own neighborhood.

• Seen the sun rise over an ocean (what can I say ... I'm a West Coast type to the core).
• Head a poem perfomed live about an octopus.
• Seen an improv fan dance to a Pink Matrtini tune.

Things I have learned first-hand this weekend:

• Apparently one must sneak up on the U.S.S. Constitution in order to see her. Mental note for next trip: pack ninja outfit.
• John Hancock has an entirely onomatopoeic name.
• The ability to say tongue-twisters can earn you cookies from a ghost.
• Boston cabbies are far friendlier than Tri-Met security guards at PDX. (What ever happened to "Portland Polite"?)
• A chuppah pole does 1d6+1 (does it get a bonus for being a religious object?)
• The Blazers did not manage to get rid of Z-Bo before he picked up a drug-using entourage.
• Finally learned what museumgirl, shanamadele, fawnapril, and pnsm really look like in person.

And, most important of all:

• Sometimes two brides are better than one.

Congratulations Kaphine and RealSuperGirl!