Stories from the Road
October 26, 2014
Alexandria, VA.

The sun was out again today in Alexandria, providing citizens with another beautiful fall day. The wedding party is scattered amongst several hotels in the area, and as we began our walk to Old Town for breakfast, we ran across a number of people we had met last night at the rehearsal dinner.

One man from Chappaqua, New York told me he use to drive his red convertible up a public road, which ended at the Clintons’ house. The secret service would come racing out and tell him he was out of bounds, and then he would remind them that he was on a public road. With a smile I told him he was a troublemaker, and that I could relate to that.

The wedding was a big success. Held in an outdoor park by the Potomac, the ceremony went like clockwork. Krissy arrived in a white Rolls. A friend of the couple married them. Krissy and Andrew wrote their vows. Since all the parties were newscasters, writers, or reporters, needless to say the speeches were exceptional.

Buses took us back to the hotel, and we walked a couple of blocks to the reception, where calamari, oysters, cold cuts, and smoked salmon greeted us.  The bar was open. Later we sat down to a lobster and filet mignon dinner. Toasts, dancing, and a professional slide show of the couple through time followed. It was a wedding amongst weddings. The bride, who I have known since birth, was gracious, poised, warm, and funny. She is what you would want your daughter to be.

At dinner I sat next to a man from Maryland, who had done an across Scotland canoe race with a friend. He kept using words like “hard corps, but fun.” At one point the racing team was hypothermic and hallucinating, when they pulled ashore to sleep and get warm. The hard corps description seemed right, but I don’t know about the fun.

As the bride and groom danced and socialized, Vicki and I headed out to our hotel. We both agreed that Andrew and Krissy along with their parents had been generous hosts, who wanted their guests to have a memorable experience. They succeeded in their wishes. On Monday Andrew and his new bride fly to Italy to vacation in Sorrento, Capri, and Rome.