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A Western Celebration

10/19/2016

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     ...Continued from yesterday:
      On Friday morning we returned to The Blanco Cafe several blocks up St. Mary's Street from our hotel (see post from  10/14/2016),

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....to join the local crowd for breakfast
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...where I had the biggest, fluffiest pancakes ever to grace a restaurant table,
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​...and Tom had an equally sizable and commendable bowl of oatmeal, which he doused with cinnamon, his spice of choice on  oatmeal.
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    After breakfast we had couple of hours before we'd be leaving San Antonio for Austin for the wedding  of Vince and Kathleen,
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​...the son and soon-to-be daughter-in-law of our good friends Birdie and Greg.
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...so we decided to take a final stroll along the River Walk.
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     Then we left for Austin, an hour-and-a-half drive north of San Antonio.
     We stayed along with the other wedding guests  at the lovely Austin Marriott South, just outside of downtown Austin.

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     Our room.
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​Our bathroom.
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     The wedding festivities officially began with the rehearsal dinner at the Rockin Y Ranch in the ranch's party barn, beautiful, spacious,
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​...and very Western.
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      The food was a fantastically delicious Tex-Mex buffet,
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...which we ate at picnic tables out on the light-strewn veranda.
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​     For dessert there were specialties of the two  home states of the bride and groom,
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​...Buckeyes, the chocolate-covered peanut butter delicacies - made by Birdie for the occasion - indigenous to Columbus, Ohio, the home town of the groom,
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...and key lime and chocolate pecan mini-pies, favorites of Kathleen's fellow Texans.
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     Then the guests spent the evening strolling the lovely grounds of the ranch,
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​...which over-looked the lights of Austin,
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...or playing pool,
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​...or horse shoes,
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​...or sitting around the fire pit,
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...or just enjoying the happy glow of the evening,
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      ...that emanated, of course, from the happy glow of two beautiful  young people about to begin their lives together.
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     To be continued...
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