As you can tell I'm a bit off the usual weekly blog. That is due to travel to lovely Wyoming to attend the wedding of my niece, Mari, to David - a strapping West Point graduate as you can tell from the photos (remember Mari is in some serious heels for the photos). For those keeping track of the Eisenhart genealogy chart - Mari is my brother's oldest child. Mari and David met as grade schoolers in Newcastle, WY and as love knows no bounds managed to reconnect. Anyway, enough romantic gushing - we had a great trip out to Wyoming with our flight arriving on time into Denver where we met up with my sister (Cheryl - again for those wanting to track the genealogy - don't know why you would want to track that, but that's your problem) and then had an exciting drive up I-25 to Cheyenne. There was a great light show going on as storm clouds were off to the north putting on a tremendous lightening display for about 45 minutes of the trip. Little did we know that the storm we were enjoying was dumping 5 inches of hail in Cheyenne. We pulled into my brother's driveway and had to stop to check if we were really seeing snow on the ground in June. After that the weather improved and we had mostly sunny skies for the remainder of the week, most importantly an absolutely perfect day on the day of the wedding. 
Not much to report on the actual wedding - bride came down aisle, father gave her away (which leads me to ask, why doesn't the mom get a key role in that process - I mean she carried her inside for 9 months for goodness sake), standard Catholic ceremony, announce husband and wife, and cheering from the crowd. The rest of the weekend consisted of catching up on family news and gossip along with a session of opening wedding gifts from which I'm proud to say Mari and David's friends did their best to get the economy moving again. We came on home on Monday with another on time delivery - way to go United.
Last week was a busy work week for both of us with a bit of travel for Joann and an internal Pfizer symposium for me. My talk and poster at the symposium went off OK and the meeting I had planned for the day after the symposium went off without any major hitches. So all in all a successful week. Get to enjoy a shortened work week this week which adds a nice bonus to this week - gee 2 for 2, I could get to like this.
Haven't seen the garden since we have been back, but our weather remains way below normal in temperature and above normal for rain. So, I'm not too hopeful on the success of all the seeds we planted just before we left. But it is nice to know that Connecticut is becoming a temperate rain forest thereby doing its part to restore the natural balance of carbon dioxide and staving off global warming.
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