Rhianna Banana

weddings

This past summer, Pierre and I went to two weddings, one in Indianapolis and the other in Framingham, Massachusetts. The Indianapolis wedding was for his cousin Amy. Here we are standing with Pierre's parents Dennis and Ellen outside at the reception.
The bride and groom rode from the church to the reception in horse-drawn carraiges. I liked the glittery paint on the horses' hooves.
Nice and green!
Amy and her husband (I already forgot his name) greeting their guests after the ceremony.
In between weddings, Pierre and I went to Kansas City. Pierre was born in a suburb of Kansas City and lived there until his family moved to Chicago when he was 12. We visited the art museum, which is free! There are a bunch of cool sculptures outside the museum, like these shuttlecocks.
We also visited Union Station, which houses a children's museum. It reminded me of Union Station in DC.
There was a railroad model in Union Station, and we had to stop and take a picture of this particular line, since it is the one that my dad drove when we lived in Chicago.
Over Labor Day weekend, we went up to Framingham to attend our friends Matt and Rachel's wedding. The day after their wedding, they hosted a 5k fun run. Our table assignment cards were also running bibs, which we were encouraged to wear for the race. The rest of our table were a bunch of bums who slept in, so only Pierre and I represented for table 3. Go table 3! Here we are with the bride and groom, wearing our special running/wedding t-shirts.
Before it got cold here, Pierre and I were trying out different bike paths around town. My favorite bike path is the Hudson River trail. We also tried biking along the East River and in Queens. Here's a picture from the Triborough bridge which we biked over to get from Manhattan to Queens. We also tried a tandem bike, which we didn't really like. I rode behind Pierre and he is so tall that I couldn't see anything other than his back the whole time.
The fountains around the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park were turned on for the U.S. Tennis Open. We didn't go to any of the meets this year, but maybe next year.
Another trip I made this summer was to Philadelphia to hang out with Nathan, Julia, Sasha and Malaya. We amused ourselves in a walk through a park by posing Malaya in front of animal statues. Here she is facing off against a venomous snake! She doesn't look very happy with us. . . But how can we resist posing her and taking lots of goofy pictures? She's so cute!

posted by Unknown @ Sunday, September 21, 2008