Wedding in the Immediate Friend Group

 

Kat and Conrad are working together now. It was a great weekend and so many little moments packed into such a short time. A lot of life got put into a finer perspective this weekend. We are all growing older into another chapter of life, through our twenties and growing ever more mature. I'm so glad my speech was well received and I was able to be a good Best Man for Conrad and Kat.

So many things were perfect and reminded me of their shared interests. The ceremony was sweet and personal in the best way and now those two are off to Europe for a honeymoon. 

Here is an important part of my speech about Conrad

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He is a fundamentally kind person and I have always sought to surround myself with more people like him. Because he builds up the people around him, and that is something I deeply respect and do not forget about him.

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I met Conrad after we both arrived at MIT. He and I lived down the hall from each other and one of my earliest memories of us being friends happened around 3 AM one night, over a month after we arrived on campus. — That night, we found ourselves with some of our new pals at an IHOP on the North Shore of Mass eating as many pancakes as we could, after skinny dipping in the cold Atlantic ocean. If we could jump together into that near freezing water, joke around, and then fight to see who could eat 12 large pancakes, we could get along, be friends, and we could push through MIT together. He made me feel, for the first at MIT, like I was part of a group. And that is an amazing skill.

"""

It was icing on the cake that Coyote could be there too and she is doing so well in a new job.

The venue hall and ceremony courtyard

Another Swiss Trip plus Italy

 

I went to Switzerland again last month to pick up Coyote and come back to the US with her. She finished her thesis with flying colors and afterwards, we took the train into Italy. It was a wonderful trip with some great travelling partners. We stopped by Lucerne on the way and I got a great view of the city.

Italy was a blast. We got to travel with one of C's friends and her Italian boyfriend. Obviously, it is great to travel with someone who knows the country and language. The cathedrals, night time walks, food, and everything else was a dream. I will be returning at some point. I liked that we were able to stop by some of the lesser crowded points of the Tuscan countryside. Agriturismos are the way to visit that part of the country. I learned all 20 regions of Italia and now I need a reason to eventually see them all.

After the trip, Coyote sent me on a fun quiz to visit the statues of Geneva. Here is Gandhi's.