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Auburn Annie · 12-04-2009, 03:27 PM

Thank you all. The last of our guests leave in a few hours (Rich's brother and girlfriend from the Soo.) Their sister left yesterday to visit friends in Toronto before heading home to Winnipeg. The bride is home from school with a nasty head cold - asleep on the couch as I type - and RJ (the groom) drove 19 hours straight back to base in South Carolina with a truckload of dishes and small appliances to set up house.

The marriage certificate arrived today so now she can go around making name changes for bank accounts, credit cards etc. She leaves in 2 weeks for Charleston which means we still have 2 weeks of nuttiness gathering and sorting her clothes etc. to fit into the Jimmy (which her father is gifting to her - more paperwork) for the drive down.

She's got thank-yous to write, finals to study for, cleaning, packing, records to gather etc. so it's a good thing she decided NOT to roll straight into school again for spring semester but is waiting for either summer classes or fall semester. RJ's last training session which runs 6 months is not scheduled to begin until May, instead of January as originally planned, so he may be teaching at the base until his own hands-on course begins. After that he waits for deployment at sea for 6 months. Fortunately Rachel has an aunt who lives about 4 hours away in Atlanta, who would LOVE the company, so if she gets lonely she can go for a visit. This is the same aunt who lent the bride her own princess-cut diamond earrings and told her to keep them a while (days, weeks, months, whatever!)

12-04-2009, 03:27 PM	#5
Auburn Annie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 3,101	Re: We made it - she's married!! Thank you all. The last of our guests leave in a few hours (Rich's brother and girlfriend from the Soo.) Their sister left yesterday to visit friends in Toronto before heading home to Winnipeg. The bride is home from school with a nasty head cold - asleep on the couch as I type - and RJ (the groom) drove 19 hours straight back to base in South Carolina with a truckload of dishes and small appliances to set up house. The marriage certificate arrived today so now she can go around making name changes for bank accounts, credit cards etc. She leaves in 2 weeks for Charleston which means we still have 2 weeks of nuttiness gathering and sorting her clothes etc. to fit into the Jimmy (which her father is gifting to her - more paperwork) for the drive down. She's got thank-yous to write, finals to study for, cleaning, packing, records to gather etc. so it's a good thing she decided NOT to roll straight into school again for spring semester but is waiting for either summer classes or fall semester. RJ's last training session which runs 6 months is not scheduled to begin until May, instead of January as originally planned, so he may be teaching at the base until his own hands-on course begins. After that he waits for deployment at sea for 6 months. Fortunately Rachel has an aunt who lives about 4 hours away in Atlanta, who would LOVE the company, so if she gets lonely she can go for a visit. This is the same aunt who lent the bride her own princess-cut diamond earrings and told her to keep them a while (days, weeks, months, whatever!)