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The Reception

Saturday night Andy and I ventured into the depths of New Jersey to attend his friend Cameron's wedding reception. We were initially supposed to take New Jersey transit but at the last minute another friend decided to drive so six of us crammed into a Ford Explorer and headed into the armpit of America. There was a TON of traffic on the way but it did give us time to study the lovely strip malls in New Jersey most of which were filled with sex stores and fast food chains. Also we got a little lost because apparently every town in that area of New Jersey has a Mountain Avenue.

Once we finally arrived everything was really nice. It was interesting mix of people since the groom's family is a military family from Alaska and the bride's family is Puerto Rican and from Queens. The couple, Cameron and Lisa, got married on Halloween but they still did all of the traditional reception stuff, first dance, cutting the cake, etc.. You know you're at a cool wedding when the bride and groom's first dance is to a Flaming Lips song. It was also a sit down dinner, the first sit down wedding reception I've been to. Four of us at the table got the vegetarian option for dinner which was funny because it was basically mixed vegetables thrown on some pasta because when you're a vegetarian all you eat is vegetables.

There was also open bar which was oh so nice. Andy didn't drink because he was the designated driver. Usually a couple of drinks loosens me up and makes me think I have a little bit of rythym and I'll get up and dance a little bit. However, holding your own against white people in Louisiana (which I can't do) is a little different from holding your own against Puerto Rican girls from Queens. Needless to say I did not get up to dance.

Labels: friends, new jersey

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