11:00am the next morning I left the Fort Wayne home and headed off for Flint, Michigan. The drive was close to 3 hours long. The wedding wasn't taking place until Sunday afternoon, but there was a family Hog Roast that I was invited to for the Saturday. I arrived at this massive campground 15 minutes early. However I showed up at the campsite 10 minutes late. Why? There was a huge line to get into the campground (with at $12 fee). I was in line for nearly 25 minutes. The good thing was that they didn't actually start at the time they had said, as many people were late. The Hog Roast was a combination of Shirley's (the soon-to-be bride) annual family reunion and Lawson's (the soon-to-be groom) side of the family. I've never actually seen a hog roast, I don't think. I mean I've seen many in cartoons where a full pig is cooked and an apple is placed in it's mouth, but never in real life. Well, they didn't put an apple in it's mouth, but it was just about everything else. The took a full pig and put it in a roaster and cooked it up. When I got there, they had taken the pig out and were starting to cut up the meat.
When I first got there I met up with 2 of the family members from the family I knew in Canada. Shortly after the rest of the family showed up as well. They introduced me to many people that I no longer remember their names nor connections. However I do remember one of the cousins (I think) names, Mark. That is only because I talked with him a bit more and he came with us after the meal to go paddle boating with the rest of the kids. After boating for a half an hour we went swimming at the little beach they had. It was actually a lot of fun and time flew by really quick. Before long it was 7, coming up on 7:30pm, so I left before the rest of the family did, as I had yet a 3 hour drive ahead of me coming back to Indiana. Below are some pictures from boating followed by the details of the wedding on Sunday.
Sunday morning, I left Indiana around 9:15am and drove the 3 hours up to Flint again to attend the wedding. The wedding was an unusual one. After sitting down just minutes before the wedding started, I found out that it was a double wedding - 2 other older folks were getting married as well. Both "weddings" happened at the same time and it didn't flow super smooth, but it still went well. I say it didn't flow that smoothly just because their (basically) first rehearsal, was the wedding itself - there was no rehearsal before hand. But it was good. Other than the family from Canada that I had gotten to know, and the grandpa (who was getting married) also from Canada, I didn't know anyone else that was there.
After the wedding we drove a few minutes down the road to The American Legion, where the place was rented out for the reception. This was also very good and though there was only around 50 or so people there, there seemed to be enough food for at least double that. And yet I did leave early again, around 4:15pm, I did really enjoy my time. I then drove 3 hours back to Indiana and spent the night with the Stuckey's. I spent the night again at there house, and I plan to stay all day today and spend the night again tonight. My plan is to leave tomorrow to head back to Illinois.
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