On Sunday the Fessers gathered at Rhea & Ryan's house in Grand Coulee. The house was beautiful. It still needs a lot of work but had a wonderful feel to it. The prairie view of Regina was amazing at sunset.
It was nice having the family all together like that and eating lots of BBQesque foods. The real shocker of the gathering- Ed is quite good at charades!
The ceremony was fast, beautiful, and painless. The bar opened a few minutes later and we had over two hours to enjoy the horseshoes, bacchii ball, fishing, and Bushwakker kegs.
Matt caught the big one. Thanks to Joice it slapped him right in the face!
To get the deets on the food click here to check out Jolene's Everyday Foodie Blog.
... damn fish...
The ceremony took place at 3:00 a few minutes after we pulled up. Just as we got to the venue, Truely Unique Country Weddings, the clouds finally lifted and bright sun shone down on the ceremony... could it get any better than this???
Can't believe Matt spent the whole day with Stella... What was he thinking?!? Thank God Mike was there. And Klempner. And Klempner (and Tracy)'s dog, Rocky.
Stella proved his frendmanship by setting an excellent party pace though.
Pictured above is Rocky... Stella was definitely too homely for my camera lens.
Hahaha
A few weeks ago we arrived in Regina. Our family met us at the airport and took us to Rock Creek for a late lunch- Bohemian on tap... Mmmmm... one of Matt's favourites. Later that night we decided to drive to Moose Jaw and go spaing at Temple Gardens Mineral Spa. We left our troubles in those mineral waters and started our holidays on a relaxing note.
After the bomb scare we got the hell out of town and all went to Coney Island. It only made sense as the temperatures hung around 30 degrees, the beach was the logical place to go.
The subway ride was long but worth it. We were almost immediately rewarded by the most famous hot dog stop in the world, Nathan’s Famous- home of the international hotdog eating contest, still in its original location. We ordered our chilli, cheese, bacon, onion, and sauerkraut covered hotdogs with fries and beer and ate them out on the picnic tables. The beer was cool and so was the sea air.
We walked the famous boardwalk with the backdrop of old amusement parks which creating classic picturesque scenery. We really chilled the hell out here. Talking to local fisherman and listening to a Latino band comprised of very old men on the dock was the flavour of the day.
When we got down to the actual beach we fell asleep in the sand for an unknown amount of time and woke up when Rick came back for us… really chill.
When we went back home after a day of cool relaxing on this scorching Sunday we went for dinner to a Japanese ramen restaurant on near Union Square- we don’t have these in Victoria or Regina so it was quite a treat. It was called Ramen Takumi (formally Ramen Setagaya) and it felt authentic from the Japanese woman servers to the towel-headed Japanese boy cooks. Cold noodles by the open window was the perfect finisher for a hot day like today.
