After 11,361 mornings of waking up a single man, today I woke married to a wonderful girl. But with all the adrenaline from last night still rushing, I only managed to get 4 hours of solid sleep. When both of us were ready to get up, we hopped in the jacuzzi for 5 minutes to unwind a little. Then, with the help of Jim and Sandy, we moved all our belongings out of the room and were checked out by 9:30am.
From there we went back to my parents' house, where a morning brunch was scheduled for between 10 and noon. Since I didn't have a change of clothes at the hotel, the first order of business was to change into yesterday's civies. We then waited as people streamed into the house over the course of an hour. In the meantime, Heather and I opened up the remainder of cards and gifts received last night. The guys also assembled their tuxedos and Mike volunteered to return all seven of them on their way to Aylmer. What was noticeably different about today was the weather. As opposed to our wedding day, it was sunny and much warmer. Guess luck wasn't on our side this time but we were glad that we didn't have Friday's rainy, cold weather on our special day.
The brunch was great as my mom had prepared various sandwiches, muffins and other goodies. Then reality checked back in and everyone started the process of returning to their lives. For Kim and Mike it included going to Aylmer to pick up little Jolene and for someone like Darryl and Erin their focus can now shift to the arrival of their twins in less than a month. We finished moving gifts from Jim's car to ours, and he also, along with Sandy and her parents, were off to Sudbury. Heather and I were pretty much the last to leave at 12:15. But before we went home, we stopped at a bank to deposit the money from our guests' very generous gifts. Surprisingly the bank was open and we were able to exchange a think wad of $20 bills for $100s for a smoother deposit into the machine.
When we finally got home, it took us a couple of hours to pack but after stopping at a gas station, we were officially on our honeymoon at 3:10pm. Today's trip was only as far as Cornwall before reaching our final destination of Stowe, Vermont tomorrow. Without a single stop, we covered the 533km trip in 4 hours and 40 minutes at a brisk average of abouth 115 km/h. We encountered very few slowdowns, even in the notoriously busy Toronto. In and around Kingston we passed three cruisers including one on its way to an accident scene that happened just seconds before we passed the scene. Heather spent the majority of the trip asleep. What kept me company was the Buffalo-Carolina game on AM590 from pregame to first quarter, and on AM1180 from second to third quarter. Matt Good's Hospital Music provided the soundtrack for the last 1.5 hours of the trip.
We checked in to Best Western in Cornwall at 8pm and spent the rest of the evening catching up on e-mails, uploading wedding photos etc. We each also had a chicken bacon ranch wrap from our room service menu before going to bed at close to midnight.
You will be much further north in Vermont than we have been. We've traveled through a small portion of the Green Mountain National Forest, which is located at the southern part of the state. We travel through Vermont whenever we go see Bob's sister who lives in New Hampshire. Have a great time, and take LOTS of pictures!
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