Weddings

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five At risk of boring everyone to tears, I’m writing one last post about our time in Chile.  Our group was now down to John and me, his mom, and my folks.  After getting our bags mostly packed that last morning,...
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Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | We’d been so impressed by Sunday’s tour to the coast that our group arranged for the same guide and driver to take us on Monday to see some of the Andes mountains. We packed a picnic lunch and took off after a...
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After the wedding, the lovebirds took off for a honeymoon in Patagonia, leaving the rest of us to our own devices. Israel’s mom and siblings still had two days in Chile, and John and I and our parents had three more days, and we weren’t about to waste the time.  Sunday morning our entire...
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Photos by David Shirk of Unplugged Photography and Israel Shirk of Avalanche Photography.  (Shirk family photo by moi)
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Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five Erika and Israel chose to be married at a really gorgeous park in Santiago called Cerro Santa Lucia.  There was some discussion about how to get there, all dressed up in our wedding finery.  But since it was only a...
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Part One | Part Two John started the morning by walking Erika to the subway stop so she could go pick up Israel from the airport.  I think we were all holding our breath that he (the last member of the wedding party) would get there without a problem.  When John got back, David,...
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Part One Friday evening we gathered in front of the hotel to get cabs to the restaurant. With 9 of us, we figured we’d only need two. But when five of us tried to cram into the first cab, the driver shook his head disapprovingly and pointed to a sign on the front windshield...
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(Prologue to this story) The location:  Santiago, Chile, 10-15 hours flying time for most of the guests The wedding party: John and me, parents of Erika Ann, mother of Israel Hazel and Ron, my parents Marcia, John’s mom David and Sandra, Israel’s brother and sister Gina, Erika’s Chilean host mom Random things we learned:...
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As I begin to write to you about our trip, I need to tell you about the dual challenge I was working under. First, the normal blogger’s challenge: how do you take readers along on a trip without telling the whole world you’re out of your house? Even if everyone at home is well...
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