My daughter told me about this song which is apparently the hardest piano song in the world and impossible for a human to play (although the one video below claims to do it).
Sunday March 5 is our 20th wedding anniversary and there’s a fitting story from our Mexican Beach Wedding for Secular Sunday.
We used a wedding coordinator in Mexico to make arrangements including specifically requesting a non-religious officiant.
The guy showed up the day of our ceremony and it was clear that he actually was *quite* religious – with his comments and a few other things he did/brought – but we were locked in.
Luckily, we (well, I – Shea called me “bridezilla” for a reason!) had scripted the whole ceremony so as long as he stayed on script, there was little chance of a prayer or invocation or blessing sneaking in.
We got through the ceremony and I think it was right around the time that the picture below was taken where the wind came up and there were even a few light drops of rain.
“Oh, that’s just God blowing your love around the world,” he quipped. Shea and I laughed that he simply couldn’t help himself and it was so pure and unrehearsed that we even forgave him (how Christian of us!). Of course, for twenty years, have used this as a catch-phrase whenever the wind comes up at an inconvenient time.
(I also chuckle at the thought of God blowing anything at our wedding!) 😉
After our recent 20th Anniversary Trip, we have gained another new catch phrase: “Vamonos as we always say in Colorado!” but I’ll wait for my Grand Sirenis review to share that story!
Yes, I technically quit drinking booze at the end of last August (but with the caveat that I *mostly* quit which allows me to still imbibe occasionally – or more than occasionally if I’m at an all-inclusive resort!)
But yes, this drink we invented a few years ago after a full day on the beach in Varadero which ended with us as the only people left on the beach is a great counter-point to the famous “Tequila Sunrise.”
In Cuba, it was simply heavily blended rum cream and ice that we were drinking. In Mexico, I improvised and had it made with Baileys and Kailua and yum – boozy milkshake! 🙂
(Oh, and I’m not a big wheel dropping $20 tips. That’s 20 pesos which is like a buck fifty at current exchange rates. Honestly, I think part of the subconscious reason Americans and Canadians like all-inclusives is it’s a way to feel rich when you aren’t – leaving 20 and 50 and even 100 peso tips like you’re Puff Daddy or something.)
The Flames have *sucked* this year – terrible goaltending, terrible coaching decisions, players not performing up and down the lineup, boring hockey, losing a league-leading number of one-goal games, only team in entire NHL to not have a comeback victory when trailing going into the third, and also sucking in 3-3 overtime (if they’d won even half the dozen or so games they lost in OT, they might still be squeaking into the playoffs. Hell, I don’t think the NHL tracks this but would swear they’ve set a record for hitting posts!)
As is frequently the case, they’re a bubble team and so the NHL Trade Deadline, where a team might load up for a final push or accept their fate and sell of assets, is where the Flames made perhaps the most boring trade in Flames history – two grunt brothers for each other along with an exchange of crappy d-men.
Heck, I’d think this trade is just to save money on getting a name plate made for a jersey as much as anything!
The resort we were just at was almost all the way to Tulum (which is two hours south of Cancun.). Our resort was about an hour and a half south of the Cancun airport.
Since I said Indigo/Violet were being combined in my Rainbow Challenge, I was hoping to do a final post for day seven of some multi-coloured drinks – the Bob Marley and the Toucan we had at Moon Palace were the drinks I had in mind…
Unfortunately, the drinks I got weren’t quite as perfectly formed…
