International Relations
We are now in South Carolina in the US. Craig and Wendy caught a midday flight on Thursday from Ottawa to Atlanta and we followed them down in the evening. Our flight went via Toronto and we had a bit of trouble finding the hotel in Atlanta so it was late when we arrived and met up with Craig and Wendy and Stephen and Anne who’d flown in from the UK via a week in New York with their friends Pete and Tony.
The reason we all met up in Atlanta was because our friend Lee was marrying his USA girl, Mel. The wedding was in Mel’s home town so after the six of us had had breakfast in a mall we drove the couple of hours to Clemson, South Carolina.
We arrived at the hotel in Clemson at around lunchtime on Friday. We’d just got into our rooms when the phone rang and the receptionist told us we all had to go to the lobby as there had been a tornado warning! Naturally I grabbed our camera and ran outside looking for the twister. We must have been on the edge of the storm though as we just had a really bad downpour of rain for half an hour. We were worried that the weather might be bad for the wedding on Saturday, especially when, at Mel’s Uncle’s BBQ that evening we found out that the Southern states gets 15~20 tornados a month in April and May!
Mel didn’t seem concerned though and in the end the weather was wonderful for the whole wedding day. The ceremony was held in Clemson Botanical gardens and the reception was held in a marquee and the Botanical Gardens country house. Mel looked wonderful in her wedding dress, always a good choice of outfit for a wedding day, and even Lee scrubbed up well. The ceremony was moving, with readings from one of the bridesmaids and one of the groomsmen. Certainly it was too much for Lee as he tried to hold back the tears of joy when he saw Mel walking down the aisle. A day to remember. (See album 9a).
On Sunday we left Lee and Mel to enjoy the start of married life and the rest of the UK gang drove back to Atlanta to have a look round the city for a few hours before flying our separate ways. We went to the Cyclorama, a 40ft by 100ft oil painting of the American civil war and to the World of Coke (Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta). It was really nice to meet up with our friends from the UK and Sarah got teary and very homesick when we said goodbye.
The reason we all met up in Atlanta was because our friend Lee was marrying his USA girl, Mel. The wedding was in Mel’s home town so after the six of us had had breakfast in a mall we drove the couple of hours to Clemson, South Carolina.
We arrived at the hotel in Clemson at around lunchtime on Friday. We’d just got into our rooms when the phone rang and the receptionist told us we all had to go to the lobby as there had been a tornado warning! Naturally I grabbed our camera and ran outside looking for the twister. We must have been on the edge of the storm though as we just had a really bad downpour of rain for half an hour. We were worried that the weather might be bad for the wedding on Saturday, especially when, at Mel’s Uncle’s BBQ that evening we found out that the Southern states gets 15~20 tornados a month in April and May!
Mel didn’t seem concerned though and in the end the weather was wonderful for the whole wedding day. The ceremony was held in Clemson Botanical gardens and the reception was held in a marquee and the Botanical Gardens country house. Mel looked wonderful in her wedding dress, always a good choice of outfit for a wedding day, and even Lee scrubbed up well. The ceremony was moving, with readings from one of the bridesmaids and one of the groomsmen. Certainly it was too much for Lee as he tried to hold back the tears of joy when he saw Mel walking down the aisle. A day to remember. (See album 9a).
On Sunday we left Lee and Mel to enjoy the start of married life and the rest of the UK gang drove back to Atlanta to have a look round the city for a few hours before flying our separate ways. We went to the Cyclorama, a 40ft by 100ft oil painting of the American civil war and to the World of Coke (Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta). It was really nice to meet up with our friends from the UK and Sarah got teary and very homesick when we said goodbye.
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