Wedding #2

This “summer” we have two weddings to attend. If you’ve been hanging out with me on the Conversations on the Porch Swing threads, you know that I often characterize them as the tale of two opposites. But, the grooms are my husband’s two best friends.

The first wedding was last month and the next wedding is in September. While planning for the first was simple since it was nearby (though more out in the tullies than we thought), this next wedding is what feels like halfway across the state near Austin (though that’s not quite accurate). But, we’re really excited about going. Of course, it’s 288 miles according to mapquest to what’s often considered the center of the state.

This in turns means that we have to make some serious plans for getting there and lodging. Problem is that even as of yet, I don’t feel completely confident I can make those plans. We will definetely be attending the wedding but I don’t know how many of us there will be. . . give me another month or month and a half or so and I bet I could tell you. It also means we don’t know how long we can be gone. If, by what seems to be a small miracle, we have children placed with us by then, they’ll still be in school.

We’ve managed to make our leave plans fit around the uncertainty and have left our self time to take a little vacation after the wedding. . . if we don’t have kids. Our bosses know that our plans are subject to change.

So now, I need to figure out the lodging. . . and really pretty soon. The wedding’s in a town that only has bed and breakfast’s. . . I don’t think that’s going to work both cost and #’s/ flexibility wise. So, we can either stay in Austin (ugh big city) or one of the two smaller towns between there and San Antonio. One is more expensive but often has great concerts (remember our Gruene Hall trip), the other has cheaper lodging but sometimes more traffic.

That kinda leads me to the rest of our time off and vacation ideas. I’m leaning towards staying in the cheaper of the two towns. This would leave us more money for the rest of the trip (which if extended, we’ll likely be camping). So, What do we do with the rest of our time if we have it???? We can certainly find things to do around there. But, then I realized we’re halfway across the state. . . which means a lot of other places suddenly became quite closer. Unfortunately, Debby’s is not one of the closer places. We’d also then be a straight shot to one of our favorite places in Oklahoma. (Which is like 350 plus miles from Austin area). So, since it’s looking more and more like we’ll be making this trip the two of us, what do we do? Where do we go?

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