Echoes.

Recently Abbey and I had the pleasure of visiting St. Louis to go yarn crawl. While that is exciting enough for me, somehow Jackie and I figured Abbey would need a bit more entertainment to keep from stabbing us in our sleep, and so we made plans to go to the City Museum (I’m saying this with an utter air of coolness to distract you from the fact that I was WAY more excited about the museum than the yarn to begin with.)

I’m sure that many adults can traverse these particular man-made caves with no trouble at all. But because I am… swarthy? and because I like Snack Packs, I really got a workout trying to keep up with Jackie and Lish Jr.

And that was before we went outside to the springs on stilts section. (Look at all those hidey-holes that you’re supposed to crawl around in, about, and around! You do that and THEN you slide down ginormous slides! It’s awesome!)

If you’re 5’10″ (and… a victim of gravity) like me, don’t try this at home.

But… if you’re ELEVEN… and SHORT… Try it so that your parents will be able to remind you forever of that One Time with the Rope Thing…

To really understand what we were dealing with here, I’ve obviously had to head over to Flickr.com and pull up some pics by those handy dandy tags… we went at night and apparently the dark is hard to see in.
Who’d have thought?

Three hours later, my thighs were burning, I was drenched in sweat, and all I could think about was marriage.

(I knew you were wondering on the origins of the fantastically original title!)

If anything could signify what marriage means to me, it’s concrete walls, and a jet plane on springs.
I threw the idea at Nicholas and he agreed. He thought he agreed to humor me throughout the odd conversation, but what he agreed to was a wedding in St. Louis and an after-rehearsal-dinner party at the City Museum.

Imagine this, my friends!
A few months/years/decades from now, my wedding album will contain such highlights as an adult ballpen fight and people screaming from here… which is exactly what I felt like doing at this exact point where in this picture, the girl I stole this tagged photo from was having the time of her life.
These things SWAY and CREAK and SHIMMY… HOW CAN SHE?!!?
But that’s neither here nor there… you haven’t seen the picture yet.

YES!

However, fortunately for me, that is EXACTLY what I want people to remember from my wedding weekend.

TOTAL ENCOMPASSING FEAR.