31 . August . 08 On 17 August our dear friends Brendan Healy and Melissa Rabelhofer were married in Seattle. Many of you know Brendan as our "middle son," a close friend of Dan and Dave's who spent enough time at our house over the years, we started taking him as a tax deduction. We are delighted they married -- Melissa's another extra deduction! Here is the happy couple at the reception with their officiant, Pip Gordon. A native of New Zealand, Pip was Brendan's theater mentor at Grinnell College, and they remain close friends. The reception was a terrific party! But first... The ceremony was held on a bluff high above Puget Sound with the sun beaming down and the Olympic mountains in the distance. We were honored to be asked to participate in the ceremony. L read a passage by Scott Raab titled "Let Us Now Praise Bacon." J read a piece by Elizabeth Nunez on the sensual pleasures of ice cream. They may not sound like classic wedding readings, but they characterized this very personal wedding. The elegant Lady M weds The Great Brendini! News & Notes We've moved to Tokyo. More next time. (Contact info is at the usual place.) On the wedding weekend our friends Ken and Shelley Burr hosted all five Snyders. In Dave's words, they suffered "an explosion of Snyders." It was pretty much all party all the time! J's water aerobics/coffee friends, Gwyn Fowler, Pirkko Borland and Karlla Sander, came to Vancouver for a day of touring. A glass of wine replaced the coffee, and the only exercise was walking around Granville Island and the VanDusen Gardens. Gwyn, Pirkko and Karlla Dave reports that he has had his poetry accepted for publication in the Denver Quarterly. J and Tomo drove the Prius from Seattle to Chicago in less than three days. Excitement along the way included free coffee in Broadus MT, seeing two states for the first time for Tomo (South Dakota and Wisconsin), and one flat tire. J got out in Chicago to visit Dave, and Tomo continued on to Dublin Georgia, arriving on the fourth evening after leaving Seattle! Time 6:05 AM We have finished digitizing our slides! That's approximately 8000 slides, but we won't make you watch them all.
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