Memphis, TN: Ginger's Wedding

This weekend I went to my cousin, Ginger's Wedding. Most of my Dad's Cousins live in Tennessee which is where the wedding was held as you can guess from the title. Memphis is kind of cool. Their Airport though is really weird.

Well I am slow what can I say!!! To recap the day as best I can remember it... it was a long day I suppose. I got up at 4am for some reason half an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off. I took a shower and I was still way to early to leave for the airport I didn't want to go back to bed or anything so I thought to myself to just go to the airport, I can read there. (I still haven't finished the hairy potter book)

Anyway I get to the airport took a picture. Got to Atlanta at some early point that I had 3 hours before my flight to Memphis. I decided to go to concourse E where there is a bookstore there that in my opinion is the biggest one in the airport. I was looking for a specific book "A Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clark. This book is really good and I want my roommate to read it but he won't buy it. No book was there I thought it was there last time but didn't know if my roommate would read it at the time. The lady said there was a Bigger bookstore on Concourse D... well No it was not bigger and I had to wait for it to open too.

Next I know that between concourse T and A... hmm T&A... Oh wait ya umm there are statues and pictures of the African culture. I think they are trying to say something about atlanta but thats just me. So I decided to take some of these pictures.


Well this is all before 9am in the morning. Then I get on the plane as one of the last seats. Get to the Memphis Airport (see above picture) which is designed really weird. Don't really do to much till the wedding I ended up sleeping. We shopped for a gift using the gift registry at some expensive store. The wedding started at 7pm... at this point I have been up for 12 hours. I take some pictures at the wedding. Most turn out bad because my dad told me not to use flash till the end. I like this picture the best...

Almost immediately after the wedding everyone went to the reception which is about 15 minutes away. The reception was where things got weird to me. The food was what they called a "potato bar" really just think of a glass with mashed potatoes and then taco toppings. Thats the potato bar. The speeches were almost touching the Husband told a story I had heard before. I think it would have been nice to have someone there that remembered me except my immediate family... Later in the reception they brought a bunch of sorority sisters forward and they decided to have some chug drinking chant and passed the pitcher around... AT A WEDDING!!!! WTF???????? Well this is where I started to want to go home now. I am done... stuck up sorority sisters for brides maids and Fraternity brothers for the groomsmen. All probably have gotten together to have matches for each other before hand.. because thats how they work. They make sure that each person has someone as a match. What does this mean I don't know nothing really I could always ask someone to dance except that they did not like to dance and keep dancing they would only pick very specific songs to dance too then leave the floor then the older women would come on the floor dance and trade spots... All I have to say is that Friend weddings are probably going to be better then Family weddings. I will have to give warnings to my cousin who is getting married. I am supposed to be the best man. Oi... If you want more pictures let me know. If not thats fine by me, it just takes so long to load them!!!