Getting married, part two

Eric, Emerson and I are boarding a plane to Chicago today and hence the festivities will begin! Our Big Party to celebrate our wedding last October is on Saturday night with a wonderful group of friends and family. This will be followed by what we have dubbed our "white trash honeymoon": a week-long family RV adventure through Michigan.

As before any major life event, yesterday we did a brewery tour: this time it was Anchor Steam Brewery. The brewery is just a few blocks from our house and we can often smell them brewing up that delicious beer! We learned that Steam beer is beer that is cooled in big open vats on the brewery rooftop when refrigeration is not available. We also learned that, for a lot of good reasons, they no longer do it that way.

Our tour guide Kevin also told us a random story, as part of the tour, about a Polish guy who works there in the keg room. He was a professional boxer in Poland and was sitting in his living room one day when the doorknob started to turn - someone was going to break in! Our hero just sat in his chair and warned the potential intruder: "Easy to get in, very difficult to get out."