Like a warm handshake from an old friend...

Last weekend Nancy and I headed downstate for my buddy Dan Weglinski's (Ski) wedding. Ski was a teammate of mine in college. He was a right handed pitcher with a ridiculous 12-6 curveball. He also happened to graduate from the same program as I did (although he graduated with a 3.9 GPA, and mine was...well, not a 3.9). Anyways, the wedding was Sunday night on Long Island. Similar to our wedding, there was a strong presence from RIT Baseball alumni, so a bunch of us decided to make a weekend of it. Nance and I drove down to Fairfield, CT Friday afternoon. Nancy stayed there until Sunday with her friend Natalie. Lucas picked me up on his way into Manhattan (where his girlfriend Lindsay lives) Friday night, and we met up with Ware and Adam Gerantine (another teammate who lives in Hoboken, NJ) Friday night. Since the Yankees weren't in town, we decided to opt for a Mets game on Saturday afternoon.

Left to right - Lucas, Ware, Joe B, Knodel and I. Overall the game was a great time. Following the game we went to a restaurant where Jen's (Joe's wife) friend works at in Manhattan. We had some good food and drink to cap off an awesome day.
Joe and Jen B. Joe will be Mayor of Rochester some day, mark my words, you heard it here first. He's a huge Mets fan and this was his first trip to the new Citi Field as well. Other than the Mets losing, I think he had a good time. Oddly enough, Jen is a diehard Red Sox fan...the hats you'll wear through love I guess...

Upon waking up on Sunday, we headed straight out to Long Island to make sure we didn't get caught up in any traffic. The wedding was great - the ceremony was at the church that Courtney grew up in, the priest actually also married her parents. The reception was at an awesome location at a country club on Long Island. In general, the usual shenanigan's occurred that typically occur when you put the Lucas-Ware-Knodel-Colin-Joe-Marty combo together. Strangely enough (insert sarcasm), we were all seated together in the back corner, but also strategically located three feet from the bar (Thanks Ski). Everyone had an awesome time and I can't be happier for Ski and Courtney, they compliment eachother very well (meaning, she's normal and he's not)...but, he's been an overachiever his whole life and only continues that trend with Courtney.

That's Ware and his girlfriend Erin, who's also a Sam Adams rep. Needless to say, there were zero Sam Adams left in the entire country club by about 9pm with most of the damage being done by table 19.
Joe and Jen B at the cocktail hour.
Left to right - Nancy, Lindsay and Jen. They were clearly embarrassed to be associated with the rest of us.
Wedded Bliss - Ski and Courtney.
This is the RIT Baseball crew in attendance with the exception of Knodel and Sarah.

Overall, it was an awesome weekend and, as always, great to see all my college buddies. It was the first time hanging out with this crew since my wedding. It was, as they say, "like a warm handshake from an old friend..." (so was the glass of Jack Daniels that Lucas handed me after the country club ran out of Sam Adams).

Since getting back into town, we had our year-end sales meeting at work, which meant a lot of work functions every night this week. I've also been trying to ride a lot, I've managed to squeeze in 170 miles in the last 3 days. I believe things will normalize slightly and I can get back into a semi-normal routine for a few weeks anyways. Miraculously, I've been able to train a decent amount for the past few weeks and am really looking forward to the Tour of the Catskills in a couple weeks and the Green Mountain Stage Race later this summer.