MACS wrote:Frank!!
How was da weddin'?
It was a great time, 100% outside on the grounds of the Hemingway Home and Museum.
Very pretty area for the ceremony, followed by great apps at an area near the back with it's own bar, and the dinner/music/dancing areas on the side yard...all top shelf. And the cigars were a hit...thank you very much!
And open bar all night...natch!
It was a bit warmer than customary but for all of us anything close to normal would have been hot...but it was like 89 all afternoon. Pretty humid. Might have set a temp record for Key West.
My hotel was directly across the street, but other than ease of getting home after the wedding it left a lot to be desired.
Switched our room after the first night but the wing where we moved to lost hot water that day and it took three days to fix the problem! Cold shower the day of the wedding...but as I told TLC, if that's the worst problem we ever have, we're living a pretty charmed life.
I believe my calm yet firm style of discussion worked better for compensation than the angry toned methods employed by some of our neighbors...I was refunded a little more than half of our hotel charges, which was a little more than I had in mind.
We spent 5 days there then drove with the friends you met in SD (Bonni and Ricky) to Miami. They flew home that night from there and we spent two days with one of our best friend's from high school and his wife...we totally love them...so it ended well. Treated them to a wonderful dinner at a local Peruvian restaurant, bought a big jug of Basil Hayden which had a dent in it by the time our second night ended...good time.
Flight home had delays and stuff but we lived to tell about it, so I guess that's the numbah one goal.
