I’ll post the facts as they emerge and (maybe) wedding musings/ideas, so come back! Alternatively, you could wait for the invitation or call either one of us.
Port Townsend…
Is a lovely little town on the Olympic peninsula. Check out ptguide.com for it’s illustrious history and other important facts. All I know is that it was slated to be the big hub port (ie Seattle) until “they” decided “they’d” like a more inland port. Port Townsend was spared urbanity.
Traveling to Port Townsend:
It’s about a 2 hour drive from Seattle by ferry (fun!) or 3 hour drive around the Puget Sound. Either way, you’ll fly into Seattle and probably want to rent a car (there is also a shuttle from the airport to Port Townsend). The best way to get from Seattle to Port Townsend is via the Seattle to Bainbridge Island car ferry and then driving from Bainbridge Island to Port Townsend. This is a beautiful and scenic drive. I’m sure we’ll be in touch with everyone about travel plans, so ride sharing can be arranged.
Chetzemoka Park:
This is where we’ll be getting married. It’s beautiful and right on the sound. I love the following depiction of the park.
Accommodations:
The Port Townsend City Guide website has a list of places to stay in Port Townsend.
I’ve actually reserved several of the old officer’s houses in Fort Worden State Park for guests to stay. I thought that it would be nice for our guests to room near each other in an awesome location. Fort Worden is cool, with easy beach and forest access. There are a lot of old bunkers and gun mountings in the forest. The best part, by far, is the maze of completely dark secret corridors between bunkers that allows for nighttime travel without being seen by the enemy. E-mail to let us know if you’re interested in staying here. We’ve reserved enough space for about 30 people, and it will be around $30 per person/night.
Other options include:
Camping at Fort Worden State Park, or staying in the nearby hostel.
The Bishop Victorian Hotel consists of suites so good for people who may not have a lot of money to spare and would like share with others. This hotel also allows children.
Manresa Castle is good if you are a future I-banker and like to sleep in style.
Holly Hill House has a wide range of rates and possibilities for people. It is also situated uptown so it is a bit more quiet.
If you are feeling free with the moola and want a nice view, The Old Consulate Inn or The James House.
The Palace Hotel has a colourful history, good rates and a good location.
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As the father of the bride, some say putative, but no more, the moment to come, 30 years pushed off the shore, fills finally the patient sails with the fickle wind, toward the endless horizon. Part of me viaja (I simply do not know if journies is a word) too in this voyage without surcease, to a destination without a destiny, into an uncharted future. But of course with a 12 year courtship, there's bound to be a rudimentary pilot's map somewhere onboard to avoid the reefs. May the vessel withstand the crashes of the waves, may the wind be faithful and steady, for in this tiny ship all our hopes and dreams lie. What my parents were and meant to me is in you now and in that journey and were and will always be, to go with you in your lifetime and to end where you began, and know it when you arrive perhaps truly, for the first time.
For Natan whose wedding it is too, and for Lee, whom I love with all my heart, although we fight like cats and dogs:
But we by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is, inter-assur'd of the mind.
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss,
Our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go,
(this is a valediction forbidding mourning)
endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion, like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show to move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
J. Donne
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