Day 1: Trip and wedding

So, the trip started off on a dreadful note: Thursday night, the eve of my trip, my iPod died! Had it been a few days later, I would be happily walking into the Apple store and buying the new iPod classic (which I now proudly own). However, at that point I was facing a 5.5 hr trip with basic radio which fades out in the rural part of I-85. After about 2 hours of trying to resuscitate it without success, I prayerfully succumbed to driving without it.
The Lord blessed the trip by allowing me to zone out for most of the drive while going 80-85 mph almost the whole way. As always, my first stop in High Point was Chick-Fil-A, home of the best sweet tea in the world. There, I met my big sister with her son, who has grown like a weed since I last saw him, and her new baby daughter.

We had a few minutes to chat and catch up, and then I had to run off to help Ashley, the bride, to get ready. She is perhaps one of the quirkiest friends I have, so getting her ready for the wedding was hilarious (e.g. picking up her wedding dress from the cleaners on the way to the church:). We finally got her ready, and she looked truly luminous.

Right before the wedding, one of my closest friends arrived with her lumberjack-looking boyfriend. I haven't seen this girl in over a year while she was living her post-college life in Honduras. There were some other college friends at the wedding, so we had a lot of fun catching up.