poland day 14 - the wedding

july 28, 2007

today was the wedding. i've never been to a jewish wedding before. i was excited.

before the wedding, in the morning, oren and anja organized a trip into warsaw. first stop was lazienki park (pronounced wah-zhen-kee). it was a nice large park with the summer home of the king in it. griff, melissa, floor (a hollander) and i walked around it and marveled at the amount of peacocks that were in the park.

next, the tour went to warsaw old town. for those that didn't know, warsaw was almost completely destroyed in world war 2. the germans decided to punish the poles for resisting and bombed the whole city. only 10% remained after the bombing. warsaw old town was then reconstructed by the communists to replicate almost exactly the city as it once stood. it's a little bizaar - old town looks old, but yet it looks like it's 60-years-old instead of 300-years-old.

i really liked warsaw. i'd like to come back when i have more time to spend here.

the wedding was in the evening. i put on my tailored chinese suit and headed to the ceremony. i looked hot. the wedding was very intersting. some of the traditions i'd seen before in movies and such, some i had not. i enjoyed it. mozel tov!

after the wedding, we danced in circles and then lifted the bride and groom in chairs and carried them around. then we did the groom's parents. then we did the bride's parents. by the end, my arms hurt.

the reception was a blast. we drank, drank some more and danced.