lafayette and mara's wedding

drove up to lafayette
hung out a bit with nick and adrienne
sat morning got up butt-early and drove an additional 2.5 hours up to south bend for mara's wedding
ended up getting there late
slid into a pew and watched the rest of the ceremony
called josh but he was out of town
strolled around campus reading my book and generally wasting time
beautiful campus, but all the statues and overwhelming religiocity of it turned me off
went to the reception and sat next to frankie (who i hadn't really hung out with before other than when the group of them were doing hw together and i swung by) and some people mara works with
i knew the bride, her sister, the maid of honor, and frankie, so it was a little weird for me, but i made the most of it
tried to dance (the best part!) but they had a bunch of the 'special' dances and then a few really bad songs, and then a crapload of slow songs (yeah, not exactly gonna slow dance by myself) then a few decent songs so i got out there (whoo!) and then... horror of horrors, the hokey pokey, macarana, electric slide, and chicken dance (no group dancing!) a couple more decent songs, and then back to a huge block of slow songs (which frustrated me, but that's what the majority of the people came on the floor for, so the dj was trying to play what people wanted)
then adrienne called because she had been a little north of there in michigan for a cousin's wedding reception (but i don't think the wedding was that day) and she was heading down through south bend on the way back
i met up with her and we wandered down grape st looking for some food (but it was pretty late so we settled on arby's) and then headed back
i was leading and tired and a little lost, so when i saw the sign for the highway i wanted about 2 blocks before a major road, i assumed that was the road i wanted, but that road was a one-way in the wrong direction, so we had to quickly turn around and continue down the road (crazy drivers)
eventually we got going and we made it about 2 miles out of lafayette on 25, when there were some flashing lights ahead
i pulled up behind a car stopped in the road and saw 3 fire trucks, 2 ambulances (one of which drove away as we arrived) and a tow truck all with flashing lights blocking the road
a group of firefighters (at least 7) were standing around an electric pole where you could jsut barely catch glimpses of a car wrapped around it (opposite side of the road from us)
so after sitting there for about 15 minutes, i pulled out my phone, brought up google maps (hells yeah google maps on my phone!!) found an alternate route that added about 12 miles, and got us back to lafayette at about 3 in the AM
very tired
so by the time i got up sunday i didn't do a whole lot before driving back home