We took a quick weekend to Pennsylvania to celebrate the wedding of a medical school friend of Chris'. I had never been to Pennsylvania so I was excited to see a little bit of Philly, especially where Chris had spent so many years and Chris was glad to have a reunion of sorts with his medical school group.
We got in Friday evening, and of course not without some trouble with the hotels and such, and hurried to rehearsal dinner. It was at a bar familiar to Chris and his friends. I was able to meet most of the entire lot of guys that lived in a medical school fraternity house together. I had heard a lot about them, but now I actually understand more when he talks about the different people. There was a short presentation by members of the wedding party and then everyone headed to the afterparty at the old frat house. I didn't take pictures, but should have, of where Chris lived. It is the perfect place for a bunch of single guys. We talked with everyone and played the most popular past-time game of beer pong (We had designated drinkers).
The next day we met with a couple of college friends, Ted and TJ, for breakfast. It was nice seeing Ted and Mindy and their kids, Georgia and Danny (who was wearing a Utah t-shirt). After a great breakfast we walked around downtown philadelphia and did some shopping.
Chris sat outside and read the paper while I took my time in one of the stores.
That afternoon we went to the wedding ceremony at a lovely church downtown. It was a beautiful ceremony and was nicely done. We wiled away the time before the reception at a nice bar, just relaxing and talking. Chris had fun catching up with everyone and I had a great time getting to know Liz, Chris Ward's wife, and Maura, Alex Gerhart's wife.
Here we are the reception dinner with Maura and Alex, Ross, Chris ward and Liz.
These Med-school guys look great as a bunch. I can just imagine all the fun they had together. There were a few who were in mourning over the recently deceased frat house cat, Booty, who saved them from the pesky R.O.U.Ses (rodents of unusual size). Donations were being made to have the cat stuffed and made as a permanent fixture in the house.
The reception was in a nice meeting house in main Philly. The food was wonderful and the speeches and presentations were well thought out. One of the highlights was Chris Ward dancing. Somehow he managed to get all of the ladies above 55 to group around him and wave their arms in the air.
The next day we took some time to walk around the University of Pennsylvania campus. We checked out Chris' first dorm building where he spent freshman year.
This is the house where he lived for a year with Ted and few others during college.
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is where Chris did a lot of his medical school rotations. It's amazing how close Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania, the Hospital and everything else is. We pretty much saw where Chris spent about 11 years, off and on, of his life.
It was an action packed weekend, and it was great to see a place so well known to Chris.
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