OH CANADA!

We had a wonderful weekend in Canada. This is the line - on one side, our marriage is now fully recognized.

Here's where it started - Stratford's city hall.

The judge was great - she explained everything. Oh - and everything said applicant, co-applicant, spouse. It is the official Canadian marriage license ... and nowhere does it mention gender. Here we are taking the oath. Actually, in this photo, the judge is defining several words for us.

The license....

The night before ... we went out to dinner to a restaurant (the Sun Room) with a gluten free menu. The owner saw the city hall envelope and asked us, "When's the big day?" At the end of the night she surprised us with all of their gluten free desserts, candles, and singing.

We were married on a little island on the River Avon ...

and back at the B&B had a champagne toast ....

and gluten free cake!

We had dinner at the Church Restaurant - we had the post-modern tasting menu with wine pairings. The meal started out with dragon oolong tea shooters. the chef bringing out a thing of liquid nitrogen and a frothy oolong tea mixture. He dropped balls of the froth into the liquid nitrogen, froze them, drained them and handed them to us. We put them in our mouth, bit down, and then exhaled the nitrogen out of our noses (look closely below). The meal got more bizarre from there (virtual lentils, cobb salad revisited, etc.).

NOT three cat ladies

We obtained a new blog reader today, and she was sad for us and our three-cat situation. Which confused me, until I realized that we never posted our good news.

We successfully placed Henrietta with fellow German Village residents, and her name is now Sonia. She seems to be settling in well, not beating up her new big sister (while not not beating her up, either) and is quite contented with her new life.

Our cats have also ceased to be terrified since the five pound kitten relocated.

So, all is well with the Schmlloyds.

Greetings from the APTC! This is Dr. S. R. Curry writing. I have the singular honor of being permitted to weigh in on this most nuptial of blogs as Executive Director of the most influential non-profit advocacy group for consumable paper cleaning products in existence today, the American Paper Towel Council.

Dr. K.A.S. van der Schmlloyd, prior to her famed association with S.L. van der Schmlloyd, is the erstwhile APTC Celebrity Graduate Student. As many of the viewers of this blog know, she is a foundational member of the APTC and currently serves as its Statistician-in-Chief. She is famed for her "never use a clean rag for what a cleaner paper towel could do better" approach to paper towel consumption, an endearing quality that let me to re-discover the values that have sustained the APTC to this day.

Dr. S.L. van der Schmlloyd is similarly situated at the apex of the leadership chain for the APTC, serving unflaggingly as its Mistress of the Perforations since the organization recruited her in 2007.

The entire executive committee of the APTC rejoices in the connubial bliss that is soon to enrapture the Drs. van der Schmlloyd. I and the whole staff at APTC World Headquarters wish upon them the Blessings of Absorbency, Toughness, and Purity that make America's paper towels her greatest treasure and source of strength. As our founder, J.R.W. Bounty (1869-1941), remarked to Marcel Marcal at the first Pan Napkin Congress in 1909, "This perpetual union marks the beginning of a bold new universal era of freedom through absorbency! Huzzah!"

Scott Curry, M.D., F.A.P.T.C.

Band II

I found a great photo of the band (and stole it from someone's website).

Ms Fredi and Blue Faze

Shoes with a License to Kill

We ordered shoes for me (S). They are fab. I might die. I've tried the toe-heel-toe-heel approach. It's not helping. I look like a flake. So, you all might be highly entertained when I fall and break my up do.

Say Cheese! FLASH!

We have met a wonderful photographer. Unlike the antique car guy, she met us in her studio rather than an alley. So, I'm sure she is legit! As a matter of fact, she is fabulous.

Her website.

Her Pittsburgh Post Gazette Photo Journal.

Her Book.

We have a BAND!

Last Thursday we drove to Pittsburgh to catch Ms. Freddie and Blue Faze. They rocked and will be performing at our reception. Now, I am just wondering ... does Ms. Freddie bring the skull on a stick to weddings?

Check them out: http://www.myspace.com/bluefaze

Also - for clarification ... The Schmitt baby ultrasound (from an earlier entry) is Schmitt as in Mr and Mrs. Mary Schmitt. Not a Schmlloyd baby ... not yet ....

Newest Schmitt baby ultrasound:

Kitten Update

Good news .... the kitten (temporarily known as Henrietta) has a tongue.

Better news ... proof that all the critters like each other.