Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38762283-20190510171226/@comment-38762283-20190519021906

Yes, my daughter very much wanted to just elope! And she is actually usually very on top of things, but up until a week ago, was still finishing classes and wrapping up research she was involved with, etc. So, it was inevitable that a lot just had to get pulled together at the last minute. And we did, and it was just beautiful.

There WERE several bumps along the way though (restaurant #2 messed up our reservation after the first closed 2 weeks ago!), not the least of which was my niece breaking her ankle this morning when we went to set up and decoration! We'd been making so many jokes because her sister has broken her ankles FOUR times (2 in the same day once) and I broke mine so badly I'm disabled now. We laughed and laughed about how they'd mapped out a route to the hospital. HAHAHAHAHA.... And then she went down in some mud. "I JUST BROKE MY ANKLE!" Thought she was joking at first, but then I realized she was in the mud and was unlikely to take a prank that far. She said she was positive it was broken, and that she broke two bones. She was right! I have a hilarious picture of her sister holding up her hands, "Wasn't me this time!!!"

The hospital wanted to admit her and do surgery right away but she was determined to make the wedding and wanted to get back to her home state. So, they splinted her and the ceremony was only delayed 15 minutes!

It was crazy. I'm exhausted, and have a full week ahead of lasts with my 'baby' as he gets set to graduate on Friday.