Pictures of 04.03.04 -- Emily's wedding, Ben's birthday

It was set to be quite a weekend. We remember the last wedding in Baltimore that involved the same people and many previous celebrations of Ben's birthday including
2003
and 2001 birthday and 2001 party
and 2000 with the sad observation that in 2002 my camera was broken and there was a shortage of new digital cameras.
But, it was clearly time for a celebration or 2, so we got ready to roll. So we packed the trunk ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0001 Suzanne and Sarah did their ritual handshake ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0002 and after Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0003 got in the car, it was wheels up ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0004 only 54 minutes late. We hit traffic and so decided to take a short cut through Haddonfield where this person on the street ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0005 was celebrating Jane's history teacher ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0006 as we followed the traffic ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0007 past the gas station ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0008 and back onto the highway. When we approached the Delaware Memorial Bridge ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0009 I ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0010 was unhappy as was Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0011 because the line ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0012 was long and we had forgotten our new E-Z Pass ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0013 so we didn't feel a little better ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0014 as the toll taker ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0015 went incognito. We drove on until a pit stop at which we left Sarah in the car to prevent theft ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0016 as Jane acknowledged the culinary choices ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0017 and the dress code ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0018 before we paid homage ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0019 to Maryland's finest. Once inside, Jane ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0020 picked the food ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0021 and we paid ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0022 so that Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0023 would feel nourished as we drove on ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0024 to the line ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0025 at the next toll booth and finally got Baltimore ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0026 and the hotel in our sites ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0027 where this fine man (grandson of P"53) ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0028 gave us one of our rooms with a less than ideal view ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0029 of the parking lot. As the girls ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0030 got ready to go upstairs, Suzanne called ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0031 to see if our other room would ever be ready. The views from Dansyl's room of the harbor ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0032 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0033 and the tall ship ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0034 were excellent even as Benjamin got his monopoly game ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0035 and assembled it ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0036 as a way to fight boredom.
Next it was time to get dressed. I failed not once ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0037 but twice ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0038 to capture myself, so I tried the mirror trick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0039 before deciding that Benjamin could take a better picture of me ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0040 before turning to his toes ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0041 over which he was watching Georgia Tech take an early lead over OKState ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0042 in the game that mattered. Jane appeared and posed with Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0043 and then with Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0044 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0045 before Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0046 ducked out of the picture and headed for the window ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0047 where he posed ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0048 and then went further ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0049 and further ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0050 into the curtains until he was totally obscured ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0051 though he did emerge ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0052 and use his game ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0053 as a decoy as Sarah appeared ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0054 and showed her hair ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0055 before posing with Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0056 and taking my picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0057 as we gathered ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0058 for an almost whole family portrait ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0059 and then a few of the children with Ben looking bored ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0060 then dorky ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0061 then sleepy ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0062 then bashful ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0063 which made us wish that we could remember all seven of the dwarfs.
Downstairs, we ran into Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0064 and a reluctant Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0065 who eventually got with the plan ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0066 as Suzanne, Jane and Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0067 sat as DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0068 and Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0069 arrived. Sylvia ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0070 had one group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0071 then a larger group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0072 then an even larger group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0073 and then a substitution ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0074 gather for photos as Isabel and Peter ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0075 joined Larry and Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0076 joined Fran. Meanwhile, Sarah and Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0077 and Jane and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0078 were watching the conversation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0079 before we went into the ceremony and saw Michelle and Jason ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0080 and got their attention ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0081 before the ceremony began.
After the ceremony, Jane, Fran and Michelle ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0082 did the sister thing while Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0083 watched until Suzanne joined ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0084 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0085 for a pair of pictures as I went off to meet Lynn ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0086 and Yitz ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0087 and chat with Bob ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0088 while trying to get the perfect picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0089 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0090 of the most interesting guest, but more on that later.
It was family time with Betsy and Matt ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0091 DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0092 and Dick and Larry posing ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0093 before we grew the nuclear family, one ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0094 by one ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0095 as Jane and Eric ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0096 and then Barbara too ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0097 watched as Ben and Sarah ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0098 led us past Andy, our host, ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0099 to our table where the other brothers and wives ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0100 were waiting to see if we would join them for the perfect picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0101 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0102 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0103 for which, you gentle viewer, can be the judge. Adam and Bonnie ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0104 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0105 appeared and DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0106 made Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0107 stir as Rachel and Suzanne posed ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0108 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0109 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0110 for their collection of pictures to the amusement of Janet and Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0111 and Dick and Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0112 as I showed that my skill at self portraits ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0113 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0114 had slipped away so that Jane had to join me ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0115 and then pose alone ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0116 so that Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0117 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0118 would do the same even as the rest of the table ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0119 conversed and Rachel explained something ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0120 to Suzanne. It was time for more pictures at our table with Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0121 and a few tries ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0122 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0123 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0124 to get Larry's expression right and then Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0125 and Peter ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0126 as Sarah and Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0127 saw if the three children ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0128 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0129 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0130 could produce a good group picture. At this point, DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0131 happened by and chatted with Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0132 before posing for pictures with Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0133 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0134 then Janet and Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0135 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0136 and finally Larry and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0137 into which PhotoShop may be able to paint this finer face ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0138 with more hair. A dark salad ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0139 was served as the table engaged in conversation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0140 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0141 and Ben decided to see if Larry could amuse him ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0142 before the sorbet came ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0143 and Ben did variations on his sleeping on the table ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0144 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0145 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0146 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0147 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0148 which brought Barbara over ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0149 to try and massage his back ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0150 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0151 to energize him or at least Larry and Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0152 who led to the dance floor. Bob and Isabel ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0153 dined as Bonnie and Rachel ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0154 posed as did Ben, Suzanne and Jane ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0155 and Fran, Dick and Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0156 while Dick brought Eric to the table of the next generation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0157 so that they could talk man talk with Matt ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0158 while I went back to my delicious vegetarian dinner ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0159 and walked to the wedding cake ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0160 with Sarah who seems to need to show me her body parts feet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0161 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0162 then hands ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0163 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0164 as we gathered her and Ellen together ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0165 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0166 to see if they were twins when their glasses were off. Ellen and Brian ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0167 posed and then we went outside where I captured the others ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0168 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0169 but missed severely on an attempted profile shot ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0170 before getting closer ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0171 so that I felt comfortable about having these groups photos ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0172 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0173 which Eric ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0174 took before he took the pictures of my next generation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0175 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0176 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0177 and I got Dick's family assembled ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0178 for a collection of group photos ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0179 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0180 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0181 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0182 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0183 which made me feel like the day was done.