Hello folks, it's John and Joe again. We haven't been with you for a couple of weeks'cause we've been busy, uh, eating out and, uh, making, uh, soup with the garden vegetables. Yes, we attempted, uh, squash blossoms, uh, several times and uh, today we decided it wouldn't make soup. Uh, which took a couple hours, but it turned out pretty darn good, I think. Very good. So, you know what, our anniversary's coming up, uh, how many years? June? June 16th. How many years is it? Uh, 30. 36. Correct. Thank you. Uh, so by the time you listen to this, you won't. He's sending any gifts to us, but that's okay. We don't accept no gifts required. No gifts, no gifts required. Uh, but we thought we would talk to you a little bit about, uh, our wedding and, uh, kind of how exciting it was and maybe different from a lot of you. So Joe, you want to talk a little about a review, uh, for those who forgot our past podcast and those who are new to our podcast. Well, uh, what do you want me to say? Oh, well review our, our, uh, what brought us to where we are today. Oh, we, uh, we both lost our spouses. Yes. And, uh, John Sean's wife died in December and my husband died in July and we both worked for Siemens. Uh, I worked for the corporate office in Boca, return Florida, and John was a field man for the entire company, but he lived in Chicago. And, uh, when I lost my husband, uh, John sent me a sympathy card with a little message in it and I wrote back to him and told him how meaningful it was and we became pen pals, right? And that led to phone calls and eventually, uh. Yeah, we said, why aren't we getting married? Which was, I thought was a good idea. Well, it was very expensive with the phone calls. We did not have cell phones, we had landline phones and every month my phone bill was a hundred or$500 and mine was$500. So, so we had to get married. Had to get married, right. So all this leads to, uh, June and we said, well, we'll get married. June 8th, I think, or ninth, and then said, wait a minute, if Joe leaves the company, she doesn't have any insurance and we won't be married, and she won't be under mine. So I had the idea, Joe, why don't you take a week's vacation and then resign, which I did, which you did. So the week before we got married, I went down to Boca Raton, Florida from Chicago, drove down and the idea was I would, uh, pick Joe up, take her to Chicago, then we would go to Georgetown, Pennsylvania to get married. Well, he was, uh, with me the day, the last day of my employment at Siemens. And then we closed up my house in Boca. And from there we went to Vera Beach because I had a second house in Vera Beach and we closed that one up. Um, and then we started on our way, we came to Georgia, came through Georgia, and I said I wanted to meet John's sister and her family and, uh. You hadn't. And we did. You hadn't seen her for a while. Hadn't seen my sister for many years. And uh, I told Joe, I said, well, we'll stop there and then we will just keep on trucking. But one thing you forgot to say on that to leaving your company, I did buy a dozen donuts for the office to commemorate us leaving and getting married. I never got any. No, you didn't. Well, you never got any of this stuff I sent to the office. No, I did not. So other people consumed it. We did meet my sister and her family, and a lot of those, uh, kids are married and have kids, and here we are, 36 years, goes really fast and we are still close to the family. Still close, right? So then we left our family and we went to Chicago and picked up Bob and Kay, Bob and Kay John's children, my kids, and off we drove to, uh. Pennsylvania, Doylestown, right? Doylestown, Pennsylvania. And we wanted to get married there because my family, uh, all lived in Pennsylvania and my mother was still living then. So it was pretty meaningful. However, I have to say that, uh, the, on Mother's Day of that year, this is a mother's day, just before the wedding, uh, I flew up from Florida to Pennsylvania to. It was town, Pennsylvania and John flew from Chicago to Pennsylvania. Mm-hmm. And we got our marriage license, met with the minister, got counseled by the minister on, uh, how to act in a marriage, and we picked out our music. Uh, I told him what kind of a sermon we service. We wanted, got a cake and we had flowers. We picked out the cake and the flowers and. My family had a shower for us. Yep. All this in, uh, one weekend. So all of you youngsters who are planning weddings, you know, it doesn't take much just a couple of days and, and you got it. So, and then we took mother after mother's, took Joe's mother and we took her to the restaurant called Bentley's, which is no longer there. And Bentley's was where we picked to have our, uh, wedding reception when we got married. Seven o'clock at night. Uh, yes, we did. Seven o'clock. Yeah. And, uh, the reception was in the clock room, clock room at Bentley's. And, uh, Joe's son-in-law was in charge of, uh, bringing her to the Nup Shores. Am I correct? Correct, correct. And I was AWAI for the bride's arrival or soon to be bride, and, uh, thought maybe she'd chickened out. But finally she did show up and, uh, we had a nice, uh, wedding with our children participating. We had a, uh, communion service and uh, and that was very meaningful, very nice, very nice. And I have to tell you, the minister's shoe, his one shoe was untied. So I'm looking down and I'm trying to concentrate on what we're supposed to be doing. And I, that shoe really bothered me. His untied shoe. It was un because Joe likes things in order, and an Untied shoe is a catastrophe. But let me tell you, at Bentley's, you know, when we had our reception dinner, uh, you probably said, well, John and Joe, what did you have to eat? And, um, I'm gonna tell you that, uh, we had a full course meal. We had appetizers, we had beverages, we had desserts, and we had entrees. And it was. First class, and this menu is actually framed right and hanging in our morning room, right? We have the menu and, uh, uh, after we got married and had a reception, our kids, our my kids, Bob and Kay flew back to Chicago and Joe and I, what did we do? Well, uh, my daughter Deb gave us a, uh, a stay at a bed and breakfast. Uh, in Montgomeryville. Montgomeryville. Yep. And, uh, Joe said, we can get breakfast at, I like breakfast. Those of you who know me well, Joe doesn't really care about it, but I said I could have breakfast. So she said, oh, we can go over to friend's. Friend's has breakfast all day long. Friendly's is a restaurant. Restaurant, so we go bopping over to Friendly's and guess what? No breakfast. We, so, yep. So. I had to suffer through no breakfast on our first day of marriage. And, uh, then we drove to, uh, Chicago. Oh, we stopped together. Oh, well we stopped one night, didn't we? In Ohio. Ohio? Yeah. I think it was Cleveland if I'm, it was in that area. And then we, uh, drove on to, uh, to, uh, Chicago. Chicago. And Joe does what he likes to do. Laundry. Okay. And then we changed suitcases. Mm-hmm. Uh, and we got flew to San Francisco. San Francisco for a honeymoon. Yes. We stayed there a week, I believe, didn't we? Yes, we did. And, uh, we, uh, took a trip down, uh, the coast. Uh, 17:00 AM 17. 17 mile drive. Wasn't it called? Oh, that's right. And, uh, we got arrested, uh, for holding hands and, uh, had to pay$5 to bail to get outta jail. Uh, then we went up to the, uh, Muir Woods. We, well, north of San Francisco. We took a, a ferry over to Sausalito Island. Oh, we did go to Sausalito. Yep. And toured Sausalito. Saw Alcatraz, uh, as we went down the ferry boat. And then we went to some wineries. In, uh, in and up in Northern California. Joe doesn't remember too much about the wineries because we went into these wineries for testing. They wanted to give you a, you know, taste test of a tour. I remember the first drink that we had. Yes, we do. And then, uh, people came in and bartender or keepers said we were newly married. If everybody wants to give us a toast. And we, we never took a tour, did we? No. You didn't. No, we went outside and Joe didn't remember, but we did have pictures and I showed her pictures of, of her, uh, outside the winery, so she did know she was there, so, oh, well. I remember also we went to a artichoke place. Yes, we did. Remember that? We had fried artichokes. They had artichokes on a stick. They had Miss Artichoke. I had never seen anything like that. So many artichokes that was just, uh, south of San Francisco. I believe so. I think you're right. So that was our, um, our, our honeymoon, our marriage, our mother's day. Oh, I, I wanna tell you, um, because John had so many miles, airline miles, we got the fly first class both ways. And while we were in. Uh, uh, San Francisco. We went to a, a pump, what was it called? Uh, oh, on, um, uh, now I forget the name of it. Well, at any rate, it was so crowded that you stood holding your, uh, drinks in the air. In the air. But you know what? Somebody yelled across at us, they were neighbors from where we lived in San Francisco. Oh. And then we were riding the, uh. What do you call'em? Street cars, you know? Mm-hmm. And uh, people said to us, you're old, why are you paying fofa? And I said, I didn't know there was something different. And he said, oh, you could ride for 50 cents. I thought it was 25, 20 5 cents. Well, I don't think so. Well, maybe it was 50 cents for both of us. Yes. And the continuation of our honeymoon, we rode everything. Discount fares, except, uh, John would not let me ride. Up to the top of Court tower. Court Tower, right. I had to walk, walk up to court tower. That was strenuous. Strenuous. And you know, when we got to the top ready to leave, I said, why don't we ride the bus? And we ride the bus, bus down, bus down. But we uh, we had a good time. We were at the Pier So's room in that picture, we ate at a lot of restaurants on the Fisherman's Wharf and the Ghirardelli factory and Chocolate Factory and. And, uh, very memorable. Very memorable. We still remember, yes, we do. And as Joe said, we still have our menu from our, uh, wedding reception hanging on the wall. If anybody visits us, you want to ask to see that, uh, document. Now, we also bought a picture of that pub. Yes. And we, when we got off the plane, we forgot to take it with us. It was rolled up in the overhead and we, uh, went back to United, I think it was, and said, Hey, we left it. Nobody could find it. So one of my work associates out in San Francisco got another copy and mailed it to us. And, uh, that Indeed is now hanging, uh, in our garage. Yes, unfortunately. We don't have enough wall space for all of our memorabilia pictures. So too many memories. Too many and more to come. Yes, indeed. Well, I guess that's it. We were gonna talk about dogs today, but now we've gone almost 15 minutes and you said these folks surely can't talk anymore. So our next episode, we're gonna talk about maybe the 20 dogs we've had between us, and then we'll probably talk sometime about. All the houses we've had between us. So there's more to come. More to come. So keep listening. Uh, this is John and Joe, and we'll say, uh, goodbye. Until next time. Goodbye. Till next time. Thanks for listening. Thank you.