to winter park and back

I went to Brooks and Lisa's Wedding this weekend up near Winter Park. So beautiful...the whole thing! I drove John up there and back (2 hours each way) and we caravaned with Dolly & Adam. We had lots of time in the car to contemplate on the nature of the world. Here's some highlights of the topics we touched on:

• amerigo vespucci--who was he? a map maker? an explorer? *
• relationships. lessons from the past.
• why I'm really, really sad that Chad is moving away
• the joy of beef jerky...mmm, salty. (no, I didn't have any, but I sure did sniff it!)
• how beautiful the wedding was. How happy we are for Lisa and Brooks (the Witters!)
• incubus
• the part of the reception where I cried and cried
• the history of the philly cheese steak and how long has cheez whiz really been around? **
• how cool Adam is, and how much we love Dolly.
• melty, melty reeces peanut butter cups (and how to eat them without glopping chocolate all over yourself and/or the car
• my upcoming trip to Boston
• the kinds of nintendo games I played when I was a kid (remember the Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers game? oh, yes, I was a dork, too. But a dork with much younger siblings. My brother wanted me to beat that game. I think I did, too.)
• why would anyone name their hot sauce company "Captain Spongefoot"?! maybe becasue it is super, super funny. I crack up every time I say it.

*Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, was credited by a german mapmaker as the first one to "discover" the "new world" and thus the Americas were named.

**The philly cheese steak was created sometime in the 1930s. Cheez Whiz, a traditional topping on the cheese steak, was introduced around 1958. Looking into the history of Cheez Whiz lead me to some inadvertent information about Velveeta. This 'cheese food' has been marketed since 1923. There are some funfacts about Velveeta on these site:
http://www.monroecheesefestival.com/history.shtml
http://www.kraftfoods.com/Velveeta/Timeline