Wedding pictures

(With a few other family pictures thrown in)

We were married on 29 July 1996.
 

Maria was a very beautiful bride.
Mark had some free time to look around before the reception ...

  

Which was held at the Savoy Opera House in Tucson's east side.

We called all of our friends ...

 

Who seemed to have a good time.

 

 Tracy, Chrisie, Carlie, and Allie,
and Jim, Doug, Steve, and Jim
stood up with us.

Everyone seemed to like our cake. It looked good, and tasted better. The cake top was made by Marias's sisters.

The bride and groom with Maria's family. From left: Chrisie and Carlie, M & M, and Pedro and Mary. Her extended family from Colombia could not come.

The Lemmon family had a large turn out. From left: Tricia (cousin), Cori (sis), Ginger (aunt), Jerry (dad) holding TJ (niece), Tom (uncle), Sally (step-mother), M & M, Geraldine (grandmother), MaryAnne (aunt), Christi (sis), and Doug (bro). There were a few other Lemmons there, and many, many more who couldn't make it.

Mark's mom and step-father Joe were there, of course.

... and all of their kids are shown here.

Here's Mark with Maria and all his (full-, half-, and step-) brothers and sisters, various significant others, and one niece.
Mark with Doug and Cori. Some people say we look alike.

After the wedding, we went to the San Juan Islands in Washington State, off of the coast of Victoria, BC. The first part of the trip was quite a struggle, but once we got on the seaplane it became a good, relaxing trip.

We stayed at the Orcas Hotel on Orcas Island. It's quite a nice B&B right at the Orcas ferry dock. We rode around the islands, hiked up Mt. Constitution and through a couple beach parks, and generally had fun.

Here we are on Orcas.

We saw orcas (killer whales) all over the place. We saw one looking for lunch (with no other people around) at American Camp, which is a park at the site of the American base during the Pig War. History interlude: Turn of the century, US and Britain both claimed the islands. A US farmer shot a british pig for ruining his garden. The brits tried to arrest the farmer, and the US Army stepped in to make sure British law was not enforced on US territory. The two sides set up camps (English camp is a park at the north end of San Juan Island) at opposite ends of the main island, and hung out. Evenetually, the Kaiser, as arbitrator, said that Raosario strait was the international boundry, and gave the islands to the US. The war was named after the only casualty.

To continue, we saw whales at the whale watch park (Lime Kiln) and we saw this one and many others on a cruise.

The whales swim off into the distance ...

While they were passing us, they were very impressive. Several came over to look at our boat and the other boats (we stayed well out of the way of the pod's main body). One juvenile even jumped out of the water for us. There were some people who (illegally) moved into the whales path. The whales responded agressively, trying to scare the people off, but in the end the whales were more courteous than the people and didn't dunk any of the boats.