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Elevators

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As everyone probably knows already, we spent a long weekend at Jay Peak Resort for Liza and John's wedding. I plan to write a long review of Jay Peak but, for now, I wanted to write about the elevators at the resort because the thought of every elevator on that property is still aggravating me today. Maybe if I write about it I can let go of some of this frustration. Let's start with the elevator in our hotel, The Tramside Hotel.  Lukey, in the elevator in the Tramside Hotel. When we stepped into this elevator for the first time to go up to our suite (which was beautiful, by the way... I'll write more about it later) , we noticed an issue which made us nervous. As the doors were closing, the elevator would drop a couple of inches. It would drop a couple of inches every single time the doors opened too! Naturally, this made us a bit nervous.  Additionally, the elevator was brutally sloowwww. We could walk the stairs up the four floors to our suite in the same amou

A Few Favorites from the Wedding Weekend

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The wedding weekend is now behind us but we're still trying to catch up on sleep!  I managed to sort through the photos I shot over the weekend. I didn't shoot all that many photos compared to how much I usually shoot. Actually, relatively speaking, I shot very few photos. There are a few reasons for this... I was exhausted, Sheila was exhausted and feeling quite miserable, my spinal injuries were screaming, there was a photographer present anyway, and I was there to enjoy Liza's wedding not shoot photos all weekend. At one point shortly after the wedding ceremony, I insisted that I was done shooting photos so I could spend all my time with Sheila at the wedding rather than being distracted by photography. Sheila is still recovering from her radiation treatment so that already had her worn out and hurting a bit. That certainly played into how she felt over the weekend. Her immune system is seriously compromised so she's been fighting off every cold and infection flo