“The Halloween Goblins were Mischievous…”
…This is the last time I plan to travel…🛫🛬✈✈🤔
……………………………. Part One…………………………………………
I thought I was on my way when…my overstuffed suitcase, (without a warning) …ejected its belongings with explosive force… It’s burst zipper flew off its teeth…never to bite together…at 12 o’clock midnight. 🙄😯😒
I was leaving next morning for my grandson’s Wedding, in Miami from New York’s, La Guardia Airport.
No time to get a replacement so… I out I got the sticky postal tape, I use for returns to Amazon… thinking perhaps this might hold it together.
Then my daughter, Michele spotted it & fumed, “Mom, NO way the airline will accept it that way”!
What to do what to do? 😮😲😰😱 All of that night I was sleepless with worry…that I’d miss the plane. 🥴
Early next morning, luckily, my neighbor lends me a tiny-weeny suitcase.
I hate to pack but I had to re-pack my crap into this dwarflike piece of luggage. 😓
As we rushed out of my apartment door, with the borrowed suitcase, my Samson cellphone dropped dead, dead, dead! 🙃 I had charged it thoroughly…but…it committed suicide.
The flight was uneventful. But at the luggage carousel at Miami’s huge airport… I was horrified to see that my walker was missing. 😮OH!
The red walker I needed to balance on my shaky gait…. mysteriously disappeared from American Airlines. It also had my toiletries locked in its attached storage bag since I couldn’t fit them into the mini space, in the borrowed luggage. After a frustrated hour at the Lost & Found, where I had to file a report, we arrived at the hotel.
“The Trick or Treat Goblins” acted up with mischievous glee… they somehow knew I was going to Halloween festivities.
Our room was freezing, for me, but too damn hot for my menopausal daughter. 😣🥵 I was forced to spring for an additional room & part… or we would kill one another…surely!
The bed was too high for me. I had to hold onto the desk chair, to climb into it. I need to use the toilet a few times nightly, it meant schlepping the chair, next to the bed, then re-placing it back, or I might fall over it. 🙄 OH! What a night! 😪
…………………Part Two…………………………………………..
“ The Goth/Greek/Jewish/Halloween Wedding”
The Wedding was held in an old castle-like 1920’s stucco mansion, set in beautiful, old Estate Garden. Its snarled old root trees were plush with round shiny leaves & twisted thick vines. Lovely rows of well-attended flowerbeds bordered the entire grounds. A natural arched canopy of bare branches formed a Chuppah for the couple to be married under, as per Jewish tradition. It was decorated with virginal white flowers.
The bride, Elizabeth, was “Snow White” in her pristine great flowing white gown…with her waist length black hair & porcelain cream skin.
The had groom had shoulder length dark curly hair and bushy black eyebrows. He wore a cut-velvet black tuxedo with his great grandfather’s pocket watch strung… debonairly across the satin vested tuxedo. A perfectly matched couple.
The in the garden ceremony was officiated by a Reformed Rabbi. It was on a balmy gorgeous Miami evening…
Laughter rang out, as I marched down the aisle, following the little guy ringbearer. (I was “the oldest Flower Girl” they ever seen at 83). I gleefully tossed red Rose petals this way, that way, then up into the night air.
As they stood under the Chuppah, the Canopy, their heads were covered in Greek tradition, with floral wreaths called Stefana. They were connected with a ribbon tying the couple together, symbolically…King & his Queen.
(Tears watered our eyes, as our late loved ones… were invited to share in the joy). We felt my late husband, Arthur’s presence as our Grandson, Harrison, wore the watch that had covered his wrist most of his adult life).
After the beautiful religious, traditional yet dual- blended ceremony, the guests were led into another area, that was set -up for cocktails with appetizers. There we were entertained by “a Goth/Rock” singer-dancer who waved a grey web of scarf & preformed “sort of modern ballet”? while her band played tinny Rock in mesh head dressings. 🙄😱
The Halloween costumed young guests mingled with the families & the old folks.
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Suddenly the Bride & Groom re-appeared “as Goth couple” from Transylvania… “Snow-white” had changed into a black lace & net gown with black chunky boots…” Morticia like”. The groom matched her in his black scrolled formal, old-fashion velvet tuxedo.
Their guests were in costumes for this Halloween/Goth/Greek/ Jewish original wedding that no guest will ever forget.
The Adams Family 🎶…🦹♀️🦹♂️🧙♂️🧚♂️🧛♀️🧜♀️🎼 🎵🎶 LOL!
“Holy des a Vieu” …
My statuesque granddaughter, Nicki changed into “My Mother -of -the- Bride” red matte jersey gown. I had worn it to her parent’s New York, wedding in 1981. What a surprise, I hadn’t taken out of my closet all these years…since, then.
Nicki had it altered in Pittsburg, where she now resides, into a “foxy midi dress” ala 1930’s TCM glamourous movie- Star Costume. Since my granddaughter has had her own unique style… Nicki wore it with high Plexi-glass floral heels. Her flowing curly tresses were dyed with multicolor highlights.
The crowd was dancing, in their metal Knight Armour, Juliette Empire Gowns, Ogres, Fairies, Bats, Dwarfs and Dracula' getups. (After a drink or 2, I felt like I was in a surreal movie)!
A Halloween Costume Goth Greek Jewish Wedding…Lordy!
(Nobody had ever imagined creating such a wedding except… this couple).
After a delicious buffet dinner with wine, a giant circle of all… joined hands in a circle for “The Horah, then the Greek Folk Dance Syrtaki, (which were almost the same steps). Round & round we went until we were out of breath. 🎵🎵🎵
We shouted “MAZEL TOV”, Mazel Tov”, L’Chaim, L’ Chayim! “OPA”, “Opa” …we clapped with warm, joyous wishes to our Jewish/ Greek Goth “Brand New Mr. & Mrs.” 💘💘
Following the traditional ancient country folk music…the music kicked-up without a pause, to modern disco for letting it all hang out sexy dance rhythms.
The staid old mansion bounced from our stomping & sing -along when a nostalgia tune hit the air like “Sweet Carolina”, “Micheal Jackson’s Thriller” “Oh What a Night”, “At the Copa”, many disco hits that threw us into a frenzy. We sang aloud as we were in ecstasy…
FINALE…The crowd witnessed the wedded pair cut the high wedding cake decorated with climbing ivy on its icy white canvas. True to the Goth way…they had used a Medieval sword.
Did I dream the whole fairytale…😍🎈🎈🎈🩸🍀🍀🍀🎵🎵🎵
