Day began on a plane to Mexico City. Despite my hatred for the Mexico City airport it’s really coming to feel like my second home. And, I will say, the lounges are good at least. So I had breakfast, worked and dozed there. Then caught my longer flight back to Lima. Went through the normal tribulation of finding an Uber at the Lima airport and fighting the traffic all the way back to my place in Miraflores. Being pretty beat after my 30 hours of travel I went right to sleep.

Worked in the morning and then began the long journey back to Lima. Annoyingly, I had to present my passport in person to get my boarding pass to MEX in LAX. The only problem was my flight arrived in LAX hours before the check in counter opened so I was left sitting on the floor by the only power outlet for hours. On top of which, as soon as we left Denver my phone exploded. Once I was actually able to get through security at LAX things improved, though. Caught my flight to MEX just before midnight.

Worked from the parents house during the morning and then had a series of work meetings to tend to in the afternoon. In the evening I met the family for dinner at yet another one of my favorite places; Sushi Den. Then it was home and to bed. I’m still exhausted.

Work meetings all day today but we did finish up a little early. This allowed me to get back down to Denver and to even schedule an impromptu gathering of some of my friends at my other favorite place; Teller’s. Then I went over to try and surprise my parents who of course were not home. I had even checked to make sure they would be back from Oregon so I was a little baffled. I finally broke down and asked them where the heck they were and it turned out they were in Wyoming but would be back the next day. So surprise ruined but at least I had a place to stay.

Snapped awake to the realization that it was time to be making my way to the airport. Showered, packed and took off. Made it to the airport in good time and got on the plane smoothly. I was exhausted so I dozed for the quick flight to Denver. Getting off an airplane and not having to go through passport control was a weird experience. Luckily I got to wait in line forever to pick up my rental car so that made up for a lot of it. I stopped at The Chart House, one of my Denver standbys on the way up to the mountains and had dinner with a friend of mine. Then continued the drive and crashed for the night.

The ceremony and the reception are both at The University Club so a much easier day today. Hung out there, got ready, did some photos and then time for the ceremony. The room that they had the ceremony and the reception in was gorgeous and had a cool view out toward the lake. I even managed to walk in and out without the benefit of the rehearsal. Standard wedding festivities from there, drinks, dinner, dancing. Then things took a turn again and I ended up at a series of bars until like 3 or 4am.

Ok, here we go. Departed around midnight to the airport which was crazy busy despite being around 1am. Caught a flight to Mexico City and slept the entire way. We landed around 6am and I had some very time sensitive work to tackle. Mexico City is the worst airport to connect through because you have to clear passport control, customs and security for your connections. So while standing in the two hour passport control line I managed to get my work done while balancing my laptop on one hand. Then back on the plane for a shot to Chicago. Hit the ground around 3pm and I had just enough time to get to The University Club, pull myself together and make the rehearsal. But wait! Traffic.

I gotta hand it to the folks at The University Club. I whipped in there like a tornado, handed my shoes off to be polished and my suit to be pressed. They had my checked in and swept off to my room and even had the package I needed to collect ready. I retrieved my tux that the grooms parents had been good enough to gather and made sure it fit. Which it didn’t. So now I’m running up the road to get the tailoring fixed. This means I miss the rehearsal. No big deal, I can walk in line. Oh but wait, I’m the guy leading the groomsmen out and now I have no idea where we are going. I’ll manage.

Head over to Trump Tower for dinner which was extremely well done and the view was great. Then it was off to the Hubbard Inn for more drinks. As tends to happen… this spiraled and we didn’t get out of there until 1 or 2am.