After the Wedding

I still had distant family in that area. But only one who was well known to me. Dads Aunt Marie. She was his fathers sister. She was living at the old farm by herself . A widow who's daughter was my age. So I'd spent time there when we were girls. It was Marie who tried to teach me to sew, and decided I was her only failure. She taught Home Economics. (My thread still ties itself in knots.) I took my new husband out to meet Marie and she was tickled pink to be the first family member to know about the marriage.

After that we really didn't have any plans or reservations. We had a few days before we had to be back to work and we planned to drift where the wind took us.

We ended up in a city across the Ohio border in Indiana. You don't need details and I'm not giving them. But, I do want to tell you about a Bar my new husband took me to the first evening. We weren't familiar with the area, but found a nice enough location with a club that looked nice on the outside. It had an Irish name. Still, I was nervous. I asked Bear to go in and look around first while I waited in the locked car. He didn't leave me alone long and came back saying it was clean and it was nice inside. So we went in.

It was clean and very nice inside......till the girls came out dancing across the bar. He took me into a high class strip club. And the only thing that bothered him about it was the bill when he paid for my wine cooler and his beer. He wouldn't leave till we had finished every drop. When I tell anyone to this day that he took me to a strip club after our wedding, he still complains about the price.