After the 3 days off, many are sharing stories from the weekend. Let’s see. Saturday was an inline skating day. Went to Hou Hai and skated around the lakes. Was going to go to the midi festival but just felt like skating in the fresh air, so I didn’t make it this year. That night walked around in the cool night air in Wangfujing.

Sunday, attended a friend’s wedding which was held in the French Lafayette Chateau about an hour out of Beijing. I joined about 200 people for the wedding of Yu Min and Julia. Yumin had told me that the cards from guests would be displayed on a board. I wrote one for them and here’s what it said:

May 2, 2010

Yu Min and Julia,

I have known Yu Min since the early days of IE, when I went to the Microsoft office to complain about their new browser that had caused me trouble. I thought my computer would be destroyed. They were very helpful and a tall guy called Gao Yu Min came to help me.

He listened as I told him what I had done, and that something went wrong when installing the Microsoft program. He calmly and patiently looked at me and said 2 words which were magic to my ears.

“Don’t worry!”

After that, he did something to fix it and we have been friends ever since.

When he introduced Julia to me, he told me that something seemed to be happening that was very special.

So, here we are. At the marriage of Julia and Yu Min and I want to wish you both the very best.

In the future, there will some problems and hopefully, mostly small ones. You will hear the reassuring words from Yu Min that I have heard many times over the years that will help you in any difficult times.

“Don’t worry”

Wishing you a lifetime of happiness!

Rick 李柯

It was a combined western and Chinese style wedding and as the tradition goes, held before noon.

And Chateau Lafayette was a classic place for it. Very cool!