A couple of weeks ago, the time had finally arrived to travel down to the Pere Marquette Lodge near Grafton, IL, for the nuptials of Jessica and Tom. There was just one slight problem: rain. And lots of it! You see, the lodge sits near the banks of where the Illinois and Mississippi rivers merge, and the river had risen precariously close to the Great River Road–just a couple feet from the pavement in some areas, in fact.…
