Wedding Errand Weekend

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Last night we just kinda chilled out. It was such a yucky day, and everybody had left the office, that I ended up leaving at 5:00 and went to the nail salon for a mani/pedi. I then went home to kill some time before I had to meet Al for dinner. We had Mexican at our usual place and celebrated the end of a rough week with margaritas. Yay!

Saturday was a hugely busy day! I started the morning early by traveling up to a fellow Knottie's house to purchase/pick up the parasols for my ladies. We chatted for a bit and then I headed to the Shrine to meet up with Al and see Father Henry for the first time. This was our first meeting to start the paperwork and get the ball rolling. We were also able to learn that we will be able to do a full mass and have communion. Al is super excited that we get to do this (me too of course), but that will mean a full hour for the ceremony. Sorry to all our guests, but I promise that it will be lovely!

After we left the church, I headed straight to my mom's house to go take care of her and help her out for a little bit. She's doing amazing and continues to improve. She was getting in and out of the chair and walked over into the other room to check her e-mail.

I stayed with my mom until 6pm-ish, then went to go meet Galina for dinner and head over to Netherworld haunted house. Every year, I go to this particular haunted house to celebrate Halloween which is one of my favorite holidays! Galina is my "haunted house friend" because Al is not fond of haunted houses and won't go with me. So we had dinner, then drove up to Netherworld. As we were trying to get off the exit, we looked across the access road and the entire parking lot was filled with a line of people, so there were no parking spaces available. Galina and I decided to take a rain check and try again another night. We went and got ice cream instead and hung out.

This morning we got up super early so that we could be on the road by 7am. We went to Chattanooga to play in a trash tournament. Trash tournaments are the pop culture equivalent to academic quiz bowl, but instead of being academic based questions, they are questions relating to pop culture. We got up super early, got breakfast on the road, made it to Chattanooga by 9am to start the tournament and made it through the first round robin part of the day. We broke for lunch then came back and ended up fighting it out with the last team to take home second place. Fun times.....I'm exhausted and still can't believe the weekend is over. No break for me.