So Friday night we went to the Waterfront Seafood Market and Restaurant with Josh and Lindsay.
Waterfront specializes in fish and fish things. There was a large and diverse selection, but Josh, Lindsay and I stuck with the Sushi and Shannon with with a variety plate, with a little shrip and a few mussels. I also had a bowl of clam chowder. The Chowder was pretty good and once I figured out how to mix the wasabi with soy sauce, it was a very enjoyable experience. The various kinds (spider and waterfront) that I had were quite tasty, but done in such a fashion where they were actually cooked. The presentation was better then I thought it would be. It was an enjoyable, experience.
The next day we went out to look for invitations and response cards and napkins and a cake. We went to Target, then the Bake Shop (in Windsor Heights), and the pastery samples (buttermilk brownies, carrot cake) were quite good, which left me in a good mood. We both had a full one of our own. I had a lemon bar and Shannon had a creme de menthe brownie. All creamy and minty on the outside and nummy on the inside. We went through some picture books of caokes and came down to what we wanted with a few modifications (like including the claddagh) and came upon a price. It'll alternate layers of chocolate and white cake and serve around 130 or 140. In talking with the baker, he's probably done 4000 wedding cakes over his life and he used to work for the largest wedding cake place in Des Moines (which is now closed). I left there thinking that we would get a lot more then what we wanted (even if it will cost more then what we got at Hy-vee).
We then went to Pure Paper, to try to find napkins, however they don't really do that, but we did get a few ideas as far as party favors and inivtations.
We headed to Hy-vee to get a few things and then went home, put them away, and went to Pink Fine Stationery, where we got information about napkins and she'll get us more. She asked about our invitation, but mentioning that we had a graphic designer (Adam) as a friend, kinda put the kilbosh on that real quick (which is nice cause we didn't really wanna say that we didn't wanna do it cause it was probably too expensive).
We went to Micheal's and looked for do it yourself cards, but only found one box of 50 of what we wanted, so we decided to go to the card maker's website and see if we could have any luck. Their website was pointless...no recommendatations on where to buy online or other nonsense, so by using the power of google, we were able to find something if not the same, very simliar to what we wanted online at target. Yay! So we bought plenty and called doing weddign stuff for the day.
We headed over to Josh's and met up with Josh and Lindsay, and Adam and Tif and we ordered pizza (fron Northern Lights) and watched some movies. First up was The Brothers Grimm, which I had wanted to wach in the theater, but I thought that Shannon might not like it. It was strange...very Strange, but Gilliam is like that. there were two things in the movie that tipped it over the edge of not liking for Shannon, both involving cruelty to animals... Even with that though, I think I liked it...maybe I'll have to see it again (but I don't think that Shannon could take it).
The second movie was one we had all seen before. Last Action Hero...Yes...really....it was actually a lot funnier then I remember.
Afterwards we headed home.
This morning I made breakfast, for myself, Shannon, Josh and Lindsay. French Toast, Pancakes, bacon and sausage, with toast too. It turned out ok...I wasn't happy with it. The bacon and the sausage were good, but the pancakes were inconsistantly done as well as the french toast. They still tasted good, but I just didn't think it was good enough.
Josh and Lindsay were still in their PJ's but it was nice to have guests over for breakfast...
After they left we got to work and cleaned up this place...it looks very nice now.