So Friday night when Shannon got home from work, we headed down to Chef's Kitchen to do some wine tasting for the wedding. We had a wonderful meal of their chicken lasagna (which is great, if you've never had it, you must), and I tried oh...5 or 6 wines..or 7...2 whites and 4 reds. We selected the white (one which Shannon said was not bad, which is pretty good as far as she goes). And we'll go back another night to select the red.
We came home and watched a movie.
Saturday we we're going to join Dave and Pat in going to the Ren-Fair, but being that it was $13 a person and we were maybe going to get and hour or two, before it started raining, we decided to not go.
We went to pick up a few things at Target (laundry and etc). And then went over to Homemakers to look around and get a few ideas as to what we want to do for the house (or wherever we end up moving to). We came up with a few agreements, but a lot of conflicting ideas as to what we wanted to do (thinking about the family room downstairs). We mainly disagreed on the entertainment center (I want something more glass and shiny metal or black metal, she wants more wood). We did easily agree on the type of chairs that would go around the dining room table. And we even found a couch that is kinda neat.
After we got bored, we headed over to Audio Visual Logic (in Urbandale) and I showed Shannon what I would like to get to put in our entertainment center. Starting with a new receiver and going on with a set of B&W speakers and HDTV of some sort. This, of course, is over the long term. We are not going to go severely in debt for the sake of entertainment.
Afterwards, we headed home.
Sunday, we did some more wedding stuff. We worked up an idea of the menu for the rehearsal dinner, we'll setup a meeting with them in the coming week. We also headed out to get pictures of my grandparents (we had them, but they were far to big). So we headed over to Hy-Vee Drug to make a copy on their Kodak station...apparently it was broken. So we headed over to target, where theirs also seemed to be broken, but no, it just needed new ink and paper. Which they were changing. The girl in line in front of me was printing off a whole lot of digital images, which took a while, but eventually I was able to copy both pictures (though the one of my Dad's parents didn't fully fit on the scanner).
Shannon went off to find some tea light candleholders, she didn't find any that she liked.
We got them copied and they turned out pretty good, and considering that they were only about $2 per picture.
In our search for tea lights and holders for them, we headed over to Bed Bath and Beyond, and where Shannon found ones that she liked, she didn't like the color.
So we headed over to Jordan Creek Town Center to go to Yankee Candle. We finally found ones that she liked and some pink tea lights to go in them.
We then did some grocery shopping and headed home.
One more day off. Ahhh...This'll take me down to enough so that by the time I take off the big chunk of time for the wedding, I can still earn 3.79 more hours of PTO before the large chunks of wedding time come off. Which is good, since the time off for the wedding will put me under 400 hours in my bank.
Anyways...it rained this weekend. And after Jimmy and crew came back to reseal the skylight, it is looking like it's fixed. We had a nice rain last night, and the ceiling in the bathroom over the tub was bone dry.
Now they can come and fix the ceiling, so it doesn't look like crap up there.