What a weekend! Very full and relaxing. We celebrated James’ birthday on Friday night with dinner and drinks out with friends and family. After celebrating at a local bar with other friends after dinner for a while, we were approached by a waiter who informed us that “a gentleman at the end of the bar would like to treat you to a round of drinks”. To our surprise, “the gentleman” was a guy from our church who happened to spot us across the room and sent over this generous offer. He ended up joining our party and we had a nice time talking with him. All in all, Friday was a great way to kick off the next week of preparations and partying!

Saturday was great. I had a lovely brunch with Melinda, Hannah and little Ila. Then Melinda and I set out to find some shoes for me to wear during the wedding. I’ve been doubting my original choice for weeks and we found a much better solution.

Last night I got to spend some quality time with Jeff, Carol and Anne. We watched a movie and ate leftover cake. Then, I stayed up until 1am doing wedding stuff and reading. I think I slept for about 10.5 hours last night. I really needed to decompress this weekend after being so stressed out the last week at work with everything I had to get done. But, its all done now!

James and Pete left at 5am on Saturday morning for the bachelor-party-canoe-trip. They just got back home a few hours ago, exhausted, happy and smelling like sunscreen and the outdoors. They both passed out for naps. I’m just catching up on email, doing laundry and making lists for this week.

I can’t wait to hear about their trip!

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