Camping #2 - but not really...

Argh! Blog falling by the wayside!

Anyway, this past weekend was to have been camping attempt #2 but we decided to bail on that before we even got up to Door County. We had been monitoring the weather all week and as the humidity and chance of storms kept creeping up we opted to stay high and dry at home.

Kind of.

Since we both had off on Friday we decided to go to the drive-in movie on Thursday night. We only stayed for the first movie (Ratatouille) but still had a good time. On Friday we decided to take a day trip to the Mall of America. It has remained our favorite Marshall’s location and the fact that there’s no sales tax on clothing in MN just sweetens the deal. We stopped by Adam’s grandma’s house on the way and visited for a little while. Four hours later we found a parking spot in the huge garage and went to look for food. We just wanted something light to tide us over until we stopped for dinner at an Applebee’s (we had a gift card.) We went to Taco Bell and got those new taquito things. Very Unimpressive. Anyway, then we did some shopping – Marshall’s (clothing), Gourmet Chef (new measuring cups – with a bonus egg separater!), Lego Land (Legos - duh), Big Dog (more clothing.)

And then we went across the street to IKEA.

Good lord.

And I thought Bed, Bath, and Beyond was a dangerous store for me to go to!

We followed the blue arrows, looked at all kinds of interesting furniture, decorations, and kitchen stuff. Mmmmmm, kitchen stuff. We managed to get out of the building with only 2 things – some new dishes and a strainer scoopy thing for the deep fryer. Perhaps it’s a good thing that there’s no IKEA remotely close to Neenah…

We got gas (it was cheaper in MN) and then headed back home. We planned to stop at an Applebee’s along the route home when we got hungry but we discovered that there weren’t too many of them. We ended up driving ¾ of the way home before we found one. The wait wasn’t too bad and we ended up paying less than $10 for the meal. Yay for gift cards! The remaining drive home was uneventful.

Saturday we did some power-errand running. Bank, Lowe’s, Alltel, Walmart, Blockbuster, Copps. Then we managed to finally take down the tent that had been up in the basement since last weekend. And put the futon together. We also watched another couple movies – In Good Company and Gray Matters.

Sunday we got up and went to church together for the first time in like six months. Then we went out for breakfast. Back at home Adam continued putting his ginormous (it’s a word now, look it up!) Lego car together as I cleaned cages, did laundry, did dishes, wrote thank-you cards. We headed to my dad & Cheryl’s for their anniversary party, stayed for a few hours, I was mistaken for Catherine just twice this time (and not mistaken for Brooke at all!), and was continuously asked when we got in and when we were leaving (People… we live an hour away, it’s not like we need to stay overnight! Grrr!)

Anywho, we came back home and continued in much the same matter as the rest of the afternoon. I watched another movie – Pizza – and then eventually went to bed.

This week has some potential excitement: Tomorrow is the final board meeting (hopefully) for IMA. Thursday is my second dress fitting. Friday is Adam’s appointment with the doctor about his hands. We’ll see what happens.

And according to the Official Wedding Countdown: 32 days to go.