Weekend Adventures

To say this weekend was busy is an understatement – and to know the full details would take the rest of the week. I’ll try to limit it today, and go into further details where I want in the future.

Originally, it didn’t seem so bad. I had a hair appointment on Saturday, while Cameron had skydiving plans. Sunday we would meet up with Grandma Betty to go to our reception venue, Peach Tree Golf & Country Club, for a tasting to determine the main dishes for our reception. Not bad, right? Pretty low key by our standards. Enter in the Elk Grove news and some last minute additions to the schedule and you understand why I had issues remembering all the little changes that were made elsewhere along the way.

Work on Friday was low key. Knowing I needed to drive to Sac to switch cars with Cameron, I e-mailed our friend Lynde to see if she wanted to have a glass of champagne to celebrate the good news and the weekend’s arrival when I got there. I figured she was planning a Champagne Friday any how – we send pics of our drinks via text message on Fridays often, cheersing the end of the week to each other. Instead I picked Lynde up and went out on the town in Chico, since her other half and mine would be consumed by computer games for the evening, and what we assumed would be the early morning hours of Saturday. Somewhere along the drive up we forgot the plans we made with boys for Saturday and made new ones for ourselves.

Saturday started out as originally planned. I headed to the hair salon for a trim and highlight while Lynde slept in. Afterward, I picked her up and we headed for Starbucks, then The Powder Room Beauty Bar, where I had a Wedding Day make-up consultation with Ashley. She did a fantastic job – so much so, I have to have her do my make-up the day of the wedding. It was after this appointment, which had been scheduled somewhat last minute before the weekend, when we strayed from the original plan. Here, we were supposed to run 2 quick errands and then drive back to Davis to drop Lynde off at the drop zone and pick Cameron up so we could try and squeeze some open house viewings. We were due in Davis around 2.

For some reason Lynde and I thought we were just supposed to drop by and say hello. With this in mind, we decided we had time to have lunch at Jasco’s, a favorite eatery of ours from our Chico State days. Then we did the last two errands before we started back from Sac. I think we started back to Sac at 1:30. We determined going to Davis to say hello was just silly – besides we could better spend the time planning bridal shower games for her sister Elaine’s bridal shower coming up this weekend.

During the drive, Cameron set us straight. Not that it mattered too much – skydiving was taking much longer than anticipated that day and there would be no house hunting for us that day. But I still had to go there and pick Cameron up. Then we had to drive to Matt & Lynde’s to switch cars again, and drop Lynde off so she could get ready for a party she forgot she was attending that night! From there, Cameron and I headed back up to Chico for an evening with my parents and so Cameron could get some school work completed.

Both of us were exhausted so we slept in Sunday before going in for the tasting. While everything was delicious and the decision tough, we were able decide on two main dishes, two side dishes, red and white wine, and beer for the reception. We want to try the champagne before we confirm that order.

But the tasting lasted longer than expected as well. Due to the changes to Saturday’s plans we had made new ones for Sunday. We were supposed to go pick up Matt & Lynde after the tasting, get Cameron fitted for a tux for our friends’ Jonny & Anna’s wedding in May, go see the house Matt & Lynde are building and get in a few open houses in Elk Grove.

We picked up Matt & Lynde and made it to Elk Gove, but only minutes before open houses ended – we never made it to their house or the Tuxedo store. We were, however, successful in determining what area of Elk Grove we want to look at buying a home in.

The day ended with Cameron and I driving Matt & Lynde back to their place, getting in separate cars, him driving home and me back to Chico. I worked from my parents home Monday while squeezing in a dental cleaning.

We’re already looking forward to this weekend, as we have decided on a realtor and will be house hunting with her on Saturday. Then we might actually get a day to spend at home. We'll try to remember the camera so we can show you pictures of houses we like or a house we plan to make an offer on!

Love always,
Sarah