What a fun weekend! It was absolutely wonderful to see Julie (so sorry Scott was in the Ozarks) and so fun to have Kate staying at the BlingMansion all weekend, too! Nearly felt like old times, with the "spare room" being used. Although, sorry to say, poor Julie felt very itchy in there and I am so very sorry about that....I thought that I'd gotten most of the dust out of the house since the horrible mess created by tearing out the tile, but I guess it lurks in the dangest places.......
The trip to the Taste was quite fun - again, apologies necessary since I guess I was very loud and obnoxious on the train ride home. It was fun sitting in the grass listening to the Counting Crows concert, although a bit shocking to look over and see a group of people passing a joint around - heavens! They smoked it down so low that I could only see ash on the thing! And one of the couples in the group was OLD!!!! Prolly even older than MOI! Maybe some of the smoke entered my lungs inadvertently and made me extra silly and loud?
I must say that there really weren't too many tempting things that really made me want to slap down eight tickets at the Taste, but the grapes from Dominick's were delish, although Austin's red ones were yummier than my green ones.....good thing he shares nicely! LOL
BlingDaddy went to the Taste for lunch today and said that his favorite places were still there - picked up his favorite chocolate covered strawberries, but he thought that Malnotti's pizza was not up to par this year - too greasy.
Grandma L's 78th birthday party yesterday was fun - nice to Uncle Ken and Aunt Corinne. Sadly, neither Jenny nor Mike were there. Talked with Grandma this morning and she mentioned being disappointed that Mike didn't make it. She did tell me, though, that she wore her new pearls to church this morning and received a compliment on them, so that's good!
Julie texted me earlier that she arrived home in Boston safely. :) Thank You, God. This is quite the travelling summer: Kate will soon be on the road to Kristen Tatnall's wedding in Colorado, Aimee, Matt and Paytie are trekking to Indy for the Fourth, Kelly will be on her bus runs to visit Matt in Champaign, and Julie and Scott will be back next month for their friend's wedding and first anniversary dinner at Charlie Trotter's! Makes me want to hop on a plane for somewhere myself! :)
Kelly reports that Matt had a fun trip to Colorado this weekend for the family wedding, although, of course, she would have liked to have been there herself. Seems as though his first flight went very well. Hopefully his flight home this afternoon is equally uneventful. Then next weekend he's traveling to Boston to see his MIT friend. Kelly is just going to have to be patient and wait two more weeks to him. sigh.
I'm here to report that Kate looked quite lovely in Julie's wedding dress when she tried it on Friday night. :) Amazing how two people with very different figures can wear the same dress and both look good! Isn't it just so wonderful that Julie is saving Kate a VERY tidy sum? Too bad you all couldn't wear the very same dress! Another family tradition!
Well, some guys just came to repair some drywall in the master bath. Too bad that the conduit hasn't been moved already....one more botch-up in our continuing Bathroom Saga......
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