1 down, 2 to go

Well, I managed to make it to Michigan and back with only mild travel issues, which made for a nice change of pace.  My flight out on Friday night actually arrived half an hour early! (We’ll ignore, for the moment, that the entire plane’s bags were unloaded on the wrong carousel and it took approximately 45 minutes for a Northwest employee to find them)  There was only a short time when I feared for my life because of the crazy turbulence we found ourselves in and they temporarily suspended in flight service so the flight attendants could remain strapped into their seats.

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It was an action packed weekend as Saturday morning found my parents, me, and both of my brothers all in the same place together (namely, my parents’ house) and we all went for breakfast to mark the occasion.  Saturday afternoon brought with it a bridal shower for 2008 Wedding #3 (September), at which I laughed so much my face hurt afterward.  My table actually had to be shushed because we were disrupting the proceedings a couple of times.  :)  Saturday night came and I headed out to a wedding party (reception, basically – aka 2008 Wedding #1) for a friend and his wife who had gotten married a couple of months ago in Mexico.  That was a decidedly less rowdy affair, but still nice to be able to share in the celebration for a short time.

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Sunday was a fabulous shopping trip with my mom, who bought me not one, but TWO very pretty sundresses, which will be making their debuts at 2008 Wedding #2 and 2008 Wedding #3, respectively.  Typically, I hate clothes shopping for myself.  It’s rare that I find even one thing I like (unless I bought it online, which is like a license to spend too much money and like everything way too much).  However, on Sunday, if I’d had unlimited funds (which, sadly, is so not the case as I have yet to locate the ever elusive money tree) I probably could have walked out of the mall with at least 10 new outfits.  Alas.  The coolest thing about the shopping trip is that now I have a legitimate reason to go shoe shopping!  And spend the DSW gift card I received for my birthday!  Hooray! (though it presents a conundrum.  My new dress is white with different shades of blue.  Do I go with silver shoes?  White shoes?  Do I attempt the impossible and look for blue shoes that won't make me look like a clown?  So many choices, what is a girl to do?)  After the shopping trip my parents took me out for a late birthday dinner, which was splendid (seriously, I miss Olive Garden So. Much.)

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The trip back was a little interesting.  Metro airport apparently felt that on Sunday night there was no need to open more than one security checkpoint in the Northwest terminal (which is huge, for those of you unfamiliar).  The line was LONG.  It moved quickly, but still I got to my gate with about 10 minutes to spare before we were scheduled to start boarding.  Only suddenly my flight seemed to be leaving at 9:55 instead of 9:19.  This was due to the fact that there was a chain of thunderstorms stretching from Canada all the way down to Florida and we couldn’t fly through them.  After about 5 minutes, the flight time abruptly changed to 9:15, only we never boarded.  Apparently there was an issue with the tail of the plane, making it unusable, so we were all sent from Gate 6 to Gate 53, where there was a working aircraft.  Once we got on the plane, it was a very smooth ride, and with the delays I was home by about 1am.  Since then I’ve been tired and uninteresting, then last night I headed to the neighbor’s to catch up with them.  I love having neighbors :)