The Roo Ranch was fun, but getting your picture taken with a joey for $15 was a little out of my price range, so I opted not to do so (and I was wearing a white shirt). There were kangaroos, wallaroos, and wallabies at the Roo Ranch, all in pens. Our tour guide was probably hung over, 22 years old, and a football player for the university. Rockin'. I would have taken pictures of the roos, but they were just all in pens, inside or outside, and that's a little boring - pictures taken through chain link fence.
After the trip to the Roo Ranch, Aaron and I picked up a co-worker, Bryce, and headed for the wedding. We were a little late, but weddings never start on time. Right? Actually, this one did, and it's the first wedding I've ever been to that ever started on time. By the time we arrived, 5 minutes late, the "wedding march" was already playing. The wedding took less than an hour, the shaking hands of the wedding party was awkward 'cause I hardly knew the groom, let alone his new wife and family, but I survived.
We skipped out on the reception, figuring it would be lame (I guess her family is big into not drinking...), and headed back to Deadwood to drop off Bryce and lose some money before heading back home to Spearfish.
A quick change of clothes and we were at the bar, where I ran into someone who's blog I used to read (until he discontinued it, which made me sad, 'cause it was good to read). He knew who I was through my blog, and I knew who he was through his blog, although this was the first time we'd met face to face. He'd conversed with Aaron in previous times, and Aaron had even asked me, "Do you remember so and so? He had this blog..."
So he's working at the bar and comes up to the table, "Hey, it's Andrea! How are you doing?" I must have looked weirded out or something (even though I wasn't, 'cause I knew exactly who he was), but after that quick little greeting, he hardly stopped by the table or made eye contact. Maybe he thought I was freaked out by it? Who knows.
Anyway, I'm rambling now, and no one wants to read that. Aaron has tomorrow off, so when I get home from work, we can DO something! Hooray!
Oh, I crocheted a beautiful shawl over the last couple of days...but after trying it on, discovered it is entirely too large to wear without looking silly, but the shell pattern in the stitching turned out wonderfully.
Here is a close up of the shell pattern.
And the whole thing on the floor, pardon the skeins of yarn and crap all over the place...
And this is when I first started the project, one skein into it. Just trying to capture the shell pattern.
I'm going to make one in pink, but instead of starting with 20 shells at the bottom row, I think I'll start with 15, which seemed like a good size when I folded it over. Plus it won't take nearly as much yarn or as many hours to make.
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