The weekend, and then some

So Thursday night marked the first company softball game. Man, was I excited! I hadn't played softball in at least five years, and that was a one-game, half-assed attempt at a game in college. I didn't go to the pre-game celebrations, as I didn't want to spend three hours at the bar before going to the game. So I drove in on my own, following directions from Google Maps. Apparently that was mistake number one, because there is a LOT of construction going on in that area, and it was utterly confusing. I think I missed the turns I needed to take at least three times, if not more. I didn't have the phone number for anyone on the team, so my first attempt at help was to call Aaron, as he can always get me turned in the right direction. He didn't answer his phone because he was on the other line, and then never called me back. So then I text messaged a co-worker and got the phone number of someone on the team - well, he left his phone in the car, never got ahold of him. I stopped, used Google Maps on my phone, and ended up finding my way, 5 minutes late. Which turned out okay, as our team was just getting in the dugout.

I was catcher. I could barely move my legs after that day. Saturday was the worst. Every time Aaron and I got out of the car during our errands, I had to stop and stretch my quads because they'd tighten up on the road.

Friday was pretty relaxed - I think we just stayed home and watched the Olympics. Saturday involved LOTS of driving around. I wanted to check out Minnehaha Falls as a wedding venue, it's outdoors, and very pretty. Unfortunately, there was ALREADY a wedding taking place, so we couldn't park, or really look around. I tried to take some drive-by pictures, but I think they turned out blurry. Hehehe. Then it was off to Kahn's Mongolian Grill. They didn't open until noon, and it was only 11:30 or so. So we wandered over to IKEA and killed some time, then back to Kahn's. I think we got turned around a couple of times during this whole run, too, so that wracked up the miles.

There were two other parks I wanted to visit that day, but it never happened. We stopped at Target and got a bunch of crap, then came home. On Sunday, we went to Clifton French Park in Plymouth, but everything looked very picnic-y. Shelters, not a lot of cleared-off grass, and sand volleyball at every one. Not quite my style. I learned from a co-worker today that there's actually a large building that the ceremony could be in. I'll have to go check that out. Groceries were bought, and baseball and Olympics were watched.

We got into more wedding stuff this weekend, and I was trying to figure out how much the average wedding cost in this area. Quite a bit. I had no idea weddings were so expensive. We're going to try to keep ours around $10,000, which means that in 13 months, we'd have to save $770 each month. Yikes. I don't know if we can do that. We're going to try to save a lot of money by having friends help us out. We already have at least three individuals who have offered their services to us in the areas of music and photography. Now, if we can just have one of our friends ordained as a priest over the internet, we'd be set! Too bad we didn't have someone's large back yard, or someone who worked in the food industry. That would really help out.

We'll just have to see what we can do!