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April 24, 2005

Surprised Wedding Shower, $$, Stuff, $$

Our 1st VP, Carolyn, came down from Chicago to visit us on Thursday and Friday. :o) She's such a nice lady. I really enjoy hanging out with her. She was all asking about the wedding and stuff too. :o) We all went out to Bahama Breeze after work on Thursday night. Had a great time.

Friday we found out that Carolyn's flight back to Chicago was cancelled, so they managed to put her on an earlier flight that left at 2pm. I was going about my business...heating up food to eat, etc. etc. My boss, Cheryl, called me at around noon from one of the conference rooms out of the blue, demanding why I wasn't at the meeting. Thinking someone was amiss (there wasn't a meeting scheduled in my calendar for that time), I strolled over towards the conference room to see what was up. As I approached the conference room, Fabria, a co-worker, told me to hang on 'cuz she thought there was still a meeting going on...as she passed by with punch bowl, etc. Now, REALLY suspecting that something was going on, I hung out with Gary for a little while at his desk (who, as it turned out, was stalling for the people in the conference room). Then one of our VPs called me over and opened the conference room door. Turns out it was a surprised wedding shower for us!!! :o)

They had people in Chicago hooked up to the party via video conferencing, and there were cakes in each location...mine in Dallas was completely pink (thanks to Cheryl), and the one in Chicago was chocolate. :p Lots of people showed up. Fabria had coordinated everyone to give us marital advice, and she put them together in this little photo album. :o) Hee hee. It was a great time. We got a HUGE check (as in $430) from everyone. So touched. :o)

Saturday Greg went to see his nephew Marshall, who's in town visiting his friend Eric. Marshall and Eric have an NFL Draft party every year, so Greg goes to it to hang out with them. :p I went to Microcenter to check out some iPods 'cuz they're running a special where if you open a credit card account with them, you get $75 back in mail-in rebate when you buy an iPod. Anyways, talked to the guy in the Apple department...and ended up buying a 30GB iPod Photo. The thing is pretty awesome. :o) Also bought a case for it. Hee hee.

After the Microcenter excursion, I went up to visit my parents, and to bring my Dad the shirt that Greg had bought for him to wear at the wedding. It fitted perfectly! :o) Had lunch with the folks...we oogled over some digital cameras, then went clothes/shoes shopping with my Mom. That was pretty fun. We went to DSW, Kohl's, Best Buy (to look at the cameras in person), and then to the grocery stores to pick up something for dinner. Yep. Had dinner with my parents and then came home. :o)

Today Paul came over in the afternoon, and then we went up to the Allen outlet mall to go get him some pants for the wedding. He and Greg ended up getting new sandals too at Bass. :p And we bought Paul a new Samsonite bag to take his stuff to Jamaica (the Best Man's gift). :o) We almost bought ourselves a nice new set of suitcases, but didn't. Hee hee. Greg almost bought a new suit for the reception...they're holding it for him to decide. :o) It's an $800 Italian handmade suit that they're selling for $300 'cuz of the 50% off sale that they're running. It was beautimus. Hee hee.

Posted by alpha at April 24, 2005 01:55 PM | Wedding

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