It was a good time this weekend as the Glanzers made the pilgrimage from Carpenter to the southwest suburbs of Minneapolis to pay me a visit. Mom and Dad arrived safe and sound Friday evening, and went out with me and Lauren for dinner at Granite City. Afterwards, the two got a taste of my style of living when they visited our Uptown Minneapolis house. They were particularly intrigued by a Christmas sweater-clad Roscoe, who wowed them with his ability to beg, sit, roll over, and play dead on command.
Saturday, Lauren and I hit up yet another possible wedding venue. This time, it was out to Eden Prairie, very close to Lauren’s former home, to check out the Olympic Hills Country Club. For the first time, Lauren walked away feeling very optimistic. It had everything we were looking for and amazingly was on the lower end price-wise of the places we’d seen so far. If we were going to pick a place and date right now, it would be Olympic Hills on October 3. But we still have at least one more place to visit before we can start telling you to save that date!
So later Saturday night, the Glanzers and Poulters met for the first time. Mom, Dad, Steve, and Anne all seemed to get along very well. Most of us seemed to enjoy the food at Macaroni Grill, as we sat and chatted for over two hours. And then Sunday morning the Glanzers were right back over to the Poulter residence for brunch before departing. There, Mom and Dad met the whole family, with Kate, Tim, Pete, Sarah, Abby, and Nate also in attendance. Now we just need Jordan, Alex, and their crews to meet Steve and Anne and everyone will be very well acquainted.
Monday night after work, Lauren and I did some grocery shopping, did laundry, and watched the latest Dexter. The rest of the week is mostly up in the air, though I have promised Travis and Jonny to do some website work for them and I keep putting it off. Thanksgiving plans are currently to stick around Minnesota. I agreed to come out of DJ retirement to do one last dance November 29 for the AA group, since I was asked back by special request. But this time it’s for real—that really will be the last one!
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We had fun visiting you both and meeting the new extended family, but am much more at ease on the lonely, desolate roads of rural South Dakota. Next time we’re there I’ll have Lauren take me to the best shopping spots, Dad isn’t an expert on those, but he did a commendable job on chauferring me around.
I’ve been telling Mom that she needs to start her own blog…maybe the poll results will give her that little extra nudge that she needs to get one going. She claims that she doesn’t have enough to talk about, but she and I manage to yak on the phone for at least a half hour every day anyway. Okay, mostly she just listens to me rant about one thing or another, but that’s aside from the point…A Mom Blog would be very fun to read!
The trouble with starting my own blog, is that I don’t know how! With Ryan, all I have to do is type it up and email it to him. I’m not exactly a computer whiz, you know! But thanks for the vote of confidence.