Catching Up

There's been so much going on, but I just haven't had time to sit down and write about it. The most notable event occurred last weekend in DeWitt, Iowa. I drove down for a friends wedding on Saturday after working at Avis in the morning. Aaron Soenksen married his college sweetheart Shannon Meyer at the Grace Lutheran church at 3pm. Aaron was also my flight instructor throughout my commercial flight training. We have kept in touch and even attended a couple of minor leage baseball games together. The service was beautiful and the music and vocalists were enchanting. My favorite part was releasing of butterflies after the service before moving on to the reception. The butterflies were flown in overnight and when they opened the boxes that they were in, they woke up and flew away. It was very cool. Most of the other people that I knew from school were in the wedding party, so I was assigned a table with a few "randoms". I met a few familes that were members of the country club and another gentleman who was a pilot in the second world war. Dinner consisted of salad and a pasta buffet. Afterward there was dacing for those who stuck around. I stayed for most of the night, but had to drive back to Dubuque since I had not made any plans to stay at a hotel or with anyone.
Sunday through Tuesday it was back to the grind. I put in a good amount of hours. Tuesday I worked for my boss at Mesaba in the morning after working the night before so that he could go home to see family. He was supposed to fly out, but ran late and missed the flight. So I drove him to Moline, IL to catch another flight. Later that day, we ran out of paper for printing contracts on at Avis and we had a car with inoperative air conditioning. So my Avis boss and I drove down to Moline again to get paper and drop off the car to be repaired. Needless to say, I didn't need directions the second time around.
Wednesday, I the day off entirely. I woke up around 11:30 and did a few chores around the house. Laundry needed to be done badly and I needed to enter some receipts in my ledger. I was about to leave the house when I saw that a new roommate was moving in with the girls up stairs. They had to get a kitchen table, a tv, and a sofa up stairs. So I offered to help them. We got the table up no problem because the legs were easily removable. Fortunately, I was still working on putting the table back together and I didn't have to help with the TV. It fit through the doors fine, but it was a heavy TV and took a lot of grunt work. The sofa was an entirely different story. It didn't fit up the front stairs because the door frame was too narrow. The back stairway and doors were wider, but we had to get the couch around 3 - 90 degree corners. We put a small hole in the wall forcing it up the stiars, but we got it! Afterward I headed over to a friend's parents' house to swim. Following that we went to the new Tony Roma's in town. I had the grilled norwegian salmon with rice and fresh broccoli. We had to cut out early though to make it to the movie on time becase the waitress was so slow. We saw the proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. It was very funny. And that was my day off!
Today before work I got measured for a tux for the wedding that I will be in on August 8th. Sadly, this means that I won't be able to attend the Koopsen reunion this fall. Will try to make up for it some weekend tho. Kalamazoo is a fairly easy destination to get to and with relatives close by it would be an easy mid week or weekend getaway.
All for now. Time to go clean some cars!