Dash

Well, I'm back from a very quick trip to Michigan. Roland's sister Marcie was married on Saturday. It was a lovely wedding and a hoppin' reception, but I was certainly exhausted when we got back. Roland canceled class on Friday so we could fly up to Detroit where we rented a car and drove over to Muskegon. Then we attended the festivities on Saturday, got a little sleep, and were up early to drive back over to Detroit. We got back here early evening on Sunday. I did take some pictures at the wedding, but didn't get many at the reception because my battery didn't want to hold a charge very well. I guess that is the (very small) down side to getting my Dad's hand-me-down electronics. By the time I get them I probably need to replace the battery.

Although I really like the camera that I'm using, it's really quite small and fits nicely into my pocket for easy carrying, I think I would really like some sort of larger camera that has more features/is more adjustable. I was looking in my local adult education brochure and they have a couple classes that I could take so maybe I could really take some nice photos. One of the other women on the flyball team has a really nice, but older, Nikon that makes me drool.

Moms

Most of my pictures from Marcie's shower didn't turn out very well (too much back light now matter which way I turned), but I did get a nice one of Mom C. and my Mom. It's a little washed out but I don't have photoshop on the laptop to try and fix it so that will have to wait until I get back to my desktop.

Skeletons

I have officially been rocked. The Sk88 show on Friday was awesome and I had a really good time. I really dig some of their tunes (usually the ones Anne sings are my favorites) and their cover of Don't Take Your Guns to Town is awesome. I just wish I could be one tenth as cool as Anne. It was kind of a bummer that we couldn't stay for the Burning Bushes (who I've never actually gotten to see), but by the time Sk88 finished it was already 1 and we still had to drive back to Big Rapids so we could leave from there the next morning to get to Muskegon for Marcie's baby shower.

The shower went very well and I had a good time. We had all the awesome shower/open house type food; little potato roll sandwiches, pasta salad, chips/vegetables and Mom's-super-awesome-dill-dip, and whatnot. The cake was delicious and the people seemed to be having a good time. Then today we had the Bollenbach (Dave's Mom's side) Christmas get together. It was orginally planned for next Saturday, but it turns out Dave's cousin April is gratuating from Western that day (go April!). It was a pretty full house at somewhere around 20 people with a scruptious meal involving Grandma Bettie's dumplings. We have the next week to hang out here in Muskegon and then we have the Cleveland (Dave's Dad's side) Christmas next Sunday. I'm hoping that we will be able to get ahold of Chad this week so we can see him and his family. Ooh and maybe we can sneak in another time to see Laura and Ryan.