Weekend Part 2

What a ride.... I feel like I spent 24 hours on the Texas Giant.  Sunday we hauled it back from the Farm before lunch, so I could meet Andrea, her mom Marianne, and Andrea's friend, Erin Spalding, for lunch, and then for an appointment for wedding dress shopping.  Oh, wow....way fun and I've never seen so many dresses.  Luckily, Andrea had already viewed dresses online and had three she wanted to try, with one being the clear favorite.  Erin told her she had to try it on last, of the three, or she'd never look at anything else.  Excellent advice.  When Andrea walked out in number 3, we all just gasped...and then eyes got teary, and then we all laughed.  Andrea was such a great sport, she let us pull a dress or two that we just wanted to see what it looked like on, including one that was so big, she almost disappeared in it.  She is a teeny little thing so she had to have several pairs of clamps on the backs of all the dresses, to approximate her size, and the enormous fluff one was just hilarious. She looked like the bride figurine at the top of a wedding cake, with the dress being the cake. 

For those not in the know, there was more excitement.  It seems Andrea and Benji felt a Dallas wedding was just getting way bigger and more expensive than they wanted to go, so now....drum roll, please...the bride and groom, their parents, Benji's brother Brian, and a couple of close friends, are all eloping in late September to Capri, Italy, for a wedding!  Wow!!  This old MOG (mother of the Groom) can't wait!  We quickly reversed our engines when this was decided Thursday night, they cancelled all their venue shopping appointments here for all day Saturday, and "chill-axed", to quote Benji.  To say that both families were relieved is an understatement!

The Gonzalez's took the Harris's to dinner Sunday night and I will say this:  Andrea's parents could not possibly be more fun, more reasonable, more delightful people on the planet.  We had Cuban and Puerto Rican food at a wonderful place in Addison (Carribean Cafe), and Francisco taught us all about the food.  It was a so fun to be with them and to try something new!! What a blast it will be to combine our families and to let Sister and Stella (Airedale) get to know one another.  Stella is a pistol so she and Sis ought to be another Thelma and Louise.  Ohhh, Lordy.

Mom's move is set for Friday, and Benji and I ran by for a second yesterday, so he could see her before he headed back for Nash last night.  She wasn't in her room so we went down to Physical Therapy and there she was.  Due to her most recent falls--and there have been many--she has a lovely bruise running down the left side of her face.  Benji told her about the change in wedding plans and she immediately wanted to know if she was going!  Though several of the PT's volunteered to accompany her on a trip to Italy, we told her the trip was too long and too far for her to make safely, but that we'd bring back loads of pictures .  She was fine with that.  And, we told her we'd bring her cake. 


P. S. Benji found out yesterday that Scarletta's fiddle player, Nathan, is going to be on American Idol this Wednesday night, playing a song for a gal they've written songs for --and, of course, I can't remember the gal's name.  Anywho, tune in to see Nathan tear up a fiddle in the solo part of the song Wednesday.