August 2014: Outdoor Activities Month

We were having trouble deciding a theme for August as Chris was going to have to be out of down again for alot of it. We were trying to find something that would still work while he was gone, so we decided that when he was back in town for the weekend we would find things to do outdoors. The first weekend we started kind of slow. We ended up going to an outdoor patio and having a drink and then went to see a movie with friends. Afterwards, we walked around the Arbor Lakes area and stopped into Trader Joes to get something for dinner. So, not the best start to an outdoors weekend, but we progressively got better. The weekend after was my birthday weekend, on Friday, August 8th, we drove up to Acadia, Wisconsin and stopped at a few wineries on our way up. When we got to Acadia, there was a festival going on where we spent time outside checking out the festival and having some dinner. We then sat down to watch The Beach Boys perform. It was pretty funny, they are so old now and singing about 3 girls for every boy, and "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older..." Chris somehow convinced me that we should to swing dance in front of the beach boys. We went right up to the center of the stage and security kicked us to the side. I was a bit embarrassed, but we finished the song. Afterwards, the crowd was so large that we ended up having trouble getting out of there and boy did I really want to not be standing in front of a massive crowd any more. We ended up squeezing through masses of people and got back to where my family was sitting. While the beach boys were still playing, my Aunt Cheryl, Mom, and Dad and us decided to go and start with the lantern launch. We met up with another group of about 10 people who were also launching and it looked so amazingly cool that we decided we want to do it at our wedding. Not long after the Lantern launch, it was time to head home. It was about 930 or so and about 10pm when we got back to the car and we had a 2 hour drive back. It was a very pleasant day! On Saturday August 9th, Chris made me a delicious birthday breakfast and then we went to the farmer's market. It was kind of sad that they didn't have any coffee. We then went to check out tent rentals for our wedding.