Back from Denver
Sep. 9th, 2009 12:19 pmThe good:
The wedding itself, which was beautiful.
Jen and I going to Barnes and Noble (yay books!!) and to this makeup store called Sephora-- the girl who worked there, Elli, was fantastic. Jen got some stuff for the wedding and I got a couple of lipsticks that actually don't make me feel like a circus clown, so that was cool.
Heading out on walks around the condo at Keystone . . . gorgeous area, and all the people we met on the trails were so nice.
Seeing the mountains again.
Kaylee only crying in the car for about five minutes total out of a 24-hour round trip.
Coming home to find Season 4 of Supernatural ((yay!!! Amanda, get here asap. ;-)))
The bad:
Having a bit of a mini-panic attack at the reception due to there being a heck of a lot of people around I didn't know. I ended up hiding in one of the bedrooms and hoping no one would notice I was gone, but that didn't work out so well. Feh on my weird crowd-phobia thing.
Driving home in the pouring rain, and of course the storm followed us home and I got woken up several times by thunder crashing.
Coming home to a full inbox, and then actually opening said inbox and finding that everything was from spammers.
The ugly:
The hairdresser Jen went to (or rather, the hairdresser's boss). Went to a place called Fantastic Sam's, and the girl who did Jenny's hair was awesome, but when she got done with it the boss confronted her and Aunt Karen and demanded forty more dollars. Apparently at salons like that you pay for a couple of hairstyles pre-wedding to see which one you like best, and the stylist could only do one on the first day, so Jen came back for the other. The boss wanted to count that as a whole separate thing rather than something that had already been paid for, and finally Aunt Karen just paid the extra. Which I'm sure is what the idiot was counting on, pouncing at somebody less than six hours before the wedding. They're apparently going to file a complaint with the BBB, though, so that's good.
The lady who rented them the two condos for everyone to stay in for the overnight party/reception told Aunt Karen when she went to pick up the keys that one wasn't clean and oh by the way, she thought the owners might still be in it, but she'd "hook her up" with something else (which turned out to of course be more expensive). Fortunately Aunt Karen found a different place, but man was it all seriously stressful.
The wedding itself, which was beautiful.
Jen and I going to Barnes and Noble (yay books!!) and to this makeup store called Sephora-- the girl who worked there, Elli, was fantastic. Jen got some stuff for the wedding and I got a couple of lipsticks that actually don't make me feel like a circus clown, so that was cool.
Heading out on walks around the condo at Keystone . . . gorgeous area, and all the people we met on the trails were so nice.
Seeing the mountains again.
Kaylee only crying in the car for about five minutes total out of a 24-hour round trip.
Coming home to find Season 4 of Supernatural ((yay!!! Amanda, get here asap. ;-)))
The bad:
Having a bit of a mini-panic attack at the reception due to there being a heck of a lot of people around I didn't know. I ended up hiding in one of the bedrooms and hoping no one would notice I was gone, but that didn't work out so well. Feh on my weird crowd-phobia thing.
Driving home in the pouring rain, and of course the storm followed us home and I got woken up several times by thunder crashing.
Coming home to a full inbox, and then actually opening said inbox and finding that everything was from spammers.
The ugly:
The hairdresser Jen went to (or rather, the hairdresser's boss). Went to a place called Fantastic Sam's, and the girl who did Jenny's hair was awesome, but when she got done with it the boss confronted her and Aunt Karen and demanded forty more dollars. Apparently at salons like that you pay for a couple of hairstyles pre-wedding to see which one you like best, and the stylist could only do one on the first day, so Jen came back for the other. The boss wanted to count that as a whole separate thing rather than something that had already been paid for, and finally Aunt Karen just paid the extra. Which I'm sure is what the idiot was counting on, pouncing at somebody less than six hours before the wedding. They're apparently going to file a complaint with the BBB, though, so that's good.
The lady who rented them the two condos for everyone to stay in for the overnight party/reception told Aunt Karen when she went to pick up the keys that one wasn't clean and oh by the way, she thought the owners might still be in it, but she'd "hook her up" with something else (which turned out to of course be more expensive). Fortunately Aunt Karen found a different place, but man was it all seriously stressful.