Kris: The past few weeks have continued to be trying on us financially but while it's very stressful, a few things are very exciting. One evening we went to Queen of Cakes to sit down and talk about our wedding cake and options for evening cupcakes. Their prices are very reasonable and we got plenty of options for cakes and frostings. Yikes seriously we EACH got like 10 half slices of cake on a platter to try. Both of us fell in love with the red velvet as top choice. We have some fun designs started but I think I'll keep that a secret and not spoil the surprise.
We also signed a contract with Charles and Mike from Forever Films that will be helping us to capture our lives together and help us show off our wedding. When we met with them, they were totally on the same lines of thought that we were and had some great ideas. So after a lot of careful thought and many $$$ we've got a fantastic project in play! Again, not going to spoil the fun on this one, you'll have to be at the reception to be part of this one :)
(And Charles, Mike, if you guys are reading this, I'm sure we'll get you to be Caribou Coffee fans before this is all over ;)
Mark: Kris forgot to mention another financial setback we had during the past few weeks. My dog Ruger broke open the tip of his tail and unfortunately it would not heal up and became badly infected resulting in us making the decision to have his tail amputated. He gets his stitches out on Friday and I will then post before and after pics.
Kris: We also got to take our engagement photos!! Last Tuesday our friend Sarah McGee, a fabulous photographer, took our photos down around Lake Calhoun which of course holds a very special place to both of us. We had a blast, the weather was perfect and I am anxiously waiting to see the final results! I'll show some off as soon as we get them :D
This past weekend started with a 5k race in Eden Prairie. You can check our personal blogs for the recaps on that. I just posted mine earlier tonight. Mark: I will hopefully post mine in a day or so.
Kris: So Saturday after the 5k we did a quick change and headed down to Nerstrand State Park for the Spring MnGCA event. It was about an hour drive and with the pouring rain we had to get through it took a bit longer. Here are a few blubs about our adventures :)
After lunch and a few fun caching contests (oh I won a really cool book and Mark won the Splinterheads movie!) we headed into the forest. It was go green and so pretty!
We ran into ISpy and his family and came upon this really odd tree. It looks like some time in the very distance past someone stuck a step between these two trunks and the tree has grown in. Kinda heart shaped :)
We then headed over to this waterfall which was also an earthcache.
We kept seeing these signs about endangered plants and that this one was only found in just 3 counties in Minnesota. We think this might be one of them but weren't able to find out for sure.
Before heading across the road to the southern half of the park for a "quick" multi we stopped for a picture.
Mark: So as the day was getting late we decided to try for one more cache, a multi called "A Walk in the Woods" Unfortunatly the name of the cache was was not just a name, it was very descriptive. The first stage was close by, just across the road from the park office.
Stage 1 was such a cute little little charater.
Along the way Kris decided to try her Jane imitation with a vine hanging from a tree.
Stage 2 was about a 3/4 mile walk from Stage 1 and was another very creative container.
On the walk to the Stage 3, the final stage, we decided to grab another cache that we had writted off earlier as it was too far away in the park. Apparently not since we had to walk right past it on the way to Stage 3. The cache was at a bridge at the southern edge of the park. We made the find quickly and dropped a few TB's and one of our pathatgs for the next cacher to make the trek. Now for the return trip, which was about a mile and a half back to the car. All in all this one cache took us about an hour and a half, not part of the plan, and we ended up getting home much later then we planned on, but we had a great day!
(Ok Blogger people....please make pictures faster and easier to upload. This post took me WAY to long to put together. And why can't I figure out out to put the pictures in the words anymore? Sigh....)
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