This weekend was fun! Well, mostly. Some parts of it were sad.

The original plan involved going out wedding dress shopping with Garrison’s fiancée and my mom. We all went out for tasty breakfast, and then headed to Hanover to start our search.
Erin is a good bride to shop with. She had an idea in her head of what she wanted, but she wasn’t a bridezilla about it. Once we found the dress, we knew we’d found the dress, and didn’t have to look at 47 million other places to make sure we had “the best dress ever”. As it turned out, the dress was the first one she tried on, though she did try on 7 or 8 afterwards just to get through the other ones she had liked on the rack. It’s not poofy, but very elegant. It looks just stunning on her, too. I’d post a pic, but I forgot to get them off my mom’s camera. Plus, there is a really-low-but-non-zero chance that my brother might see my blog some time in the next 8 months.

To top it off, the dress was on sale for 1/2 off, and we were done shopping by noon!

Then we came back home and my mom and I got ready to go to Ms. Thielman’s memorial service. We met up with Dan Lynch there, along with most of the high school teachers. I got to talk to my favourite teachers, Mr. & Mrs. Taylor, for about 5 seconds, but that was nice.

The service was nice, too. It consisted of a few people who had known her standing up and saying a few words. There was a lot I hadn’t known about her. I’m not surprised, but I think it would have been nice to know before now that she loved Star Trek and wrote sci-fi stories for her writing group.
She had a small beige marble urn, inscribed with her name, and below that “Boldly Go…”.
Star Wars music, among other things, played in the background of the memorial photo montage CD.

By the time we got back, it was too dark to go out and plant the Letterbox I made for Kincardine.
My mom and dad and I went out early Sunday morning to try and plant it. We had a lovely little walk and found a great place, but there wasn’t enough time to backtrack and make viable clues to lead other people to it before I had to leave (before 10am). 🙁 So I had to un-hide it and take it back to Guelph with me.
At the time, I was really pissed off at the stupid Guelph parade, and the stupid city of Guelph fort having a parade in the middle of the day instead of at dusk when floats could be lit up, and more importantly, instead of at a time that would have let me do all of my tasks for the weekend. 😛

That said, once I got there I had an awesome time at the parade!

I’m the one in the green dragon PJs! ^_^
We walked along and gave out candy to little kids. When the candy ran out, kids were just as happy getting a high-five or hugging Tiger or Guilmon. A couple times I had to rescue when she got stuck in a pile of children way back from where our group was. Haha!
We all had a blast and are totally doing it again next year!!
Now all we need to do is find someone who has cable so that we can watch the recording of the parade!