Wedding preparation part 1

Again it is almost one month since I wrote the last blog entry. Beside the daily work, the coming fall and end of daylight saving time in Germany (which means early evenings) it was the time for our annual Halloween Party. This time it had a new attraction: Frankenstein's monster. Or better: Frank's monster. My engineering friend Frank adds a new animated display to every party and this year he added the above mentioned monster. We now have a ghost appearing from behind a gravestone, Dracula, a werewolf, a self opened coffin and this monster. Together with all the crosses and the gravestones my backyard looked really spooky. We served some soup and cut off fingers during the party. The fingers were really cool. We cut "Wiener Sausages" in half, added an almond as a finger nail and decorated this with some ketchup. I got this idea from the Internet. The woman who posted this said she prepared it for a kids' Halloween party and it looked so real that no kid wanted to eat one of them. Well, my looked real, too, but they were gone at the end of the night.

I also visited a trade fair with some friends. I wanted to have a first quick look at wedding dresses for the church wedding in June. When I talked to the people working there they all mentioned that I should seriously start looking and getting a dress 6 months in advance. Six months!!!! I didn't even think of this until last week. Now it seams I really should get going. I will meet with a friend next week and try to find what looks nice on me. I already showed Dave some on the Internet to find out what he likes or dislikes.
We will also look for wedding rings when he is Germany mid of November. We need the rings already in March when we will have the civil wedding in Alaska.
And I received some sample invitation cards. After showing them to Dave last weekend we have two to choose from. I will try to print everything we want to have mentioned on them and by next weekend we will decide which one we want.

I still need to talk to Jane and Al for the Alaska wedding. I hoped by today I could talk to my boss and confirm the date (March 18) and my vacation, but unfortunately he is on a business trip. I probably have the chance to talk to him tomorrow. After that I really need to call Al and give him more details on this.

The last weekend was a very long weekend in England. I flew out on Wednesday evening and we had four very nice days. After one year in England we finally bought a TV and DVD player. We don't really need TV, but for the long winter evenings watching a DVD every now and then will be nice. We also brought our mountain bikes to a bike store in Cambridge. We tried to have everything adjusted at the base, but for some reason they were not able to do it. We will be able to pick the bikes up next weekend.
On Saturday we went to the sea. It is only a one hour drive from where we live and we enjoyed the day there. Amber, Dave's Golden Retrieve, loved running at the beach and swimming in the sea. We enjoyed a picnic in the sand. It was really warm for November. Mainly because of no wind.













I hope that kept you a little bit up to date. Some pictures will follow (here or at flickr).