Back To Minny Today

Tracy and I are headed back to Minnesota for the weekend to shore up some wedding planning. Well, actually Tracy is shoring up the the wedding planning. I'll be taking off for a three-day weekend of snowboarding and debauchery with 8 of my friends. Either way, it sounds like we both have a good weekend in store.

On Thursday we're meeting with the female pastor at Bethlehem Lutheran in St. Cloud at 11 a.m., taking our engagement photos at 1 p.m. and trying to take a deep breath at 4 p.m.! Thursday night I'm back to the cities to meet up with Siegrist to get the snowboarding trip started.

Tracy's wedding fun has only begun, however, as she heads to St. Paul on Friday with her mom and friends to pick out bride's maid dresses. She's also got a meeting scheduled with two bakeries for cake tasting on Saturday. Somehow she's managed to schedule those back to back. Good luck avoiding the sugar high. She'll probably feel like a 7-year-old all coked out on sugar. Meanwhile, I'll be on my third or fourth beer at the ski lodge.

On Sunday, Tracy is heading to Bethlehem Lutheran to take in a church service there with her mom and get a better feel for the pastor's sermon style. Hopefully she takes some time to pray for all my sins. I'll probably be on Bloody Mary two already by that point. After the church service, Tracy is heading to the Blue Line Bar & Grill with her mom for a meeting with a DJ. She'll be on beer one. Meanwhile, I'll be on beer seven.

Finally on Monday, Tracy is meeting with a florist and I'll be recovering from a three-day hangover. When we meet back in the cities for our 4:30 p.m. flight home, hopefully I'm coherent enough to take in all Tracy's wedding activities. Considering I haven't drank in three weeks, it could be a LONG trip home from Michigan to SoCal on Monday.