Plot: Visitors weekend

How I miss this girl. I was so excited that she came to spend the weekend with us, though not so excited for some of the other events of the weekend.

Friday night before Kelly arrived, we received a knock on our door from our landlord. She had a troubled look on her face and asked to look at our hot water heater, apparently the apartment below us was getting soaked. About an hour after that we had some men come shut our water off and told us we would be getting a new heater in the morning. Kelly arrived shortly after this.

Sure enough, at 9 the next morning we had a new hot water heater being installed. I was so excited, since previously we

only had enough hot water to take one hot shower and one lukewarm one.

We went out for the day with Kelly, showed her around town and such, but when we came back we had yet another surprise. Some men were in our apartment installing "Driz" an industrial vacuum that sucks water out of the floor. It had to run constantly for three days... awesome.

*below* "Driz"

However, we did not let this stop us from enjoying the weekend. We also did a fun craft while Kelly was here. Nathan and I bought some muslin fabric to make curtains out of and some coffee to dye them. They didn't turn out quite as dark as we thought they would, but we like them. I'll let the series of pictures tell the story.

Coffee pot fail lets try boiling it ready to pour

stirring and such

So exhausting..

For finished product please see our video labled: Setting

Thanks to Kelly for photographing these special events:)

Plot: Our week long adventure - The Honeymoon

After a six hour drive from Michigan the day after our wedding, we were home, but not for very long. We unloaded our over packed car and heaped it into our living room. Very exhausted we climbed into bed for the night.

We intended on leaving at 10 the next morning. We were not too far off that mark despite the packing, breakfast, and showering that all took place.

The drive to Maryland was something like an 11 hours to our destination, the Elk Forge Lodge Bed and Breakfast. I was questioning whether it was even worth it to travel this far for a bed and breakfast. As it turned out, it was. The place was beautiful, a huge old house with stained glass windows, three floors of rooms, sitting areas, a game room, and a conservatory, where breakfast was served every morning.

The night we arrived we got in a little later than anticipated. We went to the front door, which we were told would be unlocked..it wasn't. We thought maybe this isn't the front door, so we proceeded to walk all the way around the building at 11:30 at night, with only our phone light to guide us. Finally we found a doorbell and someone came down to let us in. We were so tired, we climbed in bed and went to sleep.

The following day Nathan had some homework due, so he worked on that while I napped.

We found out that we were right on the border of Delaware, a state with no sales tax and we had just opened all of our cards from the wedding. We ventured over there for the day to spend some of our Target money-our best buy was a board game called othello.

On Thanksgiving, we thought we would go to a restaurant that we had a coupon for. It was located on a river, a tiny little town clearly only inhabited during the summer. We found the restaurant and thought that the sign said that they would be open at 5. It was 4:30 so we stayed and despite the misty cold air we got out to walk around a little bit. As 5 o'clock rolled around, we went back to the restaurant to find it still deserted. Reading the sign a little closer we find out that the Thanksgiving dinner was served yesterday. That being a bust, we start back toward the B&B looking for anywhere that was open. About two hours later, we are both starving, we look to our right and we see a place that is open that isn't a McDonald's. We came upon a shady little diner named " The Chuck Wagon." They are serving an all you can eat Thanksgiving dinner and they were open, we couldn't pass it up. We had the nicest seats in the house, right next to the electric fire place. We had our fill, then went back to our room, totally satisfied with our first Thanksgiving dinner together.

Nathan and I went out to a nice restaurant one night and ordered a meal of appetizers and wine, in my opinion, it was the best meal we had. I love variety in a meal.

We were back in Kentucky the following Saturday and went to church on Sunday. Concluding our first adventure as a married couple.