BOOM - Crunch

Yesterday the title of the blog was going to be Happy Anniversary however things happen and now we are at Boom Crunch.
We got back from Cincinnati on Tuesday and on Friday we clebrated our 4 year dating anniversary - how exciting.
We got many things done while in cinci - of course the only one we have pictures of is the hair...

Shirley Temple ringletts were loosened and put into and updo.

After sleeping on the updo, and taking outthe pins it still looked good. We love hairspray.... To celebrate our anniversary Matthew booked us reservations at the Portland city grill. On the way home to get ready for our fancy date Leah was spectacularly rear ended while on the highway. We are waiting to see what all the insurance says. In the meantime, dealing with moving the car and such we have to reschedule our date. Oh well, instead we celebrated our anniversarry with pizza. Greese is great for celebrating and calming VERY shaky nerves.

HOORAY!!!

Quick update!
The bag has arrived! The driver pulled into the driveway at 12:59, which technically is before 1, just like the airline promised...

Cincinnati

Well we made it.

Apparently 100 flights were cancelled out of Chicago when Matthew and I were trying to connect to get to Ohio. Our flight was canceled, however very painlessly we were able to get a new flight. This was done because Matthew is amazing!! (I try not to say this too often because his ego does not need many boosts, but truely this was GREAT.) We stood in line waiting for a stressed and harrassed looking United agent while Matthew called the number on his fancy Premier exec card and talked to a guy in India. By the time we got to our turn he had already rebooked us. All we had to do was confirm the reservation and have them print out new boarding passes for us.

The best part was we got switched from flying to Columbus to flying to cincinnati for the price of flying in to Columbus. - 45 minute car ride compared to 2 and a half hours - and with all that crazyness we were only 2 hours later than planned. Too bad we forgot we had luggage transfered to Cincinnati - it made it to Clumbus though. Matthew has been wearing the same clothing for 2 days now, however my Imma and Elana chipped in and I have been smelling QUITE clean and fresh. It is now almost 1 AM and we have been sitting up awake waiting for it to arrive (we were promised it would be here by 1) We will see.

Beyond the fabulous part of seeing people, our visit to Cincinnati has been primarily wedding business. Here is our agenda:

Monday

11:00-Meet with Rabbi

12:00-Meet with synagogue gift shop and plan registry

1:00-lunch and if time check out the Hotel we are booking the blocks of rooms.

2:00-hair appointment

Tuesday

10:30 - Florist

11:30 - Band/DJ

1:00 -Tasting at Manor house ( we have been warned that there is one plate for all of us opefully there is time for lunch before the tasting)

2:30 - meet with Andrea, our wedding planner, to go over all our meetings.

Wednesday - Fly home.

Thank you much to Leah's Parents for puting us up and running us on our errands for a few days.

In between all that we have other plans and details to do. My Imma has already shown us more Ketubah sketches and Laurie showed us Chupah designs before we left. Caitlin even reviewed the program for us and said it made sense!!! Lots of progress since school begins on Thursday.

Tonight in Cincinnati it snowed, so to liven up the blog here are pictures of Matthew and I on our quest to the Nutcracker in Portland's snow at the end of 2008 - we took public transit and everything.

12:45 and no clothes. Tomorrow - we may need to do laundry..... Good night.