SNOW in Duluth!

So, it's been snowing....and snowing...and snowing in Duluth lately. So far, we have been stuck driving in it for 7.5 hours from Fargo, ND to Duluth, got stuck going up hills, and watched others get stuck as we walked by on our day off. We recently got a magnetic card to let us into a parking garage 2 blocks down from our apartment. I went to use it for the first time today and was delighted to see a completely clean car with no snow on or around it. I think it was a good investment to do that. I'll send some pictures to you mom...they won't upload on blogger.

We have a ceremony site!

I just got the email Neil and I have been waiting for!! We were hoping to have the ceremony at the Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth, but we had been "on-hold" for a couple of months now. The original rent was going to be something like $1,000, but the CEO assured Neil that he was going to try and get the price down so we could have the wedding there. And boy did the price go down. The confirmed quote is $50 per hour!!! Can't really beat that price for that location and that awesome space. I'm pretty excited about it! It's really close to Canal Park and it overlooks the lift bridge and Lake Superior. YAY! ok, now time for bed.

Oh, I guess I should say work went well this week. Only 55 hours or so, but I've actually seen Neil and have only been working one job a day so far.

pay day!!

Hi mom, so I finally got paid! Just for one weeks worth of work at the chocolate factory, but it was definitely nice to get some money in the bank. I also got a plane ticket to go to Pittsburgh, PA for my friend Katie's wedding. I'll be going Friday morning and coming back Sunday. It will be fun because I'll get to see many of my friends from Clarion. I miss them a lot!

My job at the front desk is going well. There is more down time, however, my feet still get just as tired. At the chocolate factory, I got to make an 11 pound batch of pecan fudge! I used a huge copper kettle and a gas stove and then had to pour it onto a granite slab and use a long spatula to mix it around to make fudge. I got to take home a sample of it too. It was tasty :)

In the wedding planning news...I've been working so much that I haven't really been able to do anything about it. Since working at the chocolate factory, however, I have two ideas for the head table and maybe around the cake. Either a bride and groom caramel apples or bride and groom chocolate covered strawberries.

courtesy of www.mrsprindables.com


courtesy of www.olivergoodstuff.com

That's about all the news I have right now. Talk to you later!

Two new jobs!!

Well, yesterday I started up at my new job at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. I have to wear a red apron and serve chocolate, toffee, caramel, and marshmallows to customers as they come in. They have a GREAT location, right next to Belissios's, so all the tourists pass by. Most of the people I am working with are high school students, so I feel too old and overqualified, but they don't know that. So far I've tried fudge, many truffles, peanut butter cups, jelly sticks, chocolate covered potato chips (eew!), and avalanche bark, which was awesome. It's a mix of white chocolate and peanut butter and then there are rice krispies, mashmallows, nuts, and chocolate chips. Very yummy! I have a 30% discount there, so I'll be taking requests for Christmas presents in December. For mom, they have chocolate covered cherries, for Bridget they have tons of flavors of fudge, and for everyone else, I have no idea. But of course Mom and Bridget don't have to have those choices. they can have anything they want.

I also went in to the Suites to talk with the general manager and I'm going in tomorrow to fill out paperwork and then I work my first shift on Sunday. I'm hoping I will like that job because it pays more. I'm guessing I'll have to deal with a lot more angry or unsatisfied customers at the hotel. No one gets real mad with chocolate.

Neil is also working two jobs. He's not too happy with the mailroom job right now. Hopefully it will get better for him. If not, I'm sure that's the one he'll drop when he goes back to school. He's working over 70 hours this week. He came back at 4:15 this morning and so I was awake for an hour or so in the middle of the night.

In other news, Neil asked for a blender on Freecycle the other day and a lady wrote us back saying she had one she never used (like 3 times or so), so we are going to pick that up! Freecycle is awesome! We got a blender for free! He wanted to make healthy smoothies.

I'll also try and post my pictures of the sunflower wall hanging...my quilting job was awful, but that was my first one, so I can't expect much.

First Entry

Hey everyone! This is my new blog. My former blog can be found here. I'll keep everyone up-to-date with new wedding ideas, my quilting adventures, and living in Duluth, MN.