To.. weekends

This weekend really flew by! Dan and I made herb risotto and hung out on Friday night and dropped off the dogs at his moms house. We woke up at 6 am on Saturday to get going on our road trip to Schaumburg. We left around 6:30 and got to Schaumburg around 9:30. I was pretty impressed because for a while we were going around 40 mph because the rain was so heavy and the traffic was kind of busy. We got lucky that the traffic wasnt so bad, Amber gave us a good route to take that had the least amount of traffic and tolls! Im going to keep it for the next time we go to IKEA there. Normally we just go to Bolingbrook so it probably wont be for a while. Dan and I shopped for hours and then had lunch. I dropped him off at the hotel to take a nap and I ventured out on my own. I went to Kohls and bought my dad some Adidas Slides for Fathers Day. After that I tried to find a store that I had went to with Buffy a few months ago called Filenes Basement.. its like TJMaxx but with higher end brands. I couldnt find it anywhere! The stupid GPS made me do like 3 U-turns in like a block radius.. clearly couldnt finding it either. After like an hour, I went to IKEA which was ridiculously packed. I told my mom I would buy her a lamp and 2 lamp shades so I found an employee and somehow found an open checkout lane and was out of there in 15 minutes. I think thats a record!

Dan and I took a taxi to the wedding at the Schaumburg Golf Course, a mile from our hotel. It was really pretty outside where Amber got married. She looked beautiful when she came out and it was a very cute wedding. Im so happy for her. I cant believe shes married!!! :) I met her husband at the reception, very nice guy and you can tell he has a lot of love for her. I had a few martinis and Dan was drinking some gin and tonics so we were feeling pretty good..haha. Once we started dancing we really didnt stop. Dans a dancing machine I swear..lol. It was a lot of fun and there was soo much food! Omgosh I couldnt believe how much food there was. If my camara was working I would have taken a picture of every course haha. There were passed appetizers as well as some set out for you to help yourself. I think there were 5 or 6 different things. Then there was the soup course, followed by the salad course.. then dinner which was filet minon and chicken. After dinner we were served ice cream. Like 30 minutes later, cake was available. Then around 9:30 they had chocolate fondue with anything and everything to dip in it. I couldnt believe how much food there was. I basically ate a little bit of everything and was stuffed. All in all I would say it was a successful wedding and reception.

To change the subject.. my parents have been wanting to take another vacation with my sister at the beginning of July. I, of course, wasnt allowed to go unless I paid for me and Dan. My sister however, got it for free. Last year my sister took a friend and my parents paid for her to go with them and the friend paid their way. I said something about my mom paying for me and she was like 'no, Elizabeth only gets it for free because shes not married'. How does this make sense? It doesnt. She should reward me cuz I am married...haha JK!
Anyways I finally figured out that this didnt make sense and decided to confront her last week. Im like just because Im married doesnt mean you dont have to pay for me... You can pay for me and then I can pay for Dan to go. Basically I told her thats whats going to happen and she agreed lol. So I talked with Dan and hes not really wanting to go anywhere again but he said I could go. He cant miss a day of school either and we would be going Thursday - Sunday. So now Im deciding on whether or not its okay to go on a vacation without my husband. Im so attached to him and I dont want it to reflect badly on our marriage. However, Im going with my sister and my parents..not exactly a crazy vacation with your girlfriends or something. I see this as an opportunity to spend time with my sister which whom I rarely get to spend time with. Any married women, wish to comment?! I would love suggestions. Its really hard to turn down a quick vacation all expenses PAID to the caribbean with my family. I just wish Dan could go!!