Tonight my wife and I went out for Chineese food. Then we went to the Michigan Theater and watched Roman Holiday

So the plan for this weekend is to go up north to Nubs Nob and go skiing for the long weekend. The problem is that it has been pretty warm all week, and we aren't sure about the conditions. It looks like they have been making snow, and the weekend will have highs below freezing.

Heres hoping.

I got some pictures from the honeymoon up.
You can read more to learn all about our trip.We stayed in Ann Arbor after the wedding and drove to Petoskey the next day. We stayed at the Perry Hotel in downtown Petoskey. Our first night there was New Years Eve, so the hotel resturant was booked. Instead we went down the Noggin Room, which is a pub in the basement. There was a group of locals at the table next to us who bought us a bottle of champagne.

New Years Day we had wedding cake and leftover champagne for first breakfast and walked the few blocks to St. Francis Xavier. After mass we went to the hotel resturant and had the Sunday brunch. It was kinda expensive, but well worth it. The first table had a cheese spread, punch and shrimp cocktail. Behind that was the desert table with pies, cakes, and mousse. The next table was the hot buffet with: eggs, potatoes, eggs bennidict, chicken cordon blue, salmon, bacon, sausage, and Belgian waffles with cherry and blueberry preserves. The last table had two chefs that were doing made to order omlets and were carving ham and roast beef. Needless to say we took our time and enjoyed brunch. That evening we looked around downtown Petoskey. The shops were all closed, but we noted what we wanted to check out. For dinner we went to The City Park Grill and had soup and and appetizers.

Monday we got up and went XC-Skiing along the beach at Petoskey State Park. We had lunch at Chandler's and spent the rest of the day wandering around downtown.

Tuesday we went and got Tom new XC-Ski Poles because he broke one a few weeks and was using his backup pair. We then went to a little diner for lunch. That night for dinner we went to Latitude in Bay Harbor. To start we had thai shrimp spring rolls and a soup sampler. Tom had Fire Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Creamy Polenta, Red Wine Crimini Mushroom Sauce, Fried Sage Leaves. Bridgit had Grouper in a tomato sauce with mashed potatoes.

Before we checked out the next day we had breakfast at the H.O. Rose dining room again. We split:
Cherry Swirl French Toast “Inn Baked” cherry-cinnamon swirl bread dipped in vanilla batter, grilled golden brown; topped with “Rocky Top” cherry butter and warm Michigan maple syrup
and
Northern Michigan Omelette Sauteed Michigan morels, locally smoked whitefish and leeks in a three-egg omelette topped with swiss cheese.

So the photographer (who also happens to be my new brother-in-law) has about 600 photos up from the wedding. If you really like one go ahead and order they are dirt cheap. My father has been complaining that they are all of my wife and me.

Here they are
Here is Michael's website

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This past weekend Bridgit went on our Engaged Encounter in Jackson, MI. The retreat was pretty cool. Some of the material we had already covered in other things. The NFP Class that was supposed to happen afterwards was canceled, so we were bummed (it is all we have left to do).

If you aren't familiar with what it takes to get married The Church usually has certain prerequisites for getting married. In our Diocese (Lansing) and the Parish we are getting married in we have to do:

• be engaged for 9 months
  
• We C.A.R.E Communication Class
  
• NFP Class
  
• FOCUS Couple where we do an inventory of topics/issues
  
• Catholic Information Series

So there has been flooding in the NorthEast US and here is a clip of a reporter for the Today show. She is sitting in a canoe and as the report starts, two men walk by in ankle deep water.

So with schools starting, me starting a new job, and Bridgit moving we have finally got some pictures of the new place. Check them out.

No, I'm not making this up. September 19th is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. I hope to see everyone out with their best Pirate lingo.

So now that I have a 45 minute communte each way I have decided to listen to books on tape instead of NPR news. I am's ripping onto my iPod volumes 1 and 2 of Hemingway's complete short stories. this should be fun.