Well, the weekend is over, and even though my fingers are VERY out of shape, I survived without the internet. And Dave survived without sportstalk radio. Though he kinda cheated when he used my phone to check on sports scores.

Anyway, the retreat was ok. I don't think I can talk much about it, so any of you people out there that might go through it will experience what I experienced. At times, I was bored out of my mind, other times, I found out a lot about me, Dave, and our relationship together that I didn't know before. All in all, it was a good weekend. Some of the sucky things were - staying in dorm room style quarters, where the beds weren't big enough to be called twins, waking up at 7am on a Saturday morning, taking a shower, and feeling the burst of frigid water after someone flushed the toilet, having access to junk food ALL the time (i gained 2 lbs) and feeling like I was in school all over again, and falling asleep during the presentations.

But it was good for me and Dave. It was a good time for us to step back from all the wedding planning and come back to US. Dave and Christine. And the reasons that we got together, and the reasons we've stayed together, and what we're envisioning our future to be. We also got to talk about our families, our values, and, of course, since this was a Catholic retreat, how we would lead our married lives as good Catholics.

During the weekend, we both realized that we had totally forgotten about our 6 year anniversary. Luckily, I was the one that brought it up, and he had thought that it was sometimes in May. I thought it was April 26th. After a heated discussion, we both realized it was April 24th, and that we had both completely missed it. We got a good laugh out of it, since this would be our last 'Day we started dating' anniversary, and we'll be switching over to the 'Wedding Anniversary'.

As much as I giggle, and drool, and joke around about other various people on this blog, Dave's my man. He's the best of them all. He knows me like not many people know me, and he loves me anyway - for all my messiness, forgetfulness, my internet obsessions, the short track activities, he understands that this is my life. He's one of the greatest people I know. He has everything a girl could want, and I remember long ago, thinking that he was too good of a guy to NOT have a girlfriend, so I tried setting him up with a bunch of different people. Little did I know that I was the one for him. I'm the luckiest girl in the world. And he's a pretty lucky bloke, too!

Really looking forward to the wedding.

Just so you know right now, I'll be bawling like a baby the whole time! Who's bringing the tissue?

Here's some pics from when we were lounging outside. There was an airport next door to retreat center (about 30 miles outside of Chicago) so there were a lot of planes flying overhead.

Posted by Yano at April 28, 2003 12:33 AM

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