Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bears/Packers!!!

So the Bears and Packers are playing on Sunday for the honor of going to the Super Bowl and there's a great buzz going on around the city. Tickets for the game are starting at around 5x face value, which I have to say, made me stop and think albeit briefly. The game is at 2:00 which means we can show up at 11:30 or so and have a great day of it. Not sure yet what kind of food I'll be cooking up...but it's gotta be good for such a huge game.

It'll be interesting to see who shows up, but regardless we'll have fun. LL is in town so she'll be joining me this time for sure along with Benny Baseball and Andy "The Sausage King" or just Sausage for short. Sausage was at a bachelor party in Michigan last weekend so he couldn't make it. There was a question in my mind for a brief period of time about whether someone who would go to a bachelor party instead of a playoff game was worthy of ticket, but Sausage is a good guy.

Wedding planning is moving full steam ahead....if it were an 1800's steam locomotive. We're struggling with location and date, the two biggest things really so it's not that bad to be struggling with them. Part of the problem is my attendee list drops from over 100 to probably less than 30 if we do a destination wedding. LL's guest list is mostly family, so they will probably go anywhere. My list is mostly friends and it's just harder to commit the time and coin to go see a friend get married. Completely understandable. In the end, as long as LL and I are happy and have a happy event, that's all that matters. There's just a big part of each of us that just want to have everyone have a great time and that's a really tough chore to accomplish.

3 comments:

terri said...

I will most likely skip the game and if I do any television viewing... it'll be chick flicks! :-)

For your sake, I'll hope for a Bears win.

Having done the whole wedding thing, I always say that if I did it again, I'd just do a private ceremony. But I guess if you've not already had the big celebration, it's something you want to experience. I think I was just left with a feeling that it was all over too quickly.

KatieC773 said...

"In the end, as long as LL and I are happy and have a happy event, that's all that matters. "
YES - this is all that matters and your families will be super happy for you no matter what! Whatever you plan - it will be wonderful, just like the two of you. I promise :) Good luck!

alexis said...

I agree with terri - the day goes so quickly, a smaller group is sometimes nice because you have a better chance of actually getting to talk to everyone. Big weddings you spend most of the time just trying to say hi to all your guests.