The Search for the Perfect Dress

This past weekend, Ryan and I headed up to PA to spend some quality time with his family. Today is Ryan's Dad's birthday - Happy Birthday, Rich! We went up to PA to celebrate his birthday, but Ryan and I had our own separate agendas for the weekend. Ryan and his dad did some work around the house working to re-install cable so that if Verizon Fios ever makes it to their neighborhood, they will be ready for it. Ryan's mom and I spent some real quality time together on Saturday searching for the perfect Mother of the Groom dress. We left the house at 9:15am to go and meet Alexis for our first appointment at 10am. As soon as we got onto the highway, we quickly discovered that the cars in front of us were barely moving (if at all). Apparently, Saturday was the day that they were doing construction on a bridge about 4 miles down the highway... The left lane was closed and merging into one lane was just too hard for the people in front of us. It took us about 2 hours to get past the construction.. yes, you read that correctly, 2 HOURS - we literally went 2 miles per hour. Talk about some serious mother-in-law/daughter-in-law bonding time. At one point, I thought Linda was going to get out of the car and walk to see how far she could get before I caught up with her! Once we finally made our way past the traffic, it was too late to meet Alexis, so we headed to our 2nd appointment that was scheduled for noon. From there, we made a lot of progress and stopped at 3 more stores where Linda tried on about 12-15 dresses. We also stopped at the furniture store, had lunch and went to the wicker store to pick up the baskets that we'll be using as our "hospitality" baskets in the restrooms at the reception. Despite trying on quite a few dresses, we didn't find the "one" - there were a couple that were maybe's but we weren't quite sure about. So, the next day we headed out to our 3pm appt, this time with Alexis, where Linda found a beautiful dress. And, even though we got home and the house was a little messy, Ryan and his dad had done a good job running the cable and not cutting any holes in the wallpapered walls! All in all, a great weekend spent with the LeNoirs!