Wedding Gifts and Packing up

Day 3 in Minnesota –

We spent a fairly quiet day, starting by opening our wedding gifts and packing up the gifts and reception mementos to ship back to our place in Virginia. For the most part people gave us cash or gift cards, since they knew we’d be travelling. We did get a few nice gifts, though, including a Gorham crystal centerpiece bowl, a courtesy basket with salt, sugar, bread, sponges and a frame (to go along with a saying about always having something to eat, having sweetness and spice, etc.), and a few things from our registry.

Sweetie came over and we went to dinner that evening. First Sweetie and I exorcised some of her bad-marriage demons, and later Andrew and I went with her to exorcise and even larger bad-marriage demon — I won’t give details, but Sweetie is ready to move on, and we got rid of a few things that might have gotten in the way of that. Yay, Sweetie!