PICTURES!!! :)

So I don't have any official wedding pictures, nor do I have any pictures from the lake since the camera was still packed at the farm, but I thought I'd share some of the craziness that was my weekend. Out of respect for Hannah and RJ, I'm gonna hold of posting pictures of them until they have official wedding photos out...my action shots just don't do them justice!!
In more recent news, I felt like I got absolutely nothing accomplished today, but at 5:00 I had achieved record numbers. After a three day weekend, the Fish and Wildlife Service staff returned to the Hatchery office and a broken air conditioner. Needless to say, it was a very sluggish day all the way around. I was even more thrilled than usual to hide in the nice, comfortable, cool basement all day. :)
Jo is a computer-savvy volunteer and she tried deciphering my hieroglyphics on the catalog records I've been keeping the last few days. Lucky for both of us, she was able to follow them pretty well so I can stay in the basement and try to crank out 30-40 blueprints a day while she enters all my data into the computer. I'm relieved about this because it means I can get more blueprints cataloged and somebody else can enter them into the computer even after I go back to Illinois.
Today I discovered the importance of having one person in charge of a cataloging project. I was examining a blueprint of the Hatchery Superintendent's Residence and Office in Cortland, NY and recognized it. I knew I'd seen it before. Nick, who does inventory in the basement and guards me from all sorts of horrible basement boogie men with his pencil and clipboard, laughed because I've cataloged over a hundred blueprints that all look the same so how could I be so sure I'd seen that one before. After about 10 minutes of searching, I proved myself right. Last week I had cataloged a the exact same blueprint, but rather than the typical blueprint process with white lines on Prussian blue dyed drafting paper, the one I had handled last week was hand drawn black and red ink on emulsioned linen, which is linen that has been coated in a liquid that makes the ink stick longer. In other words, I had found an original architectural drawing and the blue print that had been made from it. Randi and Jo were impressed, and that's why Jo started entering my info into the computer for me...if she's doing the entering, I can stick to being the only person doing the cataloging. Thank God for a photographic memory! :)
Did laundry after work...Gonna take care of some dishes and finish unpacking, then nestle into the couch with some num nums and a really great Louis L'Amour book recommended by my awesome bro. Enjoy the pictures!!!!!!

Too bad taking photos while driving is dangerous...I'd take more of these. Golly, I wish I was on a motorcycle!

Hannah had a lady who does hair for Renaissance fairs do hair for the bridesmaids and family of the bride. With our light blue dresses and day lily bouquets, we felt like fairies! :)

90 degrees in the shade....the bridesmaid and bride spent a lot of the time in the only thing even close to AC on the campgrounds....the mess hall's walk-in fridge!

After the wedding, me and my dear Eureka College girlies took a 'hike'. Laura, Betsy, Emily, and I found a deer path to a creek so we kicked off our shoes and walked around the campground in ankle-deep water. Probably the best part of the reception! :)

Phoebe (maid-of-honor and sister of the bride) Myself, and Emily (best friend of the bride) had homemade matching tie-die T-shirts to wear after dinner. Yup, two new amazing great friends! :)

These are from the Black Hills National Cemetery. You can't miss it as you drive east on I-90. It's the Black Hills own version of Arlington. It was the 4th of July, and I simply couldn't help stopping to pay tribute to the flags and headstones.