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March 11th, Wedding Eve

Thursday, the day of my dentist appointment, packing again, rehearsal, and rehearsal dinner.

My teeth are perfect, the only thing messed up about my mouth area are my ridiculously large tonsils.  I do enjoy the comment my dentist makes though when he finally checks my teeth for about 10 seconds after they're being done cleaning.  After my teeth got cleaned I headed off to Hy-Vee and Wal-Mart where I picked up food and a ton of contact solution to take back to London with me.  Then back to my house where I enjoyed my delicious La Juanita's burrito Joe brought me and finished packing.  What is it with me having to unpack and repack all in a day's time.  Not good.  My mom arrived home and her and Gretchen got some Taco John's, then we headed to Uncle Nancy's for something to drink and then off to pick up Rachel.  We planned to meet dad in Des Moines in the afternoon, for the rehearsal.  Rachel was finishing up getting papers done, so Gretchen and I decided to head to her room and hang out there for a bit.  After some time we were finally headed off to Des Moines.  We didn't have enough time to go to the hotel and change so we headed straight to the Botanical Center, where we were early.  No worries, that is a good thing and we looked through the gift shop.  Everyone started trickling in, pretty much haven't seen most of the people in the wedding party in a long time.  Anyway, we finally started and it didn't take too long.  The bridal party stood in their 'designated' areas, while Cherri talked to Matt and Amy about what they were going to do.  We practiced the walk in and walk outs and then ended up standing around for awhile, so we took some pictures.  We finally left to our hotel room to get ready for the rehearsal dinner. 
Dinner was at the Iowa Machine Shed, good ol' Iowa 'home' cooking.  It was great to be home and see everyone, especially the family I usually see once a year.  I enjoyed meeting some of Amy's family too, they all seemed like great people.  For dinner we had mashed potatoes, fried chicken and ham.  Also, cole slaw and cottage cheese.  I stuck with the chicken, ham, and potatoes.  Delicious!  I wish I could have eaten more, but well worth it.  My dad did a great job of picking out the food.  We also had the groom's cake, Amy ordered a baseball cake, with the St. Louis Cardinals logo and Pujol's signature on it, pretty awesome. 
Shortly after we headed back to our hotel room, where my parents headed up to a relatives place and the girls and I watched some telly, also I tried to stay awake while showing Joe my 431 Scotland pictures.  It didn't go over too well.  Yay for starting to fall asleep at 10! 
Friday is the big day!  I'm very excited to see what comes of it :D

Cheers