Suit and Dress Night

Saturday was quite an enjoyable and busy day for me... It started off with a few photography consults with Derek, followed by lunch with Christina and baby Nala. It was nice to see them considering I am always down in Louisville and never get to see Christina at work. She is close to her due date, so before we know it another little baby girl will be added to the Britton family. How fun! I will be seeing Christina on Thursday, though because I am going up north to work for the day, from GE. Things are pretty busy and it'd be easier for me to work from the office where I can talk to people in person, versus trying to get ahold of them in the evenings when I'm working from home.

After lunch, Derek and I walked around Covington taking random photos - we stopped at the Madison where one of our future weddings is going to be. After that, we went to the Cincinnati Art Museum to practice some low light shooting... but we wound up just venturing around looking at the new awesome 21C exhibit at the museum. For those of you who aren't familiar with 21C, it is a modern art museum/hotel in Louisville. Very very chic and fun. If you ever get the chance, you should stop by the actual 21C in Louisville. One is supposedly coming to Cincinnati in 2012. It will be awesome! The museum part of the hotel is free to look around at... so even if you don't plan to stay at the hotel, you should still definitely check it out! :) I didn't take many photos while we were out - but Derek did. He sent some to me, so I'm going to post a few of his that he took of me... and the post a few random ones that I did take while out with him. It's always nice to spend some time taking photos and talking photography... I enjoy that time.

Saturday evening was quite an eventful night. It was Suit and Dress Night #3. Suit and Dress night is simply when our friends get together, girls wear dresses, boys wear suits, and we go to dinner and then out to the bars. Just a fun night with friends, nothing more, nothing less. All in all its a good time. We had dinner reservations for like 30 at 7:30pm at Buca di Beppo in Rookwood. Unfortunately, we weren't able to actually sit down to eat until after 9pm due to an inconsiderate party at our table before us that thought it'd be awesome to take up 3-4hours of time instead of two! What the heck! We were starving by the time we got to sit down, but luckily the manager had appetizers of garlic cheesy bread ready for us right after we sat down. Dinner was a success and a lot of fun with our friends. Aimee and Danny boy came :) Annie came :) Brew and Lauren were there :) and David and Jenn :) (Among many many others... but they are of course my favorites!)

After dinner, Alex, Aimee, Dan, and myself made a trip out to Hollywood Casino to see Amber and Deb :) They were at the casino to celebrate Amby's momma's 50th birthday! Happy Birthday to Momma Knochelman! Unfortunately, by the time we got there, they were ready to leave :(   But we did manage to snag a few group pics of the girls! I miss those ladies!

After Hollywood, Alex and I parted ways with Aimee and Dan, who claimed they were tired... psh! Oldies! Instead of heading home, Alex and I went to Covington and met up with the Suit and Dress gang at Dubbs. We spent another hour or 2 there with everyone and had a great time. It's so fun to see Alex hanging out with the boys, taking car bombs, laughing and having fun. :) He loves those people, or so he told me that night on the way home... and that makes me super happy! I only took two pics while at Dubbs... Damn!

Yesterday Annie and I went to visit our grandma who just had stomach surgery last week. She is doing exceptionally well - is in good spirits, feeling much better, etc. I am glad to see her feeling well, as she is often sick. We took baby Jazzy with us to see her. It was so cute... our grandpa got his secret stash of treats out for her as soon as we walked in the door. I think he needs a puppy... :)
This is going to be one hectic week coming up... a lot of projects/homework as well as a lot of GE work. I am excited to get it over with though because on Friday, we are having a bonfire at the cabin. First one of 2011! Should be a blast! They always are... Having spent time this weekend with some extremely awesome and important people in my life, it once again reaffirms to me how much I truly do appreciate and love my close friends and family. Without them, I'm pretty sure I'd have very little happiness. I find it exceptionally awesome to know that all of my different groups of friends can seem to get along so very well. I've done my best to introduce everyone to each other and to incorporate some events where we can all spend time together... aka bonfires :)  So I really hope that all of my friendlies come out Friday night and enjoy some time with me!

Well, now that I've flooded this little post with lots of photos... I better get back to work. Big test tomorrow evening too, so I have a lot of studying to catch up on...



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