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No Wedding Gifts Please!

// June 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // life

I’ve had a few people ask me lately about what we’d like for our wedding. The simple, honest answer is: absolutely nothing. We don’t want gifts, we don’t want money, nothing. Allen and I have everything we need and we don’t want our friends & family buying stuff for us. We’d prefer to be greedy with your time by getting to visit with you whenever possible.

If you absolutely feel compelled to do something, we have selected a charity to donate to. We wanted to pick a small charity that would have positive impact on the people we love, so we chose the CT Scanner fund at the Dryden hospital where much of our family and friends live. If you want to donate (and please do not feel obligated) you can do so by going to the Dryden hospital or if you’re not in Dryden you can call Chuck Schmitt who is the Recruitment/Fundraising Coordinator at the Dryden Regional Health Services Foundation. His number is: 807-223-8808.

Thanks to everyone who asked about this. My brother Alan is sending me brochures about the CT Scanner fund if anybody wants more info. We are really looking forward to seeing our family & friends at the event (just over a week away!) and for those who can’t make it, I’ll make a trip up north later this summer to see you all.

Hope Volleyball Tournament

// June 22nd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // sports

I haven’t blogged about our volleyball tournament yet! Last weekend, Allen and I participated in the 20th Annual Hope Volleyball tournament, even though we almost weren’t allowed to play.

We had a team of seven signed-up to play but on the morning of the tournament, two people called in sick. We couldn’t get replacements on such short notice, so we went to Toronto Island with a team of five. In my regular beach volleyball league, you can play with five, so we thought it wouldn’t be an issue. However, when we got out there, we were told that our entire team wouldn’t be allowed to play because we were one person short! What?!

Fortunately that decision was overturned and they said we could play, but we’d have to default on every game. That was fine — at least we were going to get to play. So we started to practice, getting ready for our 1st game when two people approached us with a team of four who were told they couldn’t play. Long story short, we combined teams and played both teams games throughout the day, getting in double the games we would have otherwise gotten.

So, all ended up well. We played an entire day of volleyball out on beautiful Toronto Island, met some fun people (who could out-drink a school of fish) and did it all for charity. Good times.