I'm coming!

Alright you bastards, I've got tickets to the wedding and am ready to raise Cain!

I'm flying into South Bend, hopefully in time for the bachelors' party. I'm officially pandering, holding my thumb out, for a ride from the airport to wherever the festivities will be occurring. I'm flying in on Continental Flight 8737, arriving at 6:10 PM on the wednesday before the wedding. Any takers; any generous souls?

And I'm taking Chris up on his offer to fly out of O'Hare on Sunday, so I encourage as many as can to plan on staying to do something on Saturday.

On a side note, I've used Sundy's wedding to do a whole August vacation package, going to see a high school friend in Ithaca before the wedding, then after the wedding flying to Phoenix for a leisurely drive home with Cat back to South Carolina (from her summer internship). I finally get to see the two most important places in inner America: the Grand Canyon and Graceland. Long live the King.

Looking forward to it, fellas

Pat

Sundy's Last Night of Freedom!!

Hey dudes!

I just wanted to let you all know that we'll be having my bachelor's party on the Wednesday night before the wedding. I realize the timing isn't amazing, but you know I'd love for you dudes to come saki bombing before heading to South Bend's finest bars to get smashed, smoke cigars and dance with dirty townie cougars until the sun comes up. If you can get away from work/school, awesome. If not, you clearly don't support this union. Hope to see all of you there for Sundy's Last Night of Freedom!!

- Jonathan

PS - Sorry I've been so absent from the blog. I still love you guys.

Holiday Inn

I looked up all the 3 hotels where Jonathan reserved rooms, and the Holiday Inn downtown South Bend is the cheapest at $116/night. I'm assuming you guys are like me and are looking for the cheapest place.. also I would split my room with someone else, so we should figure out how we're rooming together.

About flying in, I know Chris can't take anyone from Chicago, but if you want to fly in to Indianapolis and drive up with me and Pat on Friday, let me know and I'd be willing to let a few people stay at my place Thursday night.

"Somebody's getting Married"

If anyone knows what movie the title of this post is from, I'll buy them a drink at Sundy's wedding.

Thanks to Pat for getting everyone thinking about this stuff. I for one am down with the canoe trip on Saturday. I'm planning on heading home Saturday, unless people are staying in SB for another night. People are free to stay at my place Saturday night before flights out of Chicago.

Alright, I figure I should let everyone know what my plans are in case people are relying on me for transportation to and from the airport. Unfortunately, I won't be any help to people getting to the wedding. I'm going to be up in Michigan before the wedding (Molly's family rents a lake house every year). I'll be going straight from the lake house to South Bend. I'm in the wedding, so I've got to be there early for the rehearsal and that jazz. Like I said, I'm fine with heading back to Chicago Saturday or Sunday. People are free to crash at my apartment and I can do drop offs at O'Hare (I can't drop off at O'Hare and Midway - Even without traffic they are an hour away from each other).

Let's all make sure that we get the same hotel. I haven't been on the knot site yet, but I'm sure we'll be able to find something.

Peace Out,
Chris

Alright y'all, let's make some plans...

So, I'm pretty stoked about 8/8/08! Two main questions: 1) where are we going to stay? and 2) which nights are we going to stay? Are people going to come in the night before, late Thursday? And do we just want to stay in South Bend the whole weekend, like leaving Sunday? Also, we need to find some rooms that are either a really sweet, big communal-like setup, or just something reasonably priced. I'm trying to get all this stuff setup because I'm going to do a big U.S. tour via discount airlines with the month I have off between my internship and what will perhaps be my last year of school.

Might as well give an update while I'm here: Just started my internship for the summer with a big law firm here in Columbia. It's pretty crazy how much activity there is... just keeping up with all the firm social events is wearing me out, not to mention the trying to get work done or staying long hours. But I definitely love it so far, and am still hoping to impress them enough that they give me a job after graduation. Fingers crossed. Still dating Cat, and that's going really well. She's out in Phoenix for the summer for her internship... of all places, in the finance department of the nuclear power plant out there. It'd be really if when she came back she glows in the dark. The long distance thing really isn't a challenge at all after doing this past semester abroad. Spending tons of time on the river in my free time; pretty much every weekend. Anybody interested in a canoe trip or something of the like the day after the wedding? If people are interested I could figure out the logisitics...

Sorry the post isn't any wittier... I have to see more of you guys to remember all the inside jokes. Really looking forward to both weddings this fall. Anthony and Greg: glad we have you back. Ted: thanks for the call; gread talking to you. Rowlands: how the heck are you? You going to be the next one engaged? Ax: good luck this season, I'll be keeping an eye out. Sam: let me know if you're going back to Arizona this summer and I'll try to schedule a trip out there the same weekend. Sundy: love the "the knot" website. Sorry, someone had to give you a hard time... but I will say, I've seen a lot worse. Chris: definitely need to get with you on some of the logisitics stuff. Hope the job's going well.

Later dudes!

Pat

ND Football

Thanks Ted for the reminder about the football season. I am going to submit tomorrow for Michigan - its the only game that I really have an interest in. If another game works out better for the majority here, ill just come out and enjoy the weekend. Dont have a huge desire to get in to the game itself.

For anyone who is interested, ND plays Navy in Baltimore on November 15. Im guessing Tim, Sarah, John Rowlands, Amy and myself might make it out. Baltimore is dirt cheap to fly into...

I know its greatly dependent on lottery results, but it would be helpful to know as soon as possible what weekend(s) everyone is leaning toward.

Football and Other News

Hey Guys,

Sorry I haven't been keeping the blog humming along. I don't have internet at my apartment. In fact, I don't have cable at my apartment either. I really am living the simple life since I moved out of my parent's house. I can use the internet for what I need at work and the only thing I miss about cable is the sports. With summer arriving, I figure all be outside a lot riding my bike and doing outdoor things.

Anyways, I am applying for tickets for all the games again this year. I can't go to the Purdue game because I have to work that Saturday. There are only 6 home games this year, so at most I'll be at 5. Let me know which games you guys are going to and I'll be sure to be around. I live near O'Hare so I won't be picking people up from Midway (that would a 2+ hour drive). I know Ted has been pushing getting together before Jonathan's wedding, but it would have to be cheap.

Keep on Rockin'
Chris

Football Tickets?

Yes, I know I posted this already, but since I didn't get any responses other than from Chris and Pat.. I'm asking again if we're going to try to go to a specific game this year. I'm applying for San Diego St., Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse. The applications are due on May 15th and would need to be sent in soon if anyone has one and is waiting to figure this out, but maybe that was just me. I've tried calling around to a few people, and I know Sam also wants to know if we pick any games.

Anyway, I'm about to start my last week of finals for 2nd year. Then it's on to studying for boards, and I start third year with ob/gyn on June 16th. I have time off between taking the test on June 2nd and starting on the 16th (and moving to Indy on the 6th) if we want to get anything together before Sundy's big wedding. I will have weekends off after I start rotations, but I just don't know which ones yet.

Anthony, I'm glad to hear you're back also. We've also been wondering where the wedding will be, so I'll try to talk to you sometime this week. I hope everyone else is doing well, and whether you are or not, post something to keep the blog going.

Ted