**thanks Sandi, I didn’t realize that this wasn’t published!!**

Well it is Thursday and I haven’t updated for almost a week. I had posted about the first day of the Mystery Wedding and then nothing afterwards. It was busy, great but also tiring. I almost need a vacation from the vacation! We arrived in Jasper on Friday night as I had mentioned earlier. And, as you can see, our family really is close and loves each other a lot.

The rooms were great. Some were cabins others were houses with multiple rooms. My mom stayed in the house where the Queen stayed! Saturday was the wedding, Emily and Padraig were already married, it was more of a celebration ceremony. We had thought that we would all go back to our rooms and relax, how wrong I was. The family (my aunts and a few cousins) stayed in the bar until 6 pm. Yes, 4 hours of merry drinking with the whole dinner to follow. I left the dinner at 11 pm and some were still going very hard at the partying. Sunday most of the guests left and the family stuck around. We had a great fire out by one of the little lakes on the property - roasting marshmallows, making smores and drinking bailey’s and hot chocolate. Monday was the ride home and I was exhausted.

On the knitting front, I had started the Mystery Drops Sweater on Friday, adapting this Drops pattern to be knit from the neck down. While I didn’t finish it by Monday, I only had 1.5 sleeves left to do. I finished it last night. It is now blocking. The yarn is Rowanspun Chunky in Fern. The only thing about this yarn is that it takes FOREVER to dry.

Then of course there is the need for the next project. I picked Bloom from Rowan 36. Part of my Rowan project and am doing some stashbusting at the same time by using Rowan Felted Tweed DK in Crush. That is TWO projects on a month that I am using stash yarn. I feel rather proud of myself in a weird way.