The dump, our guests and tidbits

So we spent this afternoon in Marielle's attic, clearing down what turned out to be mostly empty boxes. Of course no house cleaning in Amsterdam is complete without a trip to the "recyclingperron" or dump,

which looked very familiar to me as we'd visited it just last weekend.

But it's all good - we've made lots of progress. We can probably finish the first pass on her attic tomorrow, next weekend at the latest. Then we're mostly complete except for boxing what's coming to London with her on September 21st.

In terms of guests we've now got seven confirmed, with a couple of more drop ins expected. This is without the formal invitations which, by the way, we'll be sending out in electronic form this evening.

We've upgraded the cake to reflect the additional headcount, and are now planning the reception we'll be hosting in our suite after the wedding.

For that we're reviewing menus from the hotel trying to come up with something light and sensible. We're also making iTunes playlists to cover about two hours of music. Finally, we're also setting the Macs (we're bringing two PowerBooks to Vegas with us) up to play slide shows of pictures from the wedding itself, and shots of Marielle and I on the trips we've taken together (New York, Barcelona and a few surprise destinations folks don't already know about), as well as movies of the wedding ceremony itself.