Day 16 - a huge advancement!

Saturday was a great day! We took one of my weekend agenda items and kicked it in the face!

We finally bought our granite breakfast bar! Woo-hoo!!!! We went to a few places and ended up making the purchase at Merrimack Stone Industries in Merrimack, NH. We found a piece of stone that we liked called Peacock Green. We were then able to go outside and find it in a remnant. A remnant is a fantastic thing if you're looking for doing a small surface in granite. It's basically a leftover piece that was cut from a larger order. It's waaaay cheaper than cutting from a full sized slab of stone. So we were fortunate and found what we liked at a good price! Merrimack Stone Industries was great - I liked that they had all of the full slabs out to see. Their "showroom" is not like you would picture a showroom to be. It was not showing different counter tops already cut. It was literally giant slabs of granite and stone all over a huge warehouse space. I liked it because you got to see the actual stone you were getting - because they're all a little different. For example - the one in the picture on the left... ours has a lot more black than that. (At a glance you may think it's black.) There are strains of the green, and strains that look teal, and some that are brown - but it's dark and looks black.

So... I'm super excited! They're coming to do the template on the 29th, and we'll schedule an installation after that. Great news, great day!

In the evening we went to my Jared and Katie's and had Katie's homemade mac & cheese, salad, and apple crisp - followed by playing Mario Kart on Wii. Fun night!