Strange situations

Last weekend we went to a wedding in Park Rapids. The wedding itself was held in Itasca State Park and it was a beautiful and thankfully short outdoor wedding. We then went to the reception afterwards which is where things started to get weird. The bride and groom spent hardly any time at their own wedding and decided to go bar hopping instead. I've never been to a wedding where there was no bride or groom, but whatever. Another odd thing is that they had no real wedding cake, not even a little symbolic one for the bride and groom to cut. This was only strange because in every other aspect this was a traditional wedding. They also didn't dance their dance until after the music had been playing for some time and didn't dance to a whole song, but rushed off the dance floor partway through. I don't know if it was because the bride doesn't like to dance or doesn't like attention because she did the same thing for the father-daughter dance. The music for the first hour or so was obviously picked by the old people who were the dj's and it was mostly 50's ballads and waltz type things. Not much variety at all until after the wedding party started to request songs after they returned. Don't get me wrong, I did have fun at the wedding, but it was so different than any wedding I've ever been to. Also there was this rent-a-cop who was bossing the wedding party around and just generally being a bitch. I mean she closed the bar down about half an hour early and told this guy that he had to down his drink or dump it when he was just holding on to it for his wife until she got back in from smoking. She also tried to kick out half of the wedding party because they were drinking near the dance floor. I guess last year this same woman was harrassing the bride at another wedding, one of the bridemaids this year. Anyway after the wedding was over we were offered a place to crash at this very nice couple's house, friends of my boyfriend. I also got my very first ride in a jeep and it was kind of fun. When we got there we were so tired we went to sleep almost immediately and brought our shoes upstairs with us. The next morning we each could only find one of our shoes. We looked all over, but couldn't find the other ones anywhere. Finally we went downstairs to see what the hell was up and saw our shoes down with the very destructive dog. Needless to say my sandal was shredded and his was just a little chewed on. I couldn't believe it. First of all neither of us can figure out how they got down there. Neither of us wore our shoes downstairs and even if we had we each had completely different shoes so we would have noticed if we were wearing one of each. Also why would we have left them down there? No one else had come upstairs or even into the house during the night and even if so, why would they take one each of our shoes and thrown them to the dog? Neither of us sleepwalk. The door was shut completely when we went upstairs and even if it hadn't been, why would the dog have grabbed one of each of our shoes considering they were in different parts of the floor? Also how would the dog have shut the door back on itself? And how would we have not noticed he was up there? We have no clue and that is kind of freaky. Anyway, yeah, after that strangeness, we got a lift back to our car. I was supposed to meet up with my best friend, but didn't want to drop by while she was at work so I tried using the cellphone that is supposed to work nationwide, even in the desert-or so it's commercial leads you to believe, but it hadn't been working at all in Park Rapids. Okay, we were kind of in the boonies, but not that far into it. It's a decent-sized town. The sucky thing about a plan with no roaming is that it just searches and you can't call anyone, not even for mondo extra money, not even in an emergency-well maybe then, but that's it. You just get nothing. So we stopped by a gas station so I could call and after waiting like 20 minutes for this old lady to finish talking on a pay phone about how great trac phones are I was given the opportunity to dial. Except that it didn't work, the phone company didn't recognize my friends number any way I dialed it(with and without area code and 1). I then looked at the phone and since it said 50 cents local calls, I thought well maybe it doesn't work from here. So we tried another one that said 50 cents nationwide and yet again it didn't work. I was so creeped out and just wanted to get the hell out of that freaky town so we left. I called my friend when I got home and found out it wouldn't have worked for me to meet up with her then anyway.