Stockton Pre-Party...

You know that feeling you get as the roller coaster clicks up the steep slope and you know what's going to happen... it's getting higher and higher... the air starts to feel thinner and the sounds of the people below sounds so far away and your mind keeps thinking... Here it comes... it's almost here... get ready to scream until you have no voice left....

So according to theknot.com website... I have a nice 15 days left until the wedding. (click click click) The Knot has a nice checklist, and according to that, I still have 73 tasks left to go. (click click click)

Last weekend, we had a mini 'trial' run of festivities in Stockton, California, My home town. My grandma hosted a lovely luncheon to celebrate our engagement with 250 of her closest friends.


Luckily, the amount of planning needed from me for this event was minimum... we almost only had to worry about showing up. (Too bad that couldn't be the case for the wedding...) It got a little hairy when the banquet room was overflowing with people and no room to walk between the tables... but it eventually tapered off, and no one got trampled or set off any emergency exit alarms. :)


Once the lunch was over we hung out with the family the rest of the day... ate even more chinese food for dinner and then hung out in San Francisco the next morning... eating chinese food for brunch. We were pretty chinese-fooded out by that point.

15 days. (click click click) Two more weekends. (click click click click) At least one of them is a 3 day weekend... Mighty well unintentionally planned, I'd say. :)

The Batch Weekenders

Herman and I just attended our respective Bachelor and Bachelorette parties. In fact... it wasn't just a party, it was a whole weekend event! Herman and his boys zoomed off to Las Vegas, while I was just told to meet up at a specific location at a specific time... and... oh yeah, pack some sunblock!

Turns out the girls had planned a FABULOUS weekend getaway to La Jolla in San Diego. We went on a Dinner Cruise and danced the night away... stayed at the Marriott... and played at the Zoo the next day. Despite the numerous jokes about how this weekend "could" have turned out... I'm so glad they were all just jokes! :)

Sonya even surprised me the night before by claiming we were going on a nice casual dinner... and then out of the blue popped my Cousin Wendy who lives in San Jose! Not only was this her first solo flight... but she's afraid of heights!! And despite everyone's crazy summer schedules, somehow 7 girls all came out to celebrate with me... and I couldn't have asked for a better weekend!! Sonya got some hip white shades in La Jolla... Wendy had some bonding moments with a giant hippo... Claire discovered Cold Beer and Exotic Animals go well together ... Melissa brought Sexy Back to the Dance Floor... Merri almost hopped on the freeway during her morning jog... Aimie perfected her Electric Shuffle... and Niki made friends with a family of Gorillas...

Here's some highlight shots from the weekend:






You gals rock!!!

What? You thought that you'd read about Herman's weekend next? Most likely you'll have to squeeze it out of one of the Bachelor Party participants if you're really curious... :)