This past weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Brady, TX to witness my friend Kendall's wedding. Allow me to break down the weekend for you...
-Julie arrives at my house to be my travel buddy for the weekend. We leave Abilene and head to Brady.
-Arrive at the Bible camp (wedding site) in Brady and "check" into our cabin. 12 beds lined up on two walls...we had our choice of beds since it was just Kendall, Julie and I who stayed in the girls cabin.
-Change clothes and head to the rehearsal.
-Play bride during the rehearsal since some people have superstitions that its bad luck for the bride to walk down the aisle before her wedding day. Apparently some people say that the person who pretends to be the bride is the next one to get married...yikes!
-Head to rehearsal dinner. Listen to embarrassing stories about Kendall's husband, listen to a great band, watch a grand total of 8 people dance, leave the rehearsal dinner at approx. 11pm.
-Cruise the great town of Brady looking for an open fast food restaurant. Stop at McDonald's and ask the two workers who are on their smoke break if McDonald's was still open. Of course it wasn't. However, they informed us that the Town & Country gas station was still open and they have great burritos.
-Head to Town & Country for snacks. Apparently everyone else in Brady had the same idea...wait in line to check out for approx. 15 minutes. Everyone could tell Julie and I were not from Brady. I wonder how they could tell.
-Go back to the cabin, get into our pajamas, eat our snacks, watch a few episodes of The Office on Julie's computer, go to sleep.
-Breakfast Friday morning at Burrito Express with Kendall and Julie.
-Head to Brownwood to drop my stuff off at our motel for Friday night, visit family, hang out with Mel and Michael.
-Drop my luggage off at America's Best Value Inn. The title does not say it all.
-Stop by the Brownwood mall, eat lunch, see a movie (read further for a review), change clothes, head to wedding w/Rachel, Mel, Michael, Jennifer and Lucas.
-Arrive back at the camp. Kendall gets married, nice ceremony, lots of mosquitoes.
-Rachel and I head to the reception tent to cut cake. Grooms cake begins to melt in the heat so I have to cut fast. Chocolate cake all over my hands.
-Bride/Groom leave, pack up Julie's luggage, head back to Brownwood for the night at our fine motel.
-Order pizza, watch tv, sleep.
-Head back to Abilene Saturday. Come home to an 85 degree smelly house. My air conditioner and refrigerator broke in the same weekend. Not a good smell.
-Clean house, sweat to death, call landlord.
That's basically the weekend in a nutshell.
Here are a few pictures...
Now, in case you were thinking about seeing the movie Knocked Up, I would caution you to think twice. The movie really, for the most part, isn't that bad. Until the end of the movie. Let me just give you a heads-up and say that if you don't want to see every part of a woman who is in the middle of child birth, don't go see this movie. Basically, if you don't want a repeat of the 5th grade sex ed. video where you have to watch a real birth, skip this movie. It was intense and I definitely gagged!
Have a great week everyone!
4 comments:
Typically when a sentence lists several items/tasks/events that are listed in a fashion of separating each by commas and continuing on with the list, each item/task/event shares a similar level of importance/magnitude.
Having said that, I reflect back on one of my favorite lines...
"Bride/Groom leave, pack up Julie's luggage, head back to Brownwood for the night at our fine motel."
I like how the event of packing up Julie's luggage was obviously as big of a task as traveling to a whole different city, or as big as a couple leaving on the biggest day of their lives together! HA!
Now that's some luggage! ;)
On another note...
Were the REST of the people watching the movie as disgusted by the birthing part, or was that just because the thought of giving birth (or yet alone having a CHILD), is the scariest thing you can possibly think about!?!? HA! ;)
no, the rest of us who watched it were just as grossed out! i do NOT recommend the movie, either! it's nasty! and they use the f-word every other time they say something! stupid, stupid movie!
First of all, out off all of the pictures, you pic THAT one? Nice.
Also, yes that part in the movie was horrible
Mel...
...your tongue in that picture kinda looks like it's got a mind of it's own. Almost like some untamed beast or something! ;)
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