and i just read the accidental tourist
just got home from philadelphia! mom and i went to my cousin Rachel's wedding (the daughter of my Mom's brother).
anyhow, it was hot as crap. no air conditioning in the cathedral. also the power went out the morning of the wedding and they spent all day fixing it. came back just in time. oh and then it rained two hours before it started, during the time they should've been taking outdoor pictures.
the reception was awesome...they had it in an ice skating rink, except there was no ice and i wish there had been! wasn't enclosed so we were still hot. oh and all the decorations they strung along the ceiling fell down a few hours before the wedding. cables holding everything up decided to snap.
it was really dark so my unlce andy gave speeches with his ski light on, the kind that's attached to a head band...funnytimes.
i "danced" for at least 2 hours straight and was dripping in sweat. at least i can say i exercised this week. the groom was bolivian so he had all his crazy bolivian family there...made it a lot of fun. they had us doin all sorts of dances.
we left at midnight with my tired 70 year old aunt, my drunk mom, and my sweaty black feet (screw shoes). haha.
on friday night we were heading home from the rehearsal dinner and i got pulled over in our cherry red ford rental car. this was bad for two reasons. i wasn't on the contract as a driver and i had been drinking wine and alcoholic punch (although i definitely wasn't even tipsy). had to drive cause my mom had more to drink than i. turns out the stupid ass ford didn't have rear lights that came on automatically. we figured out how to turn them on and he let me go. yay for not going to jail.
what should have been a 2.5 hour trip home yesterday quickly turned into 24 hours. our flight was delayed 3 hours and then there was bad weather so we had to sit on the runway for another 45 minutes. flight was good, got in around 9:30, headed straight for the potties. got on the van to take us to our car when my mom suddenly remembered she had left her keys in the bathroom. we're very blond travelers. anyhow, we made the van guy stop and let us off and then headed back to the potty. the keys, of course, were no longer there. took all of 10 minutes for someone to take them. started asking around if anyone had seen them. the cleaning lady, the security people, rental car people next door to potty, 2 separate lost and founds. nothing. by this point it was 11 pm and my mom had to be back at the airport by 5 am to work.
her car key, condo key (the only copy she has), work keys, etc were on this key chain she lost so we didn't know what to do. instead of waking up my dad or making brian drive down to the airport at that hour we decided to just get a hotel. of course most of the hotels were booked cause some sort of something was going on in atlanta as usual. found a nice ass room at the sheraton with a king sized bed that cost way too much. but we sure enjoyed it. i said hey, we finally got to stay at a hotel on our trip! so much for trying to save money by staying at my aunt's. anyhow, my mom left for work at 4:30 without her uniform (which was locked up in her condo) and her manager found out what happened, told her to take the day off cause they were over-staffed today anyway, and then she came back to the hotel where we slept til 10:00. Headed back to the airport, ate some breakfast, and checked lost and found again. the keys were finally there and had been turned in at 5:30. i assume somebody handed them to a security person and they put them in their pocket til the end of their shift.
so, i didn't go to work and i feel bad about that. i have my whole life to work though. taking random trips where things go retarded is much more fun.
there were freakin babies EVERYWHERE in PA. i got to hold a 3 day old baby girl (which, when i told brian this over the phone he thought i said i had been holding a 300 pound old lady or something to that extent...oh our hearing). anyhow she was so cute, although her name is jassinda or something and nobody really likes it. but then there was another little 3 month old baby boy named Pason who was soooo cute and chubs. i want a baby for maybe a few hours. then i'd like to give it back. oh and there were 4 month old baby girl twins from bolivia who never ever made a peep. no crying ever. i don't know what was up with that but i want kids like them.
i have just been bitten by midas and my arm has swollen up. guess he's glad i'm home.
oh and i totally just went to post this and somehow closed the page. thank goodness for saved drafts. no more losing things!
anyhow, it was hot as crap. no air conditioning in the cathedral. also the power went out the morning of the wedding and they spent all day fixing it. came back just in time. oh and then it rained two hours before it started, during the time they should've been taking outdoor pictures.
the reception was awesome...they had it in an ice skating rink, except there was no ice and i wish there had been! wasn't enclosed so we were still hot. oh and all the decorations they strung along the ceiling fell down a few hours before the wedding. cables holding everything up decided to snap.
it was really dark so my unlce andy gave speeches with his ski light on, the kind that's attached to a head band...funnytimes.
i "danced" for at least 2 hours straight and was dripping in sweat. at least i can say i exercised this week. the groom was bolivian so he had all his crazy bolivian family there...made it a lot of fun. they had us doin all sorts of dances.
we left at midnight with my tired 70 year old aunt, my drunk mom, and my sweaty black feet (screw shoes). haha.
on friday night we were heading home from the rehearsal dinner and i got pulled over in our cherry red ford rental car. this was bad for two reasons. i wasn't on the contract as a driver and i had been drinking wine and alcoholic punch (although i definitely wasn't even tipsy). had to drive cause my mom had more to drink than i. turns out the stupid ass ford didn't have rear lights that came on automatically. we figured out how to turn them on and he let me go. yay for not going to jail.
what should have been a 2.5 hour trip home yesterday quickly turned into 24 hours. our flight was delayed 3 hours and then there was bad weather so we had to sit on the runway for another 45 minutes. flight was good, got in around 9:30, headed straight for the potties. got on the van to take us to our car when my mom suddenly remembered she had left her keys in the bathroom. we're very blond travelers. anyhow, we made the van guy stop and let us off and then headed back to the potty. the keys, of course, were no longer there. took all of 10 minutes for someone to take them. started asking around if anyone had seen them. the cleaning lady, the security people, rental car people next door to potty, 2 separate lost and founds. nothing. by this point it was 11 pm and my mom had to be back at the airport by 5 am to work.
her car key, condo key (the only copy she has), work keys, etc were on this key chain she lost so we didn't know what to do. instead of waking up my dad or making brian drive down to the airport at that hour we decided to just get a hotel. of course most of the hotels were booked cause some sort of something was going on in atlanta as usual. found a nice ass room at the sheraton with a king sized bed that cost way too much. but we sure enjoyed it. i said hey, we finally got to stay at a hotel on our trip! so much for trying to save money by staying at my aunt's. anyhow, my mom left for work at 4:30 without her uniform (which was locked up in her condo) and her manager found out what happened, told her to take the day off cause they were over-staffed today anyway, and then she came back to the hotel where we slept til 10:00. Headed back to the airport, ate some breakfast, and checked lost and found again. the keys were finally there and had been turned in at 5:30. i assume somebody handed them to a security person and they put them in their pocket til the end of their shift.
so, i didn't go to work and i feel bad about that. i have my whole life to work though. taking random trips where things go retarded is much more fun.
there were freakin babies EVERYWHERE in PA. i got to hold a 3 day old baby girl (which, when i told brian this over the phone he thought i said i had been holding a 300 pound old lady or something to that extent...oh our hearing). anyhow she was so cute, although her name is jassinda or something and nobody really likes it. but then there was another little 3 month old baby boy named Pason who was soooo cute and chubs. i want a baby for maybe a few hours. then i'd like to give it back. oh and there were 4 month old baby girl twins from bolivia who never ever made a peep. no crying ever. i don't know what was up with that but i want kids like them.
i have just been bitten by midas and my arm has swollen up. guess he's glad i'm home.
oh and i totally just went to post this and somehow closed the page. thank goodness for saved drafts. no more losing things!