What a week(end)!

Thursday was Shae's bachelorette party. We went to Lallapalooza's and had some food and a drink. Then we went to the Mucky Duck and the girls basically just danced. It was nice and Shae had a good time, so that's what counts.

Friday night was the Breaking Dawn book release. We sold 200 books in 30 minutes - oh yeah! It was good. I was at the registration table a lot, which was perfectly fine with me, but that meant I didn't see any of the party. Like I said, it was fine with me! LoL I got home around 2 pm and started reading the book (even though I had the wedding that same day). I finally fell asleep around 6:20am and got about 460 pages read in that timespan. I've read a few more pages since then, but the book (I promise no spoilers!) has left me a bit disgruntled for various reasons so I'm not feeling the "need" and "rush" to finish the book like Deathly Hallows.

Shae and Adam had a LOVELY wedding. The ceremony was less than 30 minutes long,
which was nice. LoL Adam's father is a pastor, so he officiated the ceremony. We loved seeing the family resemblance of the
Mitchell men and the mothers! Wow! The bridesmaids had lovely black
dresses, which surprised me because her colors were a shade of pink.
The dresses were functional for other events, though, so that's gotta
be nice for them. Shae looked positively beautiful! I loved her dress.
It has a sweetheart neckline with a strap that attaches to make it a
halter (though it could have been done as a strapless). It's an A-line
dress with lace and sequins sewn onto the sides of the dress, bodice,
and the strap for the halter. She had a short train (not decorated at
all). The dress was perfect for her.

Adam started crying when
she walked down the aisle and Shae started to cry while saying her
vows. The funny part was right when the pastor (Adam's father) started
speaking, the ring bearer dropped one of the rings! So we hear this
"tink, tink, tink" and the boy scrambles to get the ring. We're all
muffling our laughter so eventually Adam's father makes a joke and we
just all start laughing. Adam had to be prompted a few times on what to
do too, it was cute. They both looked so happy and radiant!

For
their favors, they had a candy bar! They had little boxes with "Shae
and Adam Mitchell August 2, 2008" on them and they had 9 different
candies you could fill the box up with. It totally rocked my world. LoL

Today I had the aquarium (or I guess Sunday), which was the first time I've been there in a month! It went well, but it was SO crowded! This weekend we had a sailboat race in the Bay and Spirit West Coast also, so we had some crowds from that. It was nice to be back, though.

With that...I need to get this stupid external HD to mount on my laptop so I can back-up my laptop before I LEAVE! It mounted the first time, but got hung up on a file so it "froze." Now it won't mount...I have the most difficulties getting the stupid thing to mount, it's nuts. Anyway, my plane departs from Monterey a few minutes after 10am for LAX. I go from LAX to ORD. I should arrive at ORD around 7:10pm (local time). I think (and hope) I've packed everything! I will post about Terminus and post pictures over the week (if I get my act together - LoL).