In Illinois time to rest was an imaginary thing. There was always something to do or someone to see. The first weekend I was rushed to southern Illinois for Michelle's Bachelorette party. The night was a lot of fun, consisted of lots of drinks, crying, and Charleston. We hit up EIU for the night to party Fall 2008 style. It was awesome being back at the old stomping grounds, but it also felt so weird. The girls had a job of selling Lei's for Michelle's party, I took the cake with $20ish dollars. Turns out I am an excellent sales person.
We rented a party bus to safely get us to and from EIU which was a lot fun. I wasn’t impressed when the bus driver told us we had to pay more money for him to drive us back to Vandalia. Not cool. Not cool at all. Regardless everyone had fun and the night was a success.
We were at EIU. This was a must.
After the bus driver slammed on the breaks about 6 girls ended up on the floor. Don't worry, Michelle's neck hitting the pole broke her fall.
The following day included a ridiculously long drive home and an evening at Danielle’s house where her nieces (2 and 3) styled my hair. I wish I had pictures to share. It was awesome. It hurt like hell but I have never seen Linda laugh so hard in my life. The girls had fun and everyone had fun watching, so I was happy to take one for the team. The next day I went into Chicago to see everyone and go to musical night. I have nothing good to say about musical night, so I won’t say anything about it. It was so wonderful to get to see David, Katelyn, Jessica, Tina, and to spend more time with Danielle. We cruised around Chicago, took a picture between Marilyn Monroe’s legs, did the standard Bean pictures, hung out in the park, and had an awesome meal at a restaurant whose name I cannot remember.
David and I
Loves
First try. Excellent photography skills, Tina!
Overall, a pretty good day and I even got to sleep that night! Finally!!
The following weekend was Michelle’s wedding. The hardest part of the weekend was trying to keep Michelle calm. I think we received a C grade at this task. Not an easy task!!!! Ok, I’ll give us a B.
Who knew Maid of Honor duties included putting the garter on the bride?!
It was a beautiful wedding, tears of happiness were shed, my feet hurt like a pain I have never before experienced, and the reception was a great party.
Bridesmaids. Like the movie, but no one shit their pants.
Mr. & Mrs. Caleb Miller.
Regardless of the fun, I was pretty excited to hit the hay that night. It had been such a long busy and at times stressful day it was good to just lay down and pass out.
At the reception
The rest of the time at home was spent running around trying to see family and friends and spend time at home and relax. It was kind of strange to be “home” again and it made me realize that Oregon, IL is no longer home. I was homesick for Alaska and Ruckus and my house. It was really nice enjoying the sunshine and grass and farm smells. I almost forgot how much I miss farm smells. I enjoyed being able to drive into Chicago and take the Metra back to Elburn. It was the little things that I noticed I had been missing. So it was good to experience those things again.
I was super excited to come back to Girdwood and find everything yellow and orange and absolutely beautiful. (and new snow on the mountains.) Can't wait for winter and snowboarding!
Don’t get used to my updates being so frequent. It probably won’t happen again.
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