Well, nearly 3 weeks after our wedding, I have decided to finally blog about the whole experience. Maybe I should start with the 2+ years of engagement and all of the wedding planning that went along with that, but I will choose to forget that chaos. Instead, I will blog about our wedding weekend, starting with our wonderful drive down to Southern California.
After class until 9 pm Wednesday night, Kevin picked me up. Of course me being me, everything was already boxed up and organized by importance an
d how accessible it needed to be in the car. Kevin, being the wonderful person he is, let me go to sleep while he packed the car.
I woke up Thursday morning to find the living room and dining room void of boxes and our little car packed to the brim with way too many boxes. Kevin somehow fit it all in the car. We packed our final few items that morning and set off on our journey at about 8:30 am.
Driving down to So Cal.....sometimes I worry we have too much fun together :-)
The drive down to L.A. is a drive we have done many times, but this time was extra special. We got lucky with an easy drive down to SLO. Made it there in time for lunch. We had planned to eat at the Chinese Buffet where we ate on our 1 month anniversary, but I had looked it up on yelp and found out it had closed. So we reverted back to our standard procedure of Firestone. We had a lovely lunch eating delicious food, and in no time we were back on the road.
After another few hours, we made our standard bathroom stop at my parents house and then at about 4 pm we headed out again to get to the hotel. After what L.A. drivers call normal traffic, and what I call a nightmare, we finally made it to the Hilton. We had a littl
e trouble and should have followed the GPS versus the signs on the road, got a little lost, but made it there anyways.
We parked in the underground parking and checked in. We returned to the car with one of those fancy cart things and piled on our luggage and the suitcase full of candy (didn't want it to melt). After dropping off the welcome bags at check-in, we headed up to our hotel room.
The door to our suite.
Because we had a block of rooms we knew we were getting a room upgrade, but we didn't quite know what to expect. We got to the 14th floor (out of 15) and headed down the hallway. Our room was at the end of the hallway....with a name on the door. Yes, our hotel room had a name. I thought only celebrities stayed in rooms like those. The best was yet to come. We opened up the door and saw the huge room. It was a wide open suite with a lovely decor. We were quite excited and then we headed out the balcony. I had read on line that a lot of rooms have a shared balcony and so that is what I expected, or a little juliet balcony. We opened the sliding door and saw some pool lounging chairs and then turned the corner and saw a dining table for a lot of people. This whole balcony was our, and in fact, it was bigger than the hotel room itself.
Part of Our Hotel Room, can't see the dining table since that is where I am taking the photo from
Our Crazy Huge Balcony - I believe there were enough seats for 11, but space for way more
After trying to control our excitement and shock about the room, we put our luggage in the walk-in closet and returned the bell-boy cart thing downstairs. It was time to head out to dinner with Annie, Bob, Jan, Paul, David and Ruth. We made it to Baja Fresh just a little bit later than expected but it was still great to see everyone. Once they found out why we were there ("rehearsal dinner") they gave us free chips, it was a nice gesture.
After a lovely, casual dinner at Baja, we headed over to Baskin Robbins with Kevin's parents to pick out our wedding cake. We found two choices that had mint cake.....our choices were either scary balloons or a colorful paint swishes. We went for the not scary one. Kevin tried to be funny and say that we were last minute picking up a wedding cake, and I of course didn't get it and told the lady what was actually happening. I really didn't mean to ruin Kevin's joke. We paid for the cake and headed to the church.
Yes, this is from the wedding, but you can see our awesome ice cream cake with the painty swipes on it.
That night we were taking down the choir risers. There were bunches of people there, so I ended up sitting and talking with Ruth while everyone else did all the work. It was a good deal if I do say so myself.
So now, after a crazy busy day, we headed back to our amazing hotel room to relax. Kevin's parents came with us to see the room and Libby met up with us as well. When we got back to the hotel we had a lovely tray from room service on the table. It was a fruit and cheese tray with crackers. We all enjoyed bits of it while we sat on the balcony taking in the view. It was a great way to start off what would surely be an exciting weekend.
Sitting on the balcony enjoying the yummy food :-)
After a crazy busy day, we could only hope that the rest of the weekend would run so smoothly.
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