Rotary Wedding in St. Johns

August 8th my friend from high school, Brandon Rotary got married back in St.Johns and I was lucky enough to be invited to the grand festivities. These are just some pictures from the days events. Probably the most amazing thing is the fact that I actually wore a skirt (which was my sister's since I don't even own one) and I had my hair done up all fancy (which I had done at a salon since my idea of an 'up-do' is putting my hair in a ponytail).

Here we are all dressed up and ready to impress.

After the wedding we naturally had some time until the reception, so we met up with some people at the new SJ restaurant called 'The Mint'. It used to be a bank, and it was pretty cool inside because they still had all the vaults and lock boxes from when the bank was there.

The vault behind the bar stored all the liquor and the bar is made around the old lock boxes.

Me and Kate Livingston at The Mint

The reception was outdoors in this huge white tent set-up in the Rotary's back yard. Here the wedding party is arriving. I'm not sure how Brandon didn't drop Becky because I'm pretty sure he was already 3-sheets to the wind by this point.
Dad and groomsmen giving speeches.

Kate and her b/f Andy

Me and the blushing groom (well, more like bright red groom! lol)

Destiny and Tom


Brandon getting his groove on to Usher's "Yeah", while getting ready to pull off Becky's garter w/ his teeth!

Somehow the garter became giant green granny-panties instead.

The picture doesn't do it justice, but the tent was really pretty at night all lit up by Christmas lights.

Seattle Trip - June 2009

Back in June, I flew out to Seattle to visit my friend Anna for a few days. One of the activities I really wanted to do was go on a hike while I was out there. Jokingly, I told her that I wanted to hike up to snow, but really I just wanted to hike up into the mountains and see the great view. So, her and Dan (her hubby) asked some friends where there was a good day hike that we could go on. We ended up at this Mt. Baker trail which turned out to be completely amazing.

Me and a pile of moss. It's everywhere!

Here's me and our first encounter with snow on the trail.
At the summit, we reached a small lake created from the run-off from the mountains. It was amazing. I only thought weird weather occurred in Michigan, but apparently in Seattle it can be mid-June, cold, snow on the ground, and mosquitoes biting at the same time.

Here are some more highlights from our day hike:

Anna strangling me because my idea of fun is hiking up a mountain for 4 hours.

trying to see if I can get a signal up here. I wanted to check my twitter account. :)

After recovering from our hike, we spent the next couple of days doing typical Seattle touristy stuff. We went to Pike's Place, the original Starbucks, the aquarium, and Boeing.