So a couple weeks ago was my sister's wedding up in California.
http://www.myspace.com/strawberry
That is her Myspace music page.
I still can't believe that it has been 2 weeks since i went to that wedding already. A lot of things were great but a lot went wrong as well. I'm almost sure you'll understand why I haven't been writing in my blog for almost a month after you read this.
So we left on a not Friday morning, we had to rent a huge SUV to carry all 8 of us in the car. I was envious of my brother and sister in law who got to ride in a plane. the car drive was 11 hours long and miserable.
My nieces sat in the back seat with me, I was on the far left, they were sitting next to each other. The car ride was not enjoyable to say the least. We kept o having to bug my nieces to leave each other alone, there was a lot of screaming and hitting, the older one seems to be really sensitive to annoying stuff, even if her younger sister so much as poked her she would have a fit. My mom and sister (other sister) got into frequent fights about who was disciplining them right and who was not. My uncle was just quiet the whole time listening to books on tape or something like that. There was Coldplay playing in the car a lot of the time.
I thought i would go crazy. I wanted to be in China the whole 11 hours I was in that miserable car with all the tense feelings and reactions and arguments and discussions, etc. I wanted to be nowhere near everyone else. I don't think I was alone in this.
Of all things to happen in the midst of all the torment of the car drive I got a really bad bloody nose, just what i fear every time i take a long car drive, or go to a place where the air is really dry. It was hard not to panic, and to freak out, my body really wanted to. Luckily for me we got to a nearby Arby's and had lunch and I took care of it. I had toilet paper with e in the car just in case but all the stress was making it worse i think. At some point i actually got a glob of paper stuck up m nose and had to carefully blow it out without getting blood everywhere. that was very uncomfortable.
We must have been at Arby's for an hour, my mom and sister got into a few arguments about how each other were taking care of the kids actions. It was hard to get everyone back into the car, It had been 4 hours since we left at this time. I could tell everyone was already very tense and did not like being in the car for that long.
I can't remember what point it as at but sometime in the course of the car drive we made the kids move apart from each other, we put the older one up front in the middle between her mom and my uncle. We watched movies the rest of the way pretty much on my dad's laptop computer. We stopped at the gas station a few times and got treats and stuff on the way.
We go to the hotel about midnight California time. There was nothing particularly amazing about our hotel to say the least, it reminded me of an apartment complex, and not a hotel. our room was average (we had 1 room for the guys and one for the girls). each room had 2 queen sized beds, they were hard (but the pillows were good). there was a desk, and an entertainment center with cable or satellite TV. there was bathroom, I really liked the shower. We were hungry at this point so we got some hamburgers from Jack in the box, a local fast food place. I really hate hamburgers but i ate mine because i was hungry. We got to bed about 2am in the morning California time. I slept better than i thought i would, and got 8 hours of blissful sleep. We all took showers (I brought some good smelling soap). afterwards we all pulled our purple and black dresses on, whichever color we were all wearing, and left for the church. We were still all tense from the car drive and were not very eager to get back into the car even if it was just for 10 minutes. We had to pack my brother and his wife in the car this time, so people had to sit on people's laps and such.
the wedding was at a Unitarian church somewhere in Studio City. the air conditioner decided not to work for us that day, so we had to go the whole day without it it as miserable. When we got there we put up all the decorations, my sisters colors were purple, black, and silver. It took us a few hours to do so. there were 2 or 3 photographers that were snapping pictures everywhere. I hate cameras so i tried to avoid them as much as i could. My sister helped with her own decorations as well, we all had fun attempting to stick the balloons to the ceiling. We forgot to fill them up with helium , instead we accidentally filled them up ourselves it was funny when our sister reminded us of this.
My sisters dress was so pretty! it was strapless and white, it had silver stars all over it, the top of the dress had silver pretty designs on it, I absolutely loved it to death. I got to help her put it on and stuff, it fit her perfectly. Her hair was purple and had some silver and black steaks in it to go with the colors it was absolutely beautiful. She let me war her tiara the whole time we were there (I'll take pictures later of it).
billy Corgan the leader of Smashing Pumpkins was there as well, and some other famous people i cant remember.
I followed my sister around for a while than sat down in my seat in the chapel and waited for the ceremony. it was very hot in the chapel at this time due to the lack of air conditioning. there were a lot of people present. it was about 15 minutes later when the wedding started. There was music playing from both my sister and billy Corgan as we waited.
When the moment arrived i got a surge of excitement and got quite a nice view of her walking down the isle with my dad. the walkway was white, not sure what it was but it was sort of slippery, I'm gad she didn't trip. she looked so pretty walking down the isle. and even prettier when she got to the front of the chapel. they told each other their vows, and some stuff, the wedding was pretty normal, there were some funny moments, it wa cute, the reverend was really interesting, it was nothing like a normal wedding, the kind that you see on movies or TV. It had a good deal bit more humor and was less... churchy. All the rest of my family members are Mormons so this was a change for me, I'm so used to having my family members getting married in temples. I don't quite know how to describe the wedding of my sister besides that i had more humor thana normal wedding, it was interesting.
After the wedding we set up the reception, the limeade, the cake and cupcakes, the food, it was mostly finger food, the decorations, etc. the wedding reception was quite hot, actually by the time it took place it was getting cooler outside so we opened al the doors. it got better in about 2 hours later. People coversed, and kids played outside, my sister took pictures outside with her friends and family, i took a few pictures with her friends, she has interesting friends. though some of them smelled like cigarette smoke and other stuff, i didn't really care though. People just hung out and talked for hours and stuff like that, Later in the evening we cleaned up, and packed all the presents. My sister gave me some butterfly decorations, they kept on tangling up it was annoying. I gave up after a while. my feet hurt after a while, i could hardly stand walking anymore after doing so after for so long. The night wasn't hot at this point, it was rather cool, the temperature was perfect. After everyone left we went to my sisters house after cleaning up.
My sister had a male cat, i naturally had a n allergic reaction about 10 seconds after i entered the apartment. the cat also let off a smell that made it so i could not breathe, well not as good anyway. i was more than happy to leave and get my lung capacity afterwards slowly, though it took me 2 days to get it back all the way.
we went back to the hotel and went to sleep, the car drive, we just watched movies the whole way back, we did go to the beach on the way back it was really pretty. It took us forever to find parking though.
Anyway so that was our trip.
