Thoughts

Karena's Cornell group is friends are truly amazing. It's been more than a decade since they graduated from college, and yet, they still consider themselves close enough to choose many of them as groomsmen and bridesmaids.

This weekend, two of her classmates stayed with us. After being delayed on their plane for 2 hours in New York, they landed at LAX after midnight. But somehow, whenver we hang out with them, we stay up really, really late. So, we stayed true to form and ended up talking until after 3 am.

The wedding was held in an Anglican church in Newport Beach. Remind me the next time I need to head down to Orange County, I should avoid the 5 freeway. The traffic was horrible! Anyway, the short part of the ceremony we managed to catch was very Catholic.

The banquet was held in a beautiful Hyatt hotel in Huntington Beach overlooking the water. Since it was open bar and some of these guys like to drink, we popped some Pepcids to keep from turning red. We tried a lychee martini and a mango martini (complete with real fruit instead of the olive!). Both were delicious, except they mad the lychee with a little too much vodka.

I was fortunte to be there because I took note of what songs they played since I'll be the MC and DJ for my cousin's wedding in two weeks.

Again, just to stay true to form, we hung out with the bride and groom and about 30 of their closest friends in a hotel room until almost 2 am before heading up . . . and staying up some more before sleeping around 4 am.

I'm tired.