What a week!

My, it's been quite the busy week. Thursday was a 2 hour evening cruise around Lake Monona, a work event that I helped plan. It was super pretty:

And lots of fun:

Then Friday was a Mallard's Game, with other people from work to celebrate a recent project. That was very fun too, but very mosquito-y, and we ended up going home at like 10pm.

Me and a friend's fiancé:

Looking at the wrong camera:

Then on Saturday, was the bachelorette (side note: blogger doesn't recognize that as a valid word, I'm offended) party w/my co-bachelorette, M! Seriously, I still haven't recovered. Loud summed it up pretty well - the entire night was just fabulous. Drinks, (somewhat naughty) presents, a fantastic dinner, lots of wine, a limo, champagne, shotgunning, dancing, and friends giving you the most wonderful send-off into marriage that I could ever ask for. All of my pictures completely stop after dinner, because I was too busy dancing to whip out the camera.

Being sexy in the booth that M and I got to sit in at dinner:

The *fantastic* sommelier:

The two amazing ladies who were responsible for the whole evening:

On Sunday we ate brunch at Fox and Obel's Market in Chicago, and it was amazing! We shopped in the cute gourmet section of the store *after* we had eaten - and I still somehow managed to pick up $50 worth of fun food.

After I got home on Sunday, I had an hour to show D my gifts before the neighbor on the left (slightly drunkenly) showed up to announce it was time to head over the the right-side neighbors house for drinks. It was the left-side one's birthday and we had planned to go over for wine and cheese, so we did. Ended up staying until 9pm and meeting more of our neighbors and such. Pretty fun.

This week was addressing and stuffing wedding invitations, and on Tuesday I got to see my wedding gown!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!! It's soooooooooooooooo pretty, I look like a princess. Comfy-ness is not as great, but whatever, it is a fantastically ornate and floofy dress.

Yesterday was all the cooking that I haven't been able to do for over a week. About 5 power-hours of D and I in the kitchen, cooking our asses off.

Tonight, we put together the 5 foot long BRIGHT RED grill. Tomorrow, D's parents come down. His father will help him install our new garage door and his mother will help me in the garden by taking some of the flowers home with her. Gypsy will also help me with lightswitch plates and in return, dig up and take home plants - I don't want them! Sunday is the same thing - another person coming over to take flowers. Next week is catching up at work, then Friday is the 4th of July at Loud's house. Fun!