Brooke's Wedding Weekend...

So the excitement started on Thursday when we arrived in Moline, IL. Thursday night was the rehearsal dinner as well as the Bachelorette Party. I am afraid to say I have no pictures from the rehearsal dinner, just a bunch of people eating and reminiscing about Brooke and Paul. But boy do I have some good pictures from the Bachelorette Party. Really it was a low key gathering at Terri's house, Smiths, Dombeks, and friends. Started with some alcholic beverages and some panties on a string. Which led to a stripper in purple, followed by some questions answered by Paul for Brooke to guess and ended with some Bridal advice. So back to the stripper, Brooke absolutely did not want a stripper, said she would run out of the house if Tara and Nicki even thought about getting one. This led to Ed's phone ringing around noon on Thursday asking if he would be interested in making an appearance at Brooke's bachelorette party, which he agreed to. Therefore, Tara and Nicki came up with a stellar outfit for Ed to arrive in, Purple shaggy coat and hat, with some white heeled boots. Turns out he riffled through my suitcase to find some black shorts to wear underneath that rather resembled spandex on him of course. Needless to say, Eddie sweated through the purple jacket and made a grand entrance to some stripper music and embarrased Brooke but didn't make her mad. He sure was a trooper.

Friday, Eddie and I went golfing with Ed II and Uncle Chuck. Played 18 holes, first time I have played probably since one of my wedding showers last year. I took a lot of strokes, but I am proud to say I did beat my husband on one hole. Had a lot of good shots but lost track of my score really early. And needless to say, I am super sore today. You don't realize the arm muscles you use.

Friday night was the wedding, outside! Did I mention the weather was 95 and humid all weekend we were there. Good thing the wedding was short and sweet. Dinner followed the wedding inside the lodge where air conditioning was provided. After cake and toasts, dancing was started. Due to the fact the wedding was 'dry' not many Smiths made an appearance on the dance floor. The evening came to an end rather early for most, 10 pm-ish, which led to a very late night. When we all left the wedding, we changed out of our sweaty clothes and into something more comfortable.

The late night started at the Wonderwhy aka Wonder dump in Moline. Played some shuffleboard and had a few beverages, then we piled in the Pacifica courtesy of Uncle Rick and Aunt Jill and proceeded to the Stoney Creek Inn where we joined the Dombek clan and many others. Here is where more beverages were consumed, a few rounds of captain puff, and bar closure at 2am which didn't make us all leave either. Approximately 330am we ventured to Meg and Chucks and proceeded with another round of Captain Puff and finally home to bed around 4am. The wake up call for breakfast came rather quickly at 830am but we made it, Village Inn it was.

Saturday we did a lot of laying around, well at least I did, was competing with a minor hang over. Ed didn't join the men for golf, food and deydration was a bit more important. Helped with aunts with some preparing for Birthday party and Jenna and Ryan's Wedding Party, took a real nap, oh and made a trip to Whitey's (super ice cream joint), then finally about 430pm showered for the last two parties of the weekend. Because we decided to come home saturday night we made brief appearances at both Jenna and Ryan's party as well as Tara's 30th Bday party. We were on the road by about 815pm to head home, pulled in the driveway about 1130pm. Boy was it nice to sleep in our own bed. Then this morning we bought out the grocery store and picked up our spoiled son from Karen and Doug's house. He is sure exhausted today, he must have had a busy weekend too.