Mini road trip to Alabama the Beautiful (Birmingham)

This past weekend was spent in Birmingham because my bride-to-be friend Jessica was having a Bridal shower on Saturday afternoon. So seeing her was awesome (obviously), but I also got to see my twin (seriously people who don't know us think we are twins, or at the least sisters--and the funny thing being that I actually have a twin..brother) Katelyn and stay with her, which was so needed because we had some MAJOR catching up to do.

So here's a run down on my weekend:
-Friday night Katelyn and I met Jessica and Sims (a good friend of Jessica's--she's super fly) at this new pizza place in Bham called Slice--it was delicious, and highly recommended. Afterward we went to a whiskey bar (which is a bar that sells whiskey?!?) and met up with Jessica's fiance (Ashley) who has been spending like every waking moment of his life ( I exaggerate) studying for the bar exam he takes in about a week.

     Jessica warned me to go easy on the questions I had already complied for him while watching the           Casey Anthony trial because he is uber tired of all things related to law and studying for the bar exam. As my questions were more related to the trial-- process in general-- (and even if I had specific questions regarding the case Ashely would have not one clue what I was talking about because he didn't have time to follow the trial---I wish I could have said the same, now that it's over I miss it...but I digress, so..). I did get a chance to talk to Ashely about "beyond a reasonable doubt"and what he said made a lot of sense, but I wouldn't do it justice trying to explain it to you, so I will try and work on that for a later blog.

-The highlight of Friday night was meeting (that's probably not the best word considering that could imply that introductions were given, a better phrasing would be "my encounter") with this girl named Louise (not sure of the spelling). Oh Em Gee exclamation point (Ashely George:) she was by far one of the top five funniest people I have ever met. She was telling us about a couple she is friends with and her thoughts on when they would be getting engaged. I didn't even know the couple she was talking about, but because she was so animated and crazy and out there (in a good way) it made everything she said so entertaining:)

-Saturday morning Katelyn and I went to this breakfast place called Over Easy--it was delicious! Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, so I am always in search of a good breakfast place (I am so sad the Flying Biscuit is gone)
-Jessica's bridal shower was Saturday afternoon. And my favorite thing about her shower was her presents; she got some really cute stuff!! The theme for the shower was monogram, so most of her presents had her (almost) new initials on them. Here is an example of my favorite gift she got (except hers says Mrs. Wright)

How cute!! You can find it (and others like it) on this website www.etsy.com

-After the shower I went back to Katelyn's and was informed that her friend (Lanier) had texted her and said that she needed to be ready by 8:30 with going out clothes and that she needed to get some mixers. This is all Lanier would tell Katelyn, Mary Frances, and Stephanie (who were at Katelyn's when I got back from the shower). So we were all left to wonder what Lanier was planning and just figured we would go pregame at someone's house and then go down town to the bars. Well, we were wrong. At 8:30 Lanier showed up with some Auburn boys and this is what was waiting outside

yup, a limo:)

and we were informed that we had the limo for the next 2 hours and then the driver was going to drop us off downtown at the bars. Um excuse me, what?! I was like "um, Katelyn is this how you normally spend your Saturday nights?" And she responds with "duh" Haha right. The limo driver just drives around Bham while we all drink and listen to music in the back. At one point Lanier even has the driver go to this point on top of a hill where you can see all of downtown Bham at night (super cool view) and has the driver take a group photo shot like we were back at prom. It was a great night, and for someone who is never spontaneous (me) it was even that much better!

Hope this weekend trumps last weekend:)

over and out,

kristen