Weekend Update: The Bachelorrette Party

It is my older sister Nicole's wedding week.
She gets married this Friday.
This thought to me is crazy.
And then I remember I'm married and find that crazy.

Either way, this is reason for celebration.

This weekend I threw my sister a bachelorette party.
It was awesome.
While the collective "you" of the internet doesn't need to know all of the details, I'll share the highlights.

We went to the beach.

The beach is probably the best way to start a bachelorette party. Get your tan on for the night!

We outfitted the bachelorrette in her hat and sash and went for some outdoor dining.

The hat was kind of a mom hat, so she felt the need to do a mom pose.

Then she got gangster on us. (PS that's a blinking sash.)

Isn't she just adorable? No wonder she's getting married!

We went back to the hotel, said goodbye to the younger sisters, and got on making tanks to go out in.

Now while it's none of your bussiness to know what the other girl's shirts said, I will tell you what mine said because it's hilarious.

At my bachelorrette party, I was given a sash.
Now I felt the need to write on the back of it, "I DO WHAT I WANT"
Apparently it was my catch phrase for the weekend.
I wore it to my rehearsal dinner. I thought it was pretty funny.

So my tanktop for going out this weekend?
It said  "I STILL do what I want."
OBVIOUSLY.

My husband laughed at this when he saw it the next day.
Marriage is awesome.

Anyway, we made t-shirts and made our way out.
Now, in Portland that weekend there was a huuuuuuuge music festival.
When I say huge I mean they shut down an entire neigborhood.
We knew the city would be out of control.
So we decided to pick one place and stay there.
We chose a place that we could go dance and be ridiculous.
Because we were a bachelorette party we skipped right ahead of the line and got in.

We danced. And danced. And danced. And had way too much fun.

They served beer in paper bags, which we thought was the coolest.

This is one of my sister's best friends from college. The look more alike then we do. Notice excitement over drinking beer out of a can and paper bag.

Then, 5 minutes before last call, the fire alarm went off.
LAMESAUCE.
I told a bouncer on the way out it was because we were too hot.

So we obviously took our party to the street.

I think after I took this I danced a little.

We took photos with our new friends. This was probably my best friend from the night. We had a heart to heart and found out we went to the same college.
 I told him I was like the Khloe Kardashian of my family because I am a giant and my sisters are shorter than me. He told me he was born in 1984.
It got real deep.

Noticed the blurred out shirts. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW AAAAHAHA!

And then we got a photo with the guy taking the photo above.
You know, to be fair.
And because he was wearing an elmo shirt.


And then, after catching a cab and making friends with a driver finding out where his kids went to school and how much he loved the city, we retired to the hotel.
But not without one more photo of course.

In case the blinking sash didn't alert you, they wanted to show you who the bride was.

Just a really good time.

And now the even more awesome time starts this weekend as my sister gets married to her college sweetheart this weekend.

Now to put those final touches on that Maid of Honor speech...