Bachelorette Partay

 Well, it wasn't really a party.  More of a one day trip.  Me and my friends drove down to Austin, TX for a friends Bachelorette.  It was just four of us, but I think that's what made it so much fun.  The drive to Austin was just loads of singing and dancing and yelling at 6 in the morning.

The first place we went to see was THE CAPITAL.  We parked out front on meter parking for an hour and ran to the building.  We took loads of pictures.  And even climbed the gates - we got in trouble for that one.  But hey -  we got the picture! It really was very beautiful! We got a bit carried away in the building and kind of forgot that my car sat outside the capital, in front of a police station. We freaked a bit when we noticed that it had been well over and hour, and ran back to my car.  Thank anything and everything that my car was there and no tickets!

Our next stop was Mount Bonnell.  This is one of my favorite places in Austin.  You can hike up to the top and the view is gorgeous.  I love climbing up and through the trees.  I have some pictures below, but trust me when I say, the camera does the view no justice.  We sat up there and played charades for a long time. And then we hiked back down to the car.  One of my friends, of course refused to go down the trail and she came down the stairs - they have stairs there for those who don't want to hike up. The drive it self around that area is beautiful. 

We had a quick bite to eat - all of us wolfing down our food and no one really talked for those 30 minutes. I had a chicken shwarma wrap (YUM!). We went down a mile or two and just hung out at a Starbucks for the rest of the time.  Had a nice chat and just talked of random things.

It was honestly a great day.  We sang and danced back home all the way.  Actually - we ended up at one of my friends houses and hung out there for a while. 

It wasn't a typical bachelorette party, but I had a lot of fun!  Let me know some fun adventures you've been on lately.  Or share some bachelorette party stories for us here. 

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

 

Holiday Lunch

'tis the season to be JOLLY *FA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA LA LA*

Where am I being this Jolly?  At my work Holiday Lunch.  Okay - that is a lie.  I am not all that Jolly, but it was still fun. We had our Holiday Lunch on Tuesday for a couple of hours during lunch time and then we were free to go home and enjoy.

My Company went ahead and kept it at a beautiful ballroom of a nearby hotel.  Once we got in, we received a raffle ticket for one of the bigger prizes. *Naturally, I did not win*. After getting some punch, we were seated in the nicely decorated ballroom.  Had an introduction speech and were told to dig in by our beloved CEO.  We all dug in and enjoyed a three course meal.  We had some bread and butter, very delicious pumpkin soup with breading on top and iced tea, a lovely mozzarella stuffed tortilla with rice or steak for the main meal (depending on what you want) and lastly dessert with coffee.  And with that came conversation with the people we were sitting around.  In these events, they like for us to mingle and get to know new people.  So there I sat, me and my anti-social self, sitting next to some random people.  I sent a quick prayer up to God to save me and smiled politely at everyone at the table.   Thankfully, I was spotted by a girl who sits in the cubicle next to me in the office and she joined me at the table.  I let her do most of the talking smiling and nodding here and there.  I added some input on some things.  Mostly, I ate my food.

Once we finished our grand meal (It all looked very grand).  Came the entertainment and the prizes.  We had the directors of two parts of the company come and host the event.  They were really good.  They were making puns and and jokes left and right.  I quite enjoyed their hosting.  We were then greeted by the holiday committee, that put time and effort in getting the entertainment together for the lunch.  They performed a riveting recital of 'twas the night before Christmas (Actually to be honest, it was really funny and very exaggerated, kudos to the performers!  They did a great job in adding a humorous twist to it!).  Once they completed that, the hosts came back up to give away a few prizes *Didn't win any of these either*.

Once again the performers came up and performed a dance to show diversity in our company by performing a few different styles, genres, and language songs.  It was nicely done and seemed like they put a lot of effort into it.   After that, the hosts were back up with other prizes *nope - no winnings for me*

The entertainers were back up with a dance group (I'm sorry, I forgot what the dance group name was)  They were were good, dancing and signing and getting everyone in the holiday spirit! The hosts were back up with more prizes *once again - i didn't win*  They also did a quick trivia game, that was to be done with the table mates *didn't win that either*

And we were then dismissed to go home and enjoy the rest of the day.

It was a very nice holiday lunch.  I really enjoyed myself.  The entertainment was good, the food was good, and the whole atmosphere itself was great.

Thank you for reading.  Please share you Holiday Party stories or please leave a link below to your blog.  I would love to check it out.  Thank you!


PS. I have no idea, why I only took the below pics.  And not of the actual food.  I think once the food came I was just too interested in eating to take pics.  I'm sorry about that. 

my view

ignore my work phone

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