Whew, what a tiring weekend... it was fun, but I'm glad it's over. Here's a not-so-brief and probably boring recap (read bob's if you want a better version)
*got to the LA area around 2am Thurs nite... we kept ourselves awake by singing really loudly to each other over the walkie talkies (imagine JT singing "My Heart Will Go On" as loud as he can) and playing the movie quote game (which i really suck at). had to drop off bob's bro, dave, at some random gas station off 405. We probably looked a little suspicious hanging out in our cars in a gas station in the middle of the night. the gas attendant walked up to our cars, but i guess he changed his mind and turned around at the last second.
*had a decently relaxing Friday... got up early to log into work, which didn't matter, because my coworker still called me like another 15 times after i logged off. seriously, i logged in for two hours, and then 3 minutes after i log off, bob and i both get a miscall on our phones, and jt comes stumbling out of his room saying alice is trying to call me. apparently, my coworker called alice to get a hold of me since my cell phone was getting no reception. my other coworker told me that by the afternoon, after like his umpteenth call to me, she could hear him cackling to himself as he picked up the phone to call me yet again. sheesh. ;) we stayed in PV, so we headed down to what used to be kind of a beach, but is now partly covered with a clubhouse & golf course. still managed to walk around on the very rocky beach and hang out for a bit. i was really tempted to grab one of those golf carts and drive around... we even found one by itself in the middle of nowhere with a key in it.
*went to late lunch at The Loft to see Byron & others before heading to our hotel to check in & go to rehersal. got to rehersal about an hour early, where our quartet practiced only for the second time together. thankfully, we didn't mess up too much during the wedding... the music has quite a saga to it, but to make a very long story short, we didn't get the music until a week ago due to the retarded post office system. but hey, at least we did get the music. :)
*fri night, had one of the most hilarious conversations ever... amy, me, andrea, and alice were in bed and somehow the conversation led to oranges. She claims we've ruined her "world of fruit" forever. I was laughing so hard, i was crying, and my stomach was in major pain.
*sat morning, woke up at 6:45 am b/c crazy andrea and alice got up to exercise. amy and i couldn't fall back to sleep after that, so we decided to jump into eva's bed and wake her up. had breakfast with amy, eva, alice, andrea, jean & reni. ate at reni's all-time favorite restaurant, King's Hawaiian. I swear, everytime I go visit reni, we eat there. in fact, the girls who didn't go to rehersal hung out with reni fri nite, and guess where they ate... king's hawaiian. hahahaha. the church byria got married at was literally 2 blocks away from reni's house.
*went back to our hotel, got ready, and then headed back to the church for the wedding. everything went really well, and the ceremony went off without a hitch. the church's wedding coordinator was um, a little bossy, but it all went well :)
*the reception was fun, although our table was a disaster zone. for once, it wasn't me dropping and spilling everything! :) skit was hilarious - andrew ng makes a great gandalf (loved the costume), mike is byron's secret twin, and andrea really played maria up. kleenex and all. hehe. oh and of course, there was arex with his hong kong accent as the shady hong kong ring distributor.
*went to bread of life sun morning with about 1/3 of the canaan ppl who came down. went to lunch, then headed back up... for some reason, it felt like it took forever to get home. pretty funny, i was in geo's car, and we were driving along highway 5, with the other two cars behind us. all of a sudden, we ran into crystal's crv and P. Dan's minivan! hahaha too funny. they joined our caravan for a while until we all pulled over to a rest stop and they took off first. after that we hit too much traffic to catch up to them again.
*had an emergency stop at casa de fruita, because of me. thanks guys :) hey, i was thirsty, i drank a whole bottle of water... what can you say. geo, mike and i had a conversation about where else the liquid in your body could go so that i wouldn't have to pee so badly. obviously none of us were bio majors, because mike told me to go do a lot of exercise... but can you sweat out the liquid if it's already sitting in your bladder? cal engineers at our best. haha. george shared a wonderful story with us about his high school math teacher who went to mexico where it was like 120 degrees and the guy didn't have to pee for an entire week. but when he did, it was super-concentrated. that's just NASTY. anyway, thankfully we stopped, because we hit some traffic on 152. once again entertained ourselves with some singing and movie quotes (it was more like jt & mike playing the movie quotes game since the rest of us didn't know anything). JT drained all the batteries on his walkie talkie singing the entire song of "Born to Be Wild" to us. I could look behind us and see joy trying to grab the walkie talkie out of jt's hand and andrea agonizing in pain, covering her ears with her pillow as he sang. unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?), enoch & bob couldn't participate b/c their talkie totally ran out of batteries.
Thank God, we all made it back in one piece. and it was such a joy to see byron & maria get married. I think this was the first wedding I went to where I really knew both the bride & groom well, so it made it that much more special. I still remember when byron was sending me pics of some potential rings asking for suggestions. oh well, apparently i wasn't much help because he ignored all of our suggestions and went with the ring he wanted to get anyway. ;) hopefully i won't have to go to LA again until September, when we get to venture down there twice for two canaan weddings. fun. will upload pics later - unfortunately, didn't get any ceremony pics since I was behind the piano for most of the time (although because of that, I had the best view in the entire church of the wedding). That was definitely a piano-marathon for me... 11 songs, and we even repeated some of them during the prelude. But overall, I had a great time... and now it's back to the grind. until my pics are ready, you can check out everyone else's:
andrea's
arex's
geo's
jerry's
joseph's not yet uploaded but will probably be sometime.
*got to the LA area around 2am Thurs nite... we kept ourselves awake by singing really loudly to each other over the walkie talkies (imagine JT singing "My Heart Will Go On" as loud as he can) and playing the movie quote game (which i really suck at). had to drop off bob's bro, dave, at some random gas station off 405. We probably looked a little suspicious hanging out in our cars in a gas station in the middle of the night. the gas attendant walked up to our cars, but i guess he changed his mind and turned around at the last second.
*had a decently relaxing Friday... got up early to log into work, which didn't matter, because my coworker still called me like another 15 times after i logged off. seriously, i logged in for two hours, and then 3 minutes after i log off, bob and i both get a miscall on our phones, and jt comes stumbling out of his room saying alice is trying to call me. apparently, my coworker called alice to get a hold of me since my cell phone was getting no reception. my other coworker told me that by the afternoon, after like his umpteenth call to me, she could hear him cackling to himself as he picked up the phone to call me yet again. sheesh. ;) we stayed in PV, so we headed down to what used to be kind of a beach, but is now partly covered with a clubhouse & golf course. still managed to walk around on the very rocky beach and hang out for a bit. i was really tempted to grab one of those golf carts and drive around... we even found one by itself in the middle of nowhere with a key in it.
*went to late lunch at The Loft to see Byron & others before heading to our hotel to check in & go to rehersal. got to rehersal about an hour early, where our quartet practiced only for the second time together. thankfully, we didn't mess up too much during the wedding... the music has quite a saga to it, but to make a very long story short, we didn't get the music until a week ago due to the retarded post office system. but hey, at least we did get the music. :)
*fri night, had one of the most hilarious conversations ever... amy, me, andrea, and alice were in bed and somehow the conversation led to oranges. She claims we've ruined her "world of fruit" forever. I was laughing so hard, i was crying, and my stomach was in major pain.
*sat morning, woke up at 6:45 am b/c crazy andrea and alice got up to exercise. amy and i couldn't fall back to sleep after that, so we decided to jump into eva's bed and wake her up. had breakfast with amy, eva, alice, andrea, jean & reni. ate at reni's all-time favorite restaurant, King's Hawaiian. I swear, everytime I go visit reni, we eat there. in fact, the girls who didn't go to rehersal hung out with reni fri nite, and guess where they ate... king's hawaiian. hahahaha. the church byria got married at was literally 2 blocks away from reni's house.
*went back to our hotel, got ready, and then headed back to the church for the wedding. everything went really well, and the ceremony went off without a hitch. the church's wedding coordinator was um, a little bossy, but it all went well :)
*the reception was fun, although our table was a disaster zone. for once, it wasn't me dropping and spilling everything! :) skit was hilarious - andrew ng makes a great gandalf (loved the costume), mike is byron's secret twin, and andrea really played maria up. kleenex and all. hehe. oh and of course, there was arex with his hong kong accent as the shady hong kong ring distributor.
*went to bread of life sun morning with about 1/3 of the canaan ppl who came down. went to lunch, then headed back up... for some reason, it felt like it took forever to get home. pretty funny, i was in geo's car, and we were driving along highway 5, with the other two cars behind us. all of a sudden, we ran into crystal's crv and P. Dan's minivan! hahaha too funny. they joined our caravan for a while until we all pulled over to a rest stop and they took off first. after that we hit too much traffic to catch up to them again.
*had an emergency stop at casa de fruita, because of me. thanks guys :) hey, i was thirsty, i drank a whole bottle of water... what can you say. geo, mike and i had a conversation about where else the liquid in your body could go so that i wouldn't have to pee so badly. obviously none of us were bio majors, because mike told me to go do a lot of exercise... but can you sweat out the liquid if it's already sitting in your bladder? cal engineers at our best. haha. george shared a wonderful story with us about his high school math teacher who went to mexico where it was like 120 degrees and the guy didn't have to pee for an entire week. but when he did, it was super-concentrated. that's just NASTY. anyway, thankfully we stopped, because we hit some traffic on 152. once again entertained ourselves with some singing and movie quotes (it was more like jt & mike playing the movie quotes game since the rest of us didn't know anything). JT drained all the batteries on his walkie talkie singing the entire song of "Born to Be Wild" to us. I could look behind us and see joy trying to grab the walkie talkie out of jt's hand and andrea agonizing in pain, covering her ears with her pillow as he sang. unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?), enoch & bob couldn't participate b/c their talkie totally ran out of batteries.
Thank God, we all made it back in one piece. and it was such a joy to see byron & maria get married. I think this was the first wedding I went to where I really knew both the bride & groom well, so it made it that much more special. I still remember when byron was sending me pics of some potential rings asking for suggestions. oh well, apparently i wasn't much help because he ignored all of our suggestions and went with the ring he wanted to get anyway. ;) hopefully i won't have to go to LA again until September, when we get to venture down there twice for two canaan weddings. fun. will upload pics later - unfortunately, didn't get any ceremony pics since I was behind the piano for most of the time (although because of that, I had the best view in the entire church of the wedding). That was definitely a piano-marathon for me... 11 songs, and we even repeated some of them during the prelude. But overall, I had a great time... and now it's back to the grind. until my pics are ready, you can check out everyone else's:
andrea's
arex's
geo's
jerry's
joseph's not yet uploaded but will probably be sometime.
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