A Wedding!

Hey! So I'm starting to realize what happens when I take a month to update my blog. I still keep doing new activities!

But I just made an outline, so we should be good. ;)

I got back from the North trip late on Thursday (the 13th) night. Somehow I thought it's would be a good idea to go to school the next day. As it turns out, that was false. Going to school the day after a weeklong, sleepless Rotary trip is NEVER a good idea. haha. But alas, I went. And it was the lucky day to have an hour long mass. and after that, some practice testing for the PSU (ACT like test). I almost fell asleep. But it was nice to see my friends again. I had missed them.

The next order of business is the wedding! During my first week in the house, they made sure I didn't have anything for the 15th of March. Because that was the day of my aunt's (my dad's sister) wedding. On Friday I went into town iwth Jessica to go dress shopping! After a little bit of looking, we found this black and white dress for me. Jessica ended up using one of the ones she had at home.

On Saturday, we all had our hair done at the salon. Then at 6 or so, we headed off to the event center.

We got there and talked to the other guests and then the ceremony started. It was outside and super pretty. Not too many people, just family and friends. The ceremony was really short and I thought, "huh that's it?" But it turns out that that was just the official government stuff. Signing the documents and things. then we got on to the church part of it. It was a nice ceremony.

We congratulated the bride and groom and took a picture.

Then we socialized and ate appetizers. They kept offering me this juice that only had "a little bit!" of alcohol. I politely decline. ;)

After that, we went into the reception hall and sat down at our assigned tables.

Mine consisted of my host parents, Jessica, Juanjo, an older couple, and a 14 year old kid.

Juanjo, Jessica, my mom Carmen, and I:

We watched a slideshow of the bride and groom and then we were served our dinner. It was really good food and by the end I was stuffed.

The salad:

Without much of a break, it was time to dance! My parents danced together, Jessica and Jauanjo, and the other couple. that conveniently left me and the other kid (the only other teenager there) to dance together. But, he refused to. so we sat there in awkward silence until, after 10 long minutes, he finally gave in. So that was awkward. But I wasn't going to sit there until 2 in the morning without dancing. It wasn't slow dancing, but it was something to be done with pairs.

So we danced for a bit, then sat down. Through the night, I danced iwth my host dad, and friens of the family (meaning older guys that were free and asked me.). There were also two little girls there (ages 3 and 5). I danced a lot with them too. Being silly with them made me miss my nieces and newphews a lot. I'm excited to have them close again. At different times, we took breaks and did different things. The garter, cutting the cake,

the bouquet toss. They rounded up all the unmarried people and claimed me as the queen of the singles (reina de las solteras). haha. Whatever that means. ;) I didn't cathch the bouquet, but that's probably a good thing. I'm just little!

Towards the end, they handed out party decorations (hats, ties, glasses, and necklaces). That was fun.

Jessica and Juanjo:

 My lovely sister:

Jessica, my parents and I:

 The three year old girl I danced with :)

 At about 2:30 we headed home.

So that's it for the wedding! The following week, my family and I were invited to a friends house for a birthday party. And when we got there, the little girls from the wedding were there. Well actually i twas their house since it was their dad's birthday .The younger one was sleeping. But, Emilia (the 5 year old) was awake. And she was so, so excited! She gave me a drawing and it was so adorable. She had been asking all day when Christy would come. I sat down and was talking with the other adults and she asked me to go and play at the park. And so we did. All of the adults said to me "Christy! You really don't have to." But I genuinely wanted to. Playing games with little kids is one of the things I've missed the most this year. After the park we went upstairs and played with dolls. Then we ate dinner, had cake, and went home. It was a nice night. :)