2004-05-02 13:46:28

So, this weekend was the long-awaited weekend of respective pre-wedding festivities for Mike and Holly. Pat left for Mike's bachelor party Thursday, before I got home from work, and he's actually not even home yet. It's one of those new-fangled four-day bachelor parties you hear about in Esquire and Playboy. Pat has checked in a couple times and I've just gotten a few details. Things started off with some wild boar hunting, and then they headed off to Montreal to...eh-hem, see the sites.

Friday night, we un-officially kicked off Holly's bachelorette party weekend by sitting on her porch, drinking wine with Melissa, Rebecca, Courtney, and of course, Holly and me. We went to Esan for dinner, drank more wine, and then most of us headed over to the ever-funny Park Bench. We followed up the evening with street meat and called it a night.

Saturday, Rebecca picked us up and we went to Mike's mom's house for Holly's bridal shower. Everything was very lovely. Holly, by the way, made out like a bandit! We chatted, ate food, drank tasty wine, and played a couple fun shower games. It was great.

After the shower, we got some coffee with extra shots of espresso, cleaned ourselves up, and headed over to Rebecca's. We had a toast to Holly, and Melissa gave her the funny bachelorette stuff she had to wear. At 8:30, the limo arrived and Holly, Debbie, Rebecca, Melissa, Courtney, and I all hopped in and headed to Tapas for dinner. Of course, dinner was tremendous. I love Tapas; I really need to go there more often.

After dinner, we headed to Tiki Bob's. That place is ridiculous to begin with, but last night, there were a bunch of kids who just got out of the prom and that brought things to an interesting level. Tiki Bob's really just seemed like one big bathroom break, and it was kind of busted anyway, so we took off fairly early and headed to Star Bar (formerly Marcella's). We all LOVED it there. It usually costs $10 to get in, but as a part of the limo service, all of our entrance fees were covered. I would still totally go back there and pay the cover though; It was so much fun. After Star Bar, we went to our final destination, Whiskey. When the mullet-headed limo driver dropped us off there, she said "Good luck." She wasn't kidding. It was jam-packed and just plain gross. It was fun though, and a good way to end a semi-debaucherous evening.

Around 2:30, the limo driver took us back to Rebecca's, where we ate two pizza and beef jerky, and posed for ridiculous pictures. I regret to say that I wasn't really taking pictures at the bars, and Melissa took hundreds of pictures, but her camera malfunctioned, and she lost all of them. We were so bummed. So, I have some stuff, but not nearly as much as I wish I had taken.

We all slept over at Rebecca's and that about brings us up to speed. Today, I've just been pining over my man and picking up the apartment. I'm sure, once back gets home and recovers, he will catch you all up on his bender.

-Fran