it's a nice day for a white wedding

this could get long so bear bare bair with me, friday i got up real early and we ended up leaving for dear old dothan at like 8. it was me, gabriel, my grandfather in one vehicle and my dad, steve(the best man), and jenzen in the other. it s 3.5 hour drive, we got caught in a little bit of the hurricane traffic but as soon as 65 split and we went west and the mobile ppl continued south it cleard up immediately. we stopped about halfway to get me and jenzen shoes to wear at the wedding...my dad's criteria for the shoe was black, not tall/thin heel, and close toed. in about 5 minutes i found an awesome pair of flat old-lady looking shoes w/a little flower on em, they were soooo cute! after i carried em around the store for 20 minutes my dad decided to tell me that he wanted me to get shoes with a heel and not so old lady looking, gee thanks dad! so after much debate (and odd but rather knowledgable advice from the best man, i swear he knew more about womens shoes than me and jenzen put together)i ended up with a pair of insanely uncomfortable high heeled dress shoes. after checking into the hotel, we went to ana(dads new wife)'s parents house to have the rehearsal which went smoothely. rehearsal dinner was back at the hotel, the food was really awesome and the toasts were really good. the best one was my adds friend carrie's(we were at her table), she got up and played the accordian(her newest hobby) and told the story of how she introduced my dad and ana. saturday i got up and went to a brunch for ana at like 10, afterwards me, jenzen, carrie, maaike(carrie's friend from the netherlands), and kathy(anas friend from skool) went and got manicures. i had a nice conversation with the guy painting my nails, he couldn't have been too much older than me. he's been doing nails for 4 years and its a family business, theyre from vietnam. he's currently going to skool in oxford learnin about planes and piloting and stuff, but he'll graduate in december. i like having conversations like that with people i dont know and probably wont ever see again. well best of luck to him(dont even know his name) and he did my nails great, lol. after the manicures we chilled back at the hotel for a while then got ready and went to the ceremony site to have pics made and whatnot. after that it was the WEDDING! it was done outside and it was so awesome! the weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold and not a cloud in the sky. nobody fell or walked the wrong way or cried to excessively. after the actual ceremony, the reception was held on the other side of the yard. there was sooooooo much food and it was all awesome. the band was beyond cheesy(but hey, thats in the occupation criteria right?). cheesy as they were, we all danced anyways(yes i did dance...sshhhh). we were also once again serenaded by carries accordian, she can literally play anything if you hum her the tune, its so awesome. ana has like the greatest family in the world, everyone is just awesome and so much fun to be around, i'm so grateful to be (legally) related to them, lol, she and my dad are very good for eachother(theyre like the happiest couple i've ever met, i swear, i just hope i can be like half as happy as them one day,lol), and i'm sure they'll be even happier in Costa Rica for the next 10 days... anyways, today things went by really slow, i didn't get home till like 9, ugh, but its ok. i wanted to go to the college fair with josh but spending time with family you dont get to see often beats that. hehe, i missed michael tremendously, and due to phone complications we didn't get to talk hardly at all but we both survived so its ok...well i'm done writing books, if i was there and you just read this whole thing i'd shake your hand.