i am back in town... my first vacation is over... and it's four days until my next. yikes.. it almost seems like time is flying by so fast... and soon i'll have to find a real job. shoot. i need to move out.. for my own sanity and my parents'.

this weekend was fun.. it was good to see family again. friday.. we packed up and drove up north. we left a little late and had to fight LA traffic :( picked up joan and it was just like the old family trips to berkeley. crazy.. except we're all so much older.. but sprawling out in the back of the minivan is still a good way to nap. i read my harry potter books and slept.. mmm.. stopped in modesto friday night at joey's house, and then saturday drove over to emeryville to our hotel. chillaxed for a bit before changing for the rehearsal dinner. i drank a little (yay open bar) and ate 12 courses of food.. (oooh.. soo stuffed) and then chatted with my cousin michelle and everything else. took lots of pictures and then went back to the hotel. then watched alex & emma with michelle, joan and jeff. it was totally cute.. kate hudson is so cute and luke wilson is hot.

the next day.. got dressed and went to the wedding. there was another tiff between my mom and i (as always) it was just the same old thing... *sigh* but the wedding was way cute. i want to get married someday.. :P we took a lot more pictures..

and then ate lots of more food *yum* :P my cousin karen (the bride) did want to throw the bouquet cuz she hates that tradition, but she presented it to my grandma to honor her because she's had a really hard year, but came out to celebrate still. it was so sweet, i almost started crying.

but then they had this slide show of old pictures of my cousin, and the old pictures of her husband, ben, and then old pictures of them together. and with their guest book they had izones and you take a picture, stick it in the book and write a message! too cute... but they did all the traditional stuff, first dance, dances with parents. but when karen was dancing with her dad they played time after time.. it was so cute and so perfect. aww... i'm gushing.

more karen's wedding pix

afterwards we drove back to modesto and spent the night there. i'm sure my mom was really happy to spend time with her old friends. i woke up way late and we left modesto around 3, but it was pretty good because then we missed the traffic, got into LA around 7.. so no traffic! yay.. it took like 5.5 hours. not too bad.