The End of an Era

Casey Bowen is getting married!  The biggest partyer of us all in college, "Big Bird" who always worked hard to gather her flock for a night out, always saying something ridiculous catching the attention and earning the laughs of her "PAYple" is now a grown up lawyer about to marry a lawyer.  What?!  Are we really almost 5 years removed from college??  

We had a great girls trip in Amelia Island this past weekend for Casey's bachelorette party!  Casey had her best friends from growing up and from college, her law school roommate, and her soon-to-be sister in law there - it made for a great group of girls and I love to see friends from all aspects of someone's life joining together for a special occasion.  

We stayed on the bay right in downtown so all of the restaurants and bars were walking distance which was great!  We went straight to the beach when we arrived late Friday afternoon, and Friday night we had a great dinner at 29 South Eats.  We started the day off on Saturday with a poolside brunch, complete with "fun" shaped cupcakes, cakes, and cookies, and then headed to the beach.  The beach was nice but a little overcast so we left mid-afternoon which left us with time to walk around the town, hang out in the hotel room, and spend way too long getting ready :)  We had an amazing dinner that night at Brett's Waterway and ended the weekend with a fun night out!

Now on to the fun stuff...a few memories/things I took away from the weekend:

• Endless amounts of 6-inch high heels are pretty fun to try on.  Thank you Lauren Lantz.
• Victoria Secret bags, grocery bags, and 12-pack beer boxes make great umbrellas
• Watching your friends practice the Bernie and rocking the dance better than anyone in a YouTube video is pretty entertaining
• Don't underestimate my flip cup capabilities, Casey Bowen!  I just might beat everyone in the room, complete with Eye of the Tiger playing in the background for the final face off...
• Oddi makes a great DJ and I still have "We Are Young" stuck in my head
• Going on girls trips always results in me coming back wanting to purchase something I borrowed from girls over the weekend.  This trip = clampless curling iron and Nars eye shadow
• Puffy cheetos make a great late night snack, but you may wake up with orange powder all over your bed
• Chris Foreman would surprisingly be pretty as a girl, just look at his gorgeous sister :)
• Casey is a natural cowbell player
• Lady Gaga look-a-likes do not like 12 girls taking over her boyfriend's VIP section
• Smirnoff is $10 a bottle, not $150
• You should have a party just so you can hire Lauren Lantz to decorate cookies and make cocktails for it
• Chris was a champ for answering our questions to quiz Casey, even while he was taking shots (not a gun, not liquor, but golf!), and the soon-to-be married couple know each other quite well!

Can't wait to celebrate their marriage in June!