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Oh my GOD you guys, I’m so mad.  I’ve been posting every single day and I just noticed that NONE OF THE POSTS have been showing up!  I swear! 

Okay, not really.  But IN MY DEFENSE, I warned you I would be missing a few days, so.  AND!  I uploaded the pictures!  I did!  In fact, I have just spent the last 3 hours sorting through the 700 plus photos we have taken so far and putting them on Flickr.  You guys, I am SO OVER the title and description thing.  They are seriously harder to write than posts!  I hate titles!  I hate descriptions!  Therefore, mine suck!  I don’t want to hear you complain though…THREE HOURS.

So.  Camping.  It was SO FUN!  We had the worst luck getting started, with dead batteries and hot hot hot weather and forest fires and closed boat ramps and reservations only but in the end we scored a perfect campsite on a gorgeous lake and had such a great time.  Our fancy two room tent and comfy sleeping bags were so cozy that I slept better out there than I have over the last nine months in Korea.  We fished, and had campfires, and made smores and ate lots of great food.  We played cards, and swam, and caught frogs and there was hardly any bugs and none of us wanted to pack up and go home.  I never thought I…as in ME, would have such a great time camping!  I mean, the amount of dirt we had caked on us was a little gross, and we DID have a run in with the biggest, most terrifying spider EVER (FOR REALS, even John was a little freaked out by the massive giganticness of that spider) but, surprisingly, I lived through it.  Just to give you an idea, the spider was so horrifying that taking a picture of it never crossed anybody’s mind - we just wanted it dead.  Who discovered it, you ask?  Oh, that would be me!  Because who else, right?  Right.  So: The spider was hanging out under the table, and I walked right up to it…like one inch away…before I noticed it.  I froze, then pretty much ran, and the only thing I could say was oh my god over and over and over until John killed that horrible HORRIBLE monster from beyond.  It was SO BIG.  Like, the body was the size of…a golf ball.  And it had legs.  So that made it bigger.  Basically it was the biggest spider I have seen outside of a picture.  AND!  It was eating.  Ohgod it makes me shudder even now.  BLEH.  Enough of that.

Friday we headed into Sacramento for the wedding rehearsal/dinner, which was a lot of fun, and included Pyramid Hefe on tap, and Indian Casinos, and a looonnnng drive back home at one in the morning.  That sucked, because on Saturday, we had to wake up early to pick up the girls from Grandma Carole and head BACK to Sacramento for the actual wedding.  Okay, so it was an outside wedding, and the temperatures hit a record high — it was freakin hot.  Like, the acrylic heels on my bridesmaid shoes were melting on the patio hot.  Like, the wedding started at 5 pm and we were back inside by 5:10 pm because the minister and Nick and Denay did a little speed vow thing that was pretty cool - in fact, I’m pretty sure the kiss at the end was the longest part of the whole wedding.  After pictures, we headed over to the reception, where we all proceeded to bust a move on the dance floor, with a little help from the FREE WINE placed on all the tables with dinner.  Oh, and perhaps the pitchers of Hefe.  Okay, and the DJ was playing some pretty great tunes, too - a lot of disco and hardly any crap, and remember when I said that I was born to be the Dancing Queen?  Yeah.  Anyway, it was such a good time, and Nick and Denay looked wonderful, and both of thier families are so much fun, and it was so great to see all my friends. 

When I woke up this morning at 8 it was already 86 degrees outside, so on went the bathing suits, and after the gift opening we jumped in the pool for a quick swim before we headed back here.  And as soon as I got in I started on those pictures which brings us back to the beginning of this post which means my weekly summary is now complete!  Yay!

Joe and Laurel are up from Santa Cruz for the week, so we’re going to be out on the lake a lot, and then my family will be here Thursday, and then?  I go back to Korea next week….sighh.  Well, I guess the good thing is I’ll go back to more frequent posts.  Anyway, go look at the pictures, and I’ll post again….soon!

Auf Wiedersehen!!!