"Songs I Should Be Embarassed About"

Yep.  The mountains killed the radio signal, so we went searching for CDs in the Carol-mobile and found a CD with those words handwritten on it.  Clearly we were super excited and put the CD straight into the player, all the while asking each other whose CD this could possibly be?! Obviously not Tim's (Carol's husband). Maybe Elizabeth's, or even Carol's. The first song is some inappropriate rap number that Ashley and I immediately began dancing to (while we SAT in traffic with the car in PARK may I mention...).  We cracked up and agreed that the title of the CD would make sense if indeed it belonged to Carol.  The next song was actually the song that Cliff (as played by the adorable Jesse Bradford) writes for Torrance (as played by Kirsten Dunst) in the 2000 classic film Bring It On. This is NOT a CD that ANYONE should be embarassed by! Other selections include such artists as Destiny's Child, S Club 7, BBMak, 'N Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and Bowling For Soup.  As none of the members of the Hawkins family were responding to our texts, we decided the disc must belong to Stuart, because who else could be embarassed by such wonderful songs from the 90s and early 2000's?  We decided we had to amend the title of the CD so it accurately reflected the music held within and others would not be misled as we were.

Other highlights from the first day of the trip include a car fire (don't worry, the firemen put it out, and it wasn't us, we saw it on the side of the road) and almost running out of gas (this was us, but it was Aunt Denise's fault for making Kevin drive her car that was already on empty).  We passed a professional ostrich farm but someone wouldn't allow it as a stop. I rationalized this by telling myself that they probably only allowed honest-to-goodness ostrich farmers onto the property anyway. Oh, and Ashley managed to spread her forgetfulness of leaving her nailpolish at the nail salon to Ohio. We do have pretty pink toesies now though.

When we got to my aunt's house, we hung out with my cousins Ryan and Nicki until the entire family was home and we all went out to celebrate Kevin's 22nd birthday. Red Robin...yummm. We came home and enjoyed some wine and frozen margaritas, Molly made it safely into town, and now the girls are enjoying some Jude Law and Robert Downey, Jr. in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The boys are out playing basketball during half time of the game.  If you are as clueless as me, you might ask, "What game?" and one of the boys would say "Game 2" as if that were the most obvious thing in the entire world.  While you cleverly smiled and nodded, you may still need more clarification and have to ask Ashley "what sport are we talking about here?" behind your hand in a very covert manner.  Unfortunately, if you were like me you would have a friend like Ashley and she would laugh loudly and rat you out to the entire table.

Tomorrow begins the wedding madness.  I am looking forward to attending without having the stress joy of being in the wedding party. Anyone want to place a guess on how many captain and diet's Ashley drinks between the rehearsal and the wedding?

Sleep well friends!
~Ali