FinnLand: Legendary

I realize it has been a whole week since I posted, but it has been one CRAZY week. Last Thursday, Aidan and I made the drive down to IL. It was honestly the best he has ever been. He did not have one screaming fit the entire time. The first three hours I didn't hear a peep out of him, we stopped for lunch, then the last three hours he watched Sesame Street DVD's. Crossing my fingers the drive back goes as smoothly.

Friday night my high school friends came over to sit and chat. I love catching up with them and wish we could do it more than once a year (and sometimes we don't even do it that often) :(

Saturday was the big day. The day I have been planning for months. Kali's bachelorette party. It got off to a rough start when the spa called at 10am and told me that 2 of their people called in and they would only be able to take 8 of us instead of all 10. Um, not okay. I made it very clear that all 10 of us had made appointments a month and a half ago and we all needed to be fit in. It worked out in the end and everybody at least got one pampering service and some people even got two.

We checked into the hotel, then headed back to Kali's house for the party. We played games, ate snacks, and had a few cocktails. (based on how loud it was in there you would have thought we'd been drinking for hours, but really the party had just started!) Taxis picked us up at 7pm and we headed to downtown Madison for dinner at Frida's, a yummy Mexican restaurant. Apparently it's a hot place for parties because we were the 4th(!) bachelorette party there that night! We were by far the wildest (and loudest). And for some reason we were sitting in the middle of all the other parties, so we were pretty noticeable. Not that we cared. Bring on the margaritas! : )

After dinner the limo picked us up and took us on a nice tour of downtown Madison and along the lakes. The view across the water of the Capitol was amazing. Postcard perfect. Not that we cared for more than a few seconds...we quickly were back to singing at the top of our lungs. The rest of the night passed quickly as we went bar to bar, ultimately ending up at a nightclub that had a DJ upstairs and and 80's cover band playing downstairs. The finale of the night was Kali getting on stage with the band for an encore, then the entire bachelorette party joining her. It was legendary.

Due to the graphic nature of most of the photos from the night, not many can be posted on here. These are some of the tame ones. :)

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