My brother

If you haven't noticed, my brother has been helping edit the map on the right and has embedded some videos for me after I couldn't figure out how. So those lovely notes that are written about my brother...I'm sure you can figure out who wrote them.

I will upload the rest of the wedding as well as our arrival in Maryland as soon as I can!

Getting ready for the wedding (1/24/09)

We spent the whole day together hanging out, having fun and getting our hair and make up done for the wedding.

Here we are in the limo on the way to The Breakers
Me, Lindsay and Danielle in the bridal room

Here's a video of Danielle having fun before hair and make up starts. We were having a good time!! (Have I mentioned how awesome my brother is?)

Aaron had this outfit made for Danielle and gave it to her for the wedding day. The leaf with their names on it was their logo throughout the wedding.

Danielle's beautiful gown

Her mother's handkerchief sewn into her dress

The beautiful bride

Off to see her groom for the first time

A quick food break in between pictures

Danielle's nephew Zach in his coordinating outfit with her brother Noah.

The groom with his groomsmen overlooking the water

The bride and groom with her parents

Danielle and her dad...how sweet!

The Ketubah signing

To see the rest of the "getting ready" pictures, click here

Danielle's rehearsal and rehearsal dinner (1/23/09)

We all headed over to The Breakers for the rehearsal on Friday afternoon. Here is a picture of the view from the ceremony site and a picture of the happy bride and groom!

Here is a video of Danielle rehearsaing. She's such a character. My brother knows how to embed the videos on the blog but I couldn't figure out how, but he is so cool, so super cool, the coolest guy I know.

The wedding festivites begin! (1/22/09)

On Thursday we all met at the Marriott in Delray Beach (where everyone is staying) and Danielle drove ten of us to a nail salon in Boca to get our nails done. After that we drove back to Delray Beach and had a wonderful lunch by the beach.

Steph (Danielle's sister) and me in the back of the van on the way to get our nails done
Steph, me, Lindsay and Stacy (the bridesmaids) getting our pedicures

Danielle getting her nails done

Amy (mother of the bride) keeping an eye on her grandson while trying to catch some rays!

Lindsay and me at lunch

Lindsay, Danielle and me at lunch. Can you tell who just moved from Los Angeles and can't deal with weather less than 60 degrees!

Justin's Haircut and our visit with Dana and Seth

After we left Orlando we arrived in Pompano Beach to stay with Justin's grandparents for a few days. Then it's off to the wedding festivities. We finally were able to relax with Justin's grandparents and for one night we went to visit our friends Seth and Dana in Ft. Lauderdale. Seth had told Justin about this great place to get a haircut and a shave, called ManKind, where you also get free alcohol at the bar in the barber shop. Justin had been talking about going there since he decided to grow out his hair. Here is a picture of Justin before his haircut:

I had to sit outside with Sergeant while Justin got his haircut and shave. Here is a shot of him through the window!
And here is Justin afer the haircut and shave (I think I might secretly like the before picture better)!

Hanging out with Dana and Seth for the night

Disney World (1/19/09)

We went to Disney World on Martin Luther King Day. It was the first time I had been there since I was 12 years old. We went to Epcot and the Animal Kingdom and we were there from 10 AM to 10 PM. It was a lot of fun but I was exhausted!! We had a great dinner at the Nemo under the sea restaurant before going to see the daily fireworks show. Here are a bunch of pictures from our day.

We dropped Lee's dog Misha off at the Kennel at Epcot
Us with Lee, Renee and their friend Mike right when we got inside the park
There is a place where you can taste Coke products from all over the world. I don't remember them having this when I went 12 years ago.

Already leaving Epcot before we did anything! Off to Animal Kingdom

Getting ready to get on the safari tour

Justin and Mike playing the bongo drums

A quick ice cream break on our way to the next ride

Getting ready to go on the Everest roller coaster (not sure if that's what it was called but it was a big snowy mountain at Animal Kingdom)

Back at Epcot and now getting on every ride quickly because all of the kiddies have gone home!

Beers around the World Showcase. First stop, Canada...eh!

Justin in the English pub

The girl made a clover in Lee's Guiness

Mike, Justin and Lee in the English Pub

Justin after the Nemo ride that we did at 8:55 PM right before the park closed

Epcot fireworks

To see all of the pictures from our Orlando visit, click here.

Our first day in Orlando (1/18/09)

We were lucky enough to stay with Justin's friend Lee and his fiance Renee at their brand new house in Orlando. Lee is a pilot and sometimes would pass through LA when he was working but we've never been able to spend this much quality time with him. We arrived around dinner on Saturday night and Sunday was our first full day with them. They live in this fabulous community and there is even a huge dog park down the street with a beach for the dogs. Here are some pictures of us walking to and playing in the dog park.

Justin walking with Sergeant and Lee walking with Misha.

Sergeant and Misha playing in the dog park
Sergeant playing in the water

After we got back from the dog park, we decided to have a BBQ and watch football. I told Justin to make guacamole...the avocados in Florida are VERY different than the Haas avacados in California...

It's not really as big as Justin's head but they were the biggest avocados we've ever seen.

Lee and Renee