My friends Sienna and Aylia go to school together in California, and they are the best of friends. They've lived together this past summer in LA and they love each other soooo much. You think of one, you think of the other <3 And they decided to get "married" (just like how matt and i finally did this summer, it's more of just a fun celebration). But we decided (because we're all drama kids) to have a little ceremony and each of us would take a part. It was SO lovely. We had SUCH a great time! <3 Sienna was the bride, Aylia the Groom, I was the maid of honour and Geoff was the best man. Then we had a few bridesmaids, Eddie was our Reverend...it was great. We had x-lovers and crazy uninvited in-laws. It was so silly, but we had so much fun. The ceremony actually was really sweet, they wrote each other vows and gave each other best friend necklaces (well they already had them but they put them on each other). Geoff even made a bouquet out of newspaper (it looked so good) and Sienna threw it! Alright, onto the pictures!
Maid of Honour, Bride, Groom and Best Man <3
(Don't they look SO lovely?)
Throwing the Bouquet!
Pandemonium!
(Steph ended up getting it!)
Glowing with married bliss! :D
hehe Best man and Groom <3
Making it facebook offical ;)
Cutting the cake (well it's actually cheese).
I just think this is really funny :D
It was one of the best weddings i've been too, although i've only been to about 2, but it was so much fun.
It was great being with all these wonderful people, being silly and having a hilarious time. But also, it just reminds you how important the people you love are to you, and that sometimes it's nice to celebrate love, no matter what kind--be it friendship or romance, sometimes it's just nice to get together and celebrate it. Wow, i know that sounds cheesy, but there was a moment when each of these wonderful ladies was describing how important the other one was--and i must say i got a little teary eyed. (But are you really surprised by that?)ALRIGHT. So the next morning we woke up rather early and took the bus to BATH! It was pretty much raining and cloudy all day, but we had so much fun! First we had lunch at this little pub on a side street of Bath. Had some yummy chicken fingers ;) And then we headed off to the bath house!
Ann, Aylia and Geoff...see they could have build the Baths!
Ok, i should explain this. After you do the Bath Tour you can have a taste of the waters in their restaurant. And, it takes like warm egg water. It's terrible. Ew.
Now, the bath tour is really cool. Before you can even go outside you have like an hour or so in their huge museum learning all about the baths! We had lots of fun, and you can also do a deal where you buy your ticket to the bath houses AND the fashion museum...which is of course what we did. So we then headed (in the pouring rain) from the Bath Houses over to the fashion museum!
It's a really quick museum (like 1/2 an hour) but its cool! They have so many different outfits from all different eras! From elizabethan all the way up to now! But the best was the dressing up area. Oh yeah. It was hilarious!
Trying to be the mannequin.
Corsets! She's SO tiny!
We even got Geoff to do it!
It was just as fun as it looks!
hehe, hats! (this was in the little kid section we technically couldn't play with...but they hats were too tempting!
So the fashion museum was fun, but really quick! So we ran out into the rain again and went to the museum i had been waiting for!
JANE AUSTEN! Yay! :D It was this tiny little house, but it was so cute! They had this guy at the front door dressed up as a man from her era. It was really cute. First you go upstairs and have a little introduction to Austen, her time in Bath and basically her life. And then you go on this little tour downstairs of some costumes and books and such. It was kinda small but was really sweet. And of course i got some stuff in the gift shop--but the best part is the tea room. On the top floor they have a little tea room where you can go and have scones, cake and tea. It was FANTASTIC. Everything was so yummy, and all of us thought we were going to die we were so stuffed!
Classy (Please note, we did not have tea yet...we're just that cool.)
SO MUCH FOOD. WE ATE (practically) EVERYTHING!
Scones, cake, cucumber sandwiches, clotted cream, jam, and tea <3 SO delicious. We got what they called the Mr. Darcy (of COURSE).
Sorry, i ate everything. my bad.
So, the Jane Austen museum was lovely. Had so much fun! Sadly the guy dressed up was gone after we finished our tea break, so there is not picture with him (despite the fact we really wanted one).
And then we walked home, it was so dark (even though it was 5PM)! And we took the bus home! Bath was wonderful, and I certainly recommend you go! (It's about a 3 hour bus ride from London).
And then, Sunday, Sinead and i decided to head off to Harrods! If you don't know Harrods is a HUGE department store, kind of like Macy's in NYC. With window displays and a silly amount of christmas decorations inside. The first 1/2 we were there was "browsing only". It's so overwhelming, it has 5 floors, and each one is so decadent. But it was lots of fun. This christmas their theme is Wizard of Oz! And every room was playing christmas music. It made me want to run home and start putting up xmas decorations (THEY even played some ELLA! I was so happy)
It's huge.
We waited outside the store with a CROWD FULL of people. It was crazy!
Oh, you know, just your everyday department store...
Christmas WORLD!
Sinead <3 The toy section was like 5 rooms, it was AMAZING...they had so many different toys, it was hard not to buy everything. Especially the ignoramus stuffed animals!
Because of the wizard of oz theme, they had one room FULL of red slippers for you to try on. And i believe most of the £'s go to charity. :) Nice job Harrods.
It was overwhelming but really cool! It's just so huge, and there are so many different rooms full of EVERYTHING. From pet world, to pianos, to books and £5000 jackets! But it was lots of fun.
Alright, i'd say thats good for now. Later i'll update all about Ireland...with my lack of pictures. Sadly my camera loved ireland so much it decided to say there. But i can steal some pictures from Ann.
Again, i hope you all had a lovely thanksgiving! i can't believe i'll be home in 2 weeks. It's crazy.
Cheers, (and love)
Tierney
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