¡Hooray! ¡España aquí venimos!

Katie and I have been doing some day dreaming lately-you know midterm season and all!

One day we were just sitting there and she said as a matter of factly-I really want to go to Spain! I peeked my head up from my books and said-Awesome I'm down!

For a few weeks we have been trying to work out the details. I just cleared it with work last week and yesterday we booked our flight!!!!!
For two weeks from May 25th-June 7th, Katie and I will be going from Lisbon, Portugal, to Lagos, Portugal, to Madrid, Spain, and lastly to Barcelona, Spain. We will be spending 3-4 days in each place and traveling by train to each spot. Barcelona was my pick and Lagos was hers. The other two we both felt were essentials!

We haven't booked our hotels yet. Katie is pretty laid back about everything so she didn't care if we stayed in hostels. But I'm the pain and told her I wanted hotels. But we found some good deals so we're super pumped!

We booked the flights yesterday and I seriously can't believe it!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!

I think we both need to learn some spanish-ha!

BRIDEZILLA-EJ STYLE!!! EJ's Wedding Dress!!
My dress!!

The bridesmaids' dresses!!

When I was in RI, EJ and I went wedding dress shopping. We had a great time, she tried on about a million dresses and bought this one!! I also played around and found the hottest Maid of Honor dress!

EJ Wedding Pt 2 is in FULL EFFECT!!

Right now EJ is "trying" to narrow down her bridal party from her 12 closest friends. Um yeah I'm serious. We are looking at 12 of her "sisters" that apparently if they are not in the bridal party EJ's world would wither away and die. To top it off Andrew only has 5 people in his party. But EJ is doing her best to come to terms and narrow this down-ha!

EJ is now obsessed with planning her bachelorette party. I told her it was my job to plan this shindig. But she has already purchased numerous books on fun bachelorette games! She has made the following demands- bride, maid of honor, and bridesmaid shirts for that night. #1 priority is going to a strip club-woohoo! Tons of embarrassing games and basically getting super drunky. So ladies SAVE THE DATE if you want to witness EJ abomination.....Friday, June 7th!!!

And to top if off.....I convinced her to get HAIR GENIE!!! Oh yeah EJ booked her already!! She is using the photog from Justin's wedding and the DJ from a family friend's wedding. And oh yes, Amy-warn Stefani that EJ is on her way!!!

Let the games begin!!!!!!

MADDIE-RAMA Tinkey Tot
Lady Luv
Modest Maddie
Mushy Maddie

Finger Funnie

Just came back from Rhode Island. I had a fabulous trip! I spent the whole time with Maddie who is getting soooo big! She is just such a mush ball and wants to cuddle every second!

And Maddie is just like her mom and talks/blabbers non-stop! Her new thing is doing rasberries!! :)

BEERS FOR QUEERS...and not the good kind

Two weekends ago, Peter invited me to go to Beer on the Pier. He told me it was this big Beerfest that was tons of fun. You can sample different kinds of beers outside on Chelsea Piers.

Now on a side note-Peter and I hadn't really seen each other for two weeks. First was his birthday weekend and then next I was studying for a huge midterm (the same one I missed for the sleepover). There were a few random phone calls in between plus the last date was pretty bad. So the momentum was kind of dwindling....

He told me that he was going to pick me up and go to the BeerFest. My first question was why the hell are you going to drive to this all you can drink Beerfest-but whateves! So he picks me up late (again!). On all our other dates Peter was rockin the black tee and jeans which were cute. But now he was wearing these awful pants and button down. It didn't even look like he showered!! I think he may have been rolling around in trash prior which was why he was late!

On our drive over, he picks up his cell and starts talking to this girl for like 10 min??! I thought it was kinda rude.

So we get there....and it is this huge brightly lit warehouse with tons of lines everywhere to try beer! I was like you have got to be kidding!! $50 bucks for this crap??!! The whole night was waiting on lines to get to the front and have them fill up a small shot taste of beer??!! This was just too much....4 hours with an unshowered pal and I didn't even have a buzz!!!

His funny jokes weren't funny and his constant goth references were stupid! It was so bizarre! We just weren't clicking! Now I know you can't judge a book by the cover but I was rockin these cute jeans with my black wrap around sweater and flashy gold vest with white "faux" rabbit fur. We looked like a magazine ad titled-"No F-ing Way!!"

My friend Aylin (the one that set me up with this dope) was there too. Which was the only good thing. I talked to her the whole time basically. I told her that I'm totally not into Peter anymore and she laughed and said I'm so sorry. I was completely ignoring him...he even asked me why I was ignoring him-oops!

The whole time I was saying how tired I am just so I can have him drop me early. But this thing was over at 10pm and the boys decided that they wanted to go to a bar to watch the Mets game. I was trying not to be mean so I said ok. Then he sat there for an hour glued to the TV. Aylin and I sat there and played the whole time.

I just couldn't take it anymore and told him I had plans with Katie so I had to go home. So he dropped me off in front of Katie's restaurant and I ran the hell out of the car!!

Katie and I proceeded to go out and have a great night of dancing and ridiculousness!! :)

So that is the end of the Peter saga!

UN-SCREW YOU

On Wednesday I went to the hospital once again for surgery! This time I was going to get one of my screws removed. The long one that goes through my fibula and tibia.

I wasn't really looking forward to it (obviously) but I was told it wasn't going to be as bad. For one I was not going to be knocked out I was just going to get local.

I was in pain for a few days and stuck on crutches. They gave me Vicodin which btw...sucks!! It did nothing for me. On the other hand...Percoset is awesome! Thank goodness I had some leftover from my last surgery!

But today I am up and walking with my fancy new 25 stiches in my leg. I am getting them removed next Thursday. So up until then I need to keep this damn ace bandage on it and can't get it wet! AKA...I need to lug that damn shower stool back into NYC so I can bathe myself-fun!!

Besides Percoset, one of the best things about being home in LI is that EJ and Maddie were here!!! EJ is having some trouble with her epilepsy so I babysat and she went to the doctors! I know its not the best reason for me to celebrate seeing Maddie but I haven't seen her in TWO MONTHS!!!

She is the best!!! She is so big and so cute!! And I think because my voice is similar to EJ's and I bear some resemblance she took a liking to me! Maddie and I just hung out all day!! Just like old times!!
And I know curse me-I forgot my camera in NYC!! But I'm seeing her soon so I will make sure to take a ton then!!

WEDDINGS R' FUN

In case some of you forgot how nicely I clean up I have attached some more pics from Justin's Wedding. I failed to mention that I had a photog-stalker at the wedding. One of my brother's friends who is a photog was trying to slow dance with this broken leg girl the entire night. I was busy partying with my cousins and taking fabulous photos so he settled for taking pictures of me from afar. Not a bad deal!! He is awesome!!

However there is bigger news other than how pretty I am.....EJ officially asked me to be Maid of Honor!!! YIIPPEE!!!!!!! I was kind of thinking she would ask me but as my mother said last night, "You never know with her." So I am super pumped!! The Best Man is Andrew's brother...a semi-cute very fun 6'5" dude. EJ tells me he is the Life of the Party! We are going to have a kick ass entrance!!

PS...My huge awful midterm is over!! It went pretty well I think.....so now I booked myself the entire weekend. If you need to reach me this weekend just call 1-800-DRUNK!!!

BACHELOR POOL

Katie and I, being huge reality TV junkies, were watching The Bachelor 2 hour premiere last night and came up with a fabulous idea!

Based on just the first episode and any extra clippings they showed us we setup a game to decide the winner.

We had to sit down and determine the Top 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, and the winner. Basically saying who is going to get voted off each week. We get a -1 if we get one wrong in the top 10, -2 for each one we get wrong in top 8 and so on until its a -6 for each one wrong in top 2.

The winner picks the place, outfit, and imposes 2 made up rules on the loser for the entire evening! I'm thinking I'm going to dress Katie up in 18 layers of clothes with flipflops and tell her she can only say Moo the whole night! Ha! I can't wait to see who wins!

Pictured above is my winner pick-Jennifer! I hope she goes all the way!!