shakin' & quakin' in Parkfield

heading to another wedding!
...in the earthquake capital of the world!

and unconventional guest book

seeing old friends

and dancing the night away with new friends

here we are being "sea winches"??? with Lucinda...and we weren't even intoxicated!

The dance floor....enough said

oh yeah! we were the last ones on the dance floor!

Linda laughing!

a blurry dance moment

setting up a tent in the dark in dresses

the first dance

amy & don

monica & signey

paige & I

jenny & the beautiful bride

mom & I

linda, rachel & I... heading out into the 108' afternoon

It's been an interesting week filled with lots of email debates and strange tensions that are a part of what it means to be real friends with people I think. It was a blessing this week because my work has been extremely boring so banging out long argumentivite emails allowed the blood to remain pumping to my brain. Still, it sometimes felt a little too intense and serious, even for me. Yesterday was a total shift to fun and distraction. I went to a wedding for my friends Taylor and Dominique. They had it in Parkfield (a little town in the middle of nowhere, best known for being right on the San Andres Fault line) which is about 45 minutes away. It had kind of a country/vintage feel. The theme was "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (yes, like the song) complete with hard rock candy in the champagne glasses, a pink vintage popcorn maker, gumball machines, and a "ciggarette tree." Anyone who wanted to was free to camp out there because the party went all night long. Rachel and my parents came but they went back home for the night. Linda and I stayed and camped. We had a great time including being champions in our own personal challenge to be the last people on the dance floor (yes we were shaking our booties till close to 2am). It was so fun to be with Linda, make new friends, see some old friends, and just be away for a bit. I'm a little dirty (nope I haven't showered yet), a little smelly (boy has it been hot!), a little tired ("how can people with hang overs get up so dang early??" I wanted to yell to our loud camping neighbors at 8am), and a little sore from all the dancing/camping but yet I feel refreshed!