This past weekend was the girls' weekend out for Erik's family members. We had two bridal showers in one weekend, one for Fay (Erik's cousin's fiancee) on Saturday and one for me on Sunday. Originally our bridal showers were planned for the same day within one hour of each other so I changed mine to Sunday to give all of us a momentary break.
Hoa, Li-Li, Lien, Kate, and I drove down to Irvine together for Fay's shower. It rained the whole day so it took us awhile to get there. While passing Santa Ana, we decided that we would have dinner in Little Saigon on our way back. The shower was in full swing when we arrived and we were the last ones to eat while everyone else began playing the games. Then Fay opened her numerous gifts. She received many lingeries and few items that were on her registry. Her friends were really young since Fay is still finishing off her last year in college herself. After helping to clean up, our menagerie went off to the South Coast Plaza to settle our stomachs before heading back up to Santa Ana for dinner. Having rained all day, the mall was packed with a crowd of people as if it were the day before Christmas. We soon got tired after hitting only three stores and decided we were ready for dinner. Lien took us to this restaurant called Quan Hy on Bolsa. I tried this appetizer that had shrimp flakes on top of a chilled rice pudding in tiny plates that were delicious. Kate ate thirteen of those appetizers as her dinner. Afterwards, we walked across the street to a dessert store and bought three different kinds of dessert. Then we drove to Lee's Sandwiches for other varieties of dessert. That's women for ya.
The next day was my bridal shower hosted by Jesga and Susan. I went early with Susan. Half of the people there were Erik's family members whom I had seen the day before. They were one of the first ones to arrive and filled up the stamping room, stamping the recipes they brought and making thank you cards for me to mail out later. They were very creative for first timer stampers. It was great seeing some friends whom I hadn't seen in awhile. I couldn't help but notice the many diamond rings that were present with all the recent marriages we've had in the past year. We were definitely an older crowd than the day before. We played three games. One was where everyone was given a laundry pin with purple bows on it and everytime someone said the words "Lauren", "Erik", "bride", or "wedding", someone else took away their laundry pin. Hoa was exceptionally keen with this game and won. Another game was having people answer questions about me after watching me carry a tray of jewelry. It was funny because everyone paid more attention to the jewelry tray than me and could not remember what I was wearing. For the last game, Susan pre-videotaped Erik answering some questions and I had to answer the same questions to see if our answers were the same. Each time I answered the question differently someone got a prize. If I answered the question the same, I would receive a Hershey's Kiss to exchange later with Erik. I enjoyed the games a lot more than I had imagined and received many great gifts. It helped too that Jesga has a cute Lhasa Apso, Roughy, who shared the day's attention with me.
Hoa, Li-Li, Lien, Kate, and I drove down to Irvine together for Fay's shower. It rained the whole day so it took us awhile to get there. While passing Santa Ana, we decided that we would have dinner in Little Saigon on our way back. The shower was in full swing when we arrived and we were the last ones to eat while everyone else began playing the games. Then Fay opened her numerous gifts. She received many lingeries and few items that were on her registry. Her friends were really young since Fay is still finishing off her last year in college herself. After helping to clean up, our menagerie went off to the South Coast Plaza to settle our stomachs before heading back up to Santa Ana for dinner. Having rained all day, the mall was packed with a crowd of people as if it were the day before Christmas. We soon got tired after hitting only three stores and decided we were ready for dinner. Lien took us to this restaurant called Quan Hy on Bolsa. I tried this appetizer that had shrimp flakes on top of a chilled rice pudding in tiny plates that were delicious. Kate ate thirteen of those appetizers as her dinner. Afterwards, we walked across the street to a dessert store and bought three different kinds of dessert. Then we drove to Lee's Sandwiches for other varieties of dessert. That's women for ya.
The next day was my bridal shower hosted by Jesga and Susan. I went early with Susan. Half of the people there were Erik's family members whom I had seen the day before. They were one of the first ones to arrive and filled up the stamping room, stamping the recipes they brought and making thank you cards for me to mail out later. They were very creative for first timer stampers. It was great seeing some friends whom I hadn't seen in awhile. I couldn't help but notice the many diamond rings that were present with all the recent marriages we've had in the past year. We were definitely an older crowd than the day before. We played three games. One was where everyone was given a laundry pin with purple bows on it and everytime someone said the words "Lauren", "Erik", "bride", or "wedding", someone else took away their laundry pin. Hoa was exceptionally keen with this game and won. Another game was having people answer questions about me after watching me carry a tray of jewelry. It was funny because everyone paid more attention to the jewelry tray than me and could not remember what I was wearing. For the last game, Susan pre-videotaped Erik answering some questions and I had to answer the same questions to see if our answers were the same. Each time I answered the question differently someone got a prize. If I answered the question the same, I would receive a Hershey's Kiss to exchange later with Erik. I enjoyed the games a lot more than I had imagined and received many great gifts. It helped too that Jesga has a cute Lhasa Apso, Roughy, who shared the day's attention with me.
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