Wisconsin Adventure I: The bachelorette party

Obviously you have already seen the best picture from the bachelorette party but I thought I would share a bit more about our super fun time.

Since both Rachel and Neal had lots of friends flying in, they decided to be very modern about the whole bachelor and bachelorette party thing and send all Rachel's friends, both boys and girls, to the b-ette party and all Neals friends, both sexes, to the b-party. It was a great idea.

We started with some Mexican food on State Street which would have been a pretty tame start except Craig had made a joke about bringing a penis cake and Rachel doubted him. Of course, he was then a male who had been challenged and told me I had three days to come up with a way to get a penis cake made in another city.

Now, Rachel is a fun girl but she is also a good modest Christian girl who I thought might not be totally appreciative of a big penis cake sitting at her table in a very public restaurant. Plus, I had no idea where to get one on such short notice she we just stopped by the Pick n' Save, picked up one of those semi-decorated cakes and added our own little embellishment.

She found it quite amusing. But after all the pictures, it was covered with a napkin until the appropriate time came for the cutting and eating. We aren't vulgar people.

Now, all those embellishments that Craig wore were not really intended for him, they were for Rachel. At first she only had the banner/streamer thing (what are those called?) but then she was given a string of penis beads.

Here she is looking skeptical after we forced her to try them on for a picture. If I were into titling pictures, I would call it "I'm smiling because y'all are my friends but inside my heart, I do not like this."

But then she put on a feather boa and veil and we convinced her that you could barely see the beads with the boa on, so she kept it. Which, at least in this picture, was kind of a lie but who cares, yeah for Rachel! Sorry about the arm but she was blinking in the other one.
By this time we had also had a couple of pitchers of margaritas brought out. There were lots of flavors, some of which I actually liked. I had Craig pour me about 1/4 of a margarita at a time so I could sample all the flavors (I liked peach but not guava) but by the time I had tasted about 3/4 of a margarita I looked over, saw Craig, and realized I was now the designated driver and stopped drinking. That's okay, because alcohol is not really my thing.

And here is a picture of Eric. He is such a cutie and I think this is the only good picture I have of us at dinner that contains more than just his arm. Sorry Eric.
Now, it was a bachelorette party so we (and by we I mean, the women folk) did have to talk a little about s.e.x. It's true. The boys thought this was funny so they took a bunch of pictures of it. Here's one. See Rachel soaking in all the information - but that was a week ago when she was young and niave. Now she is old married woman. My, how quickly things change. But the night didn't end there, even though by now you readers are probably wishing it did. We went and did some karaoke. I don't really have much to say about karaoke other than it was quite amusing. So just look at the pretty pictures.
Okay, so that is the bachelorette party. All I have left to say is "I do hope Rachel doesn't kill me after reading this post."