so, i suppose i should write about the trip...um...now?? or not? hmm....lets see...oh all right! so the night before i made sure i had everything, (i started packing a few days prior however), and attempted to go to sleep. my attempts to catch some zz's was futile however, since i was anxious about waking up early to catch the 9am flight out of my old place of work at Lehigh valley airport. mike dropped us off. we had breakfast at the upstairs cafe, (my old work). of course i took pics! ya want to see? uh, maybe later! its going to take a while to upload all the pics. so we took our flight had a layover...somewhere. probably charleston or one of those south carolina airports, ahh..charlotte! (bcuz i kept hearing a little girl saying, 'were in charlotte!?" who was sitting behind in front of me. she kept looking out the window. anyways, we finally landed in miami, which was a cool feeling bcuz i love miami (but we didnt see the actual cool inside of miami we were just at the airport then the hotel), i also love florida. we got on the shuttle, to the wrong comfort suites. it looked like a nice one but it was the wrong one so then they called the other shuttle, which was a run down looking shuttle, which took us to the more run-down comfort suites, where we met with the grandmother. we got settled into our rooms then met up with everyone else. its always fun when a bunch of us get together for a wedding or whatever, right!?? it was all of matts relatives too. we all went to the chinese restaurant next door for dinner, (we have video too). matt and lisa seemed very worn out and in a generally sour mood. maybe they got no sleep? i just remember matt sort of like, 'blah'...but anyways, we had huge dinners no one could finish. he had so much family too. our side was only my parents and me, (take out only my parents it makes sense..writing wise)...and our aunt sook and uncle bob, his side was cousins, aunts, (crazy loud ones!), you know...sisters, mothers, grandmothers, people...so after dinner i really wanted to take a cab to see miami but that wasn't on the agenda so instead we snooped around the hotel. we hung out in the gym with the kids from matts side, and matts kids stevie and adria. we just played around on the equipment we also went up to lisas room, (where my mom asked about all the wine they had in boxes...it was for family members or something? i have no clue because the wine was not used at the reception?) oh before i go on, the night before i noticed that on conan they played the 'aruba, bahamas,' song...remember when i posted that song about my cruise? and last week fox played the 'poison paradise' simpsons with the cruise ship. also, while my mom and i were shopping at the mall, looking for clothes for the cruise, a man started whistling 'cocacopana' (keep in mind take note) ..it was creepy tho. i hate when old men just start whistling, you know? yuck! ok well back to the trip...so we were all in lisas room to review the order we would all walk in when one of the aunts came in and took over and was loud mouthed etc. ha! anyways, finally we went to sleep then we got up to go to the cruise boat. i have never been on a cruise so i wasn't sure what to expect. i never watched the youtube videos that my dad put up on about carnival cruise because i wanted to be surprised. we had to go through customs then one of the directors gave us a quick briefing on the cards we had with our information on it, (our passport info room numbers, and credit card info), that was the keys to get into our cabins. so after that was all done we all walked on our way to the cruise! what an exciting walk, i tell you. if i was going with a good friend or a boyfriend i'd imagine me being all excited about going through the little maze of windows before entering the cruise, of course i was with my family so i was sort of on, that silly, stay in the background, ready for a week onboard of no drinking or having someone to really explore the boat with except for my parents. giddy thoughts of the titanic movie and any other cruise type movie crossed my mind, you know? ghost ship (im going to post the one scene from ghost ship later), even poseidon i suppose...as soon as we entered the cruise, we were in the main lobby. lisa and matt rushed to the bar. i looked around then the wedding coordinator came and got us, (just me, lisa, matt, my parents matts mom, and my aunt)...so we could get the rooms and matt and lisa could prepare to get ready. matt when in the kids room which was connected to their room and we stayed in their room to help lisa. the room was small, i thought. we helped lisa put on a few false eyelashes and some fake french manicure nails, and then her wedding dress and some makeup to cover up the morphy snail/cherub tattoo lisa has. i put some things in my hair and had a glass of red wine. then when it was time to go downstairs i could see lisa was shaking, she was nervous! i filmed her walking a bit on the way to the area we were going to have the wedding at. i heard music and i felt sort of lump in throat, its a big deal, a wedding! but lisas wasnt like a normal wedding where you have time to plan and all that, since it was on a cruise, the rest of the brown clan couldn't attend due to money and resources. i want my wedding (if i ever have one!??) to be traditional, done at a nice, bright church with stained glass windows, and an elegant reception and NO i will not bring the family with me on the honeymoon!! haha! (my parents kind of worried about matt and lisas constant drinking...i will mention it later, maybe..but yeah they always had a drink of them each time we saw them haha! hey why not tho? your on vacay celebrate right?) but lisa was beautiful in her vera wang gown and matt looked bashfully proud of his new wife. after wedding we were led to the club of carnival, (one step up) for the reception hour. i thought we had it for the night but we just had it for an hour what the heck is that!? that aint a reception! lots of hor'deurs like salmon ceviche, shrimps, uh...indian type food, we also all did a champagne toast, they cut the cake, i gave a speech, (although i can't remember what i said!?? mike keeps asking me too, im like, 'thats all you care about is the speech i gave?) it was a good speech everyone told me. took pics. danced a bit. the wedding coordinator did a no-no tho, she asked me to go to the room for a book SHE forgot, i didnt go but later she asked my mom so my parents went and therefore they missed out on getting a pic of everyone and plus my dad didnt get to do the father/daughter dance which he had wanted to do. afterwards everyone went to their rooms but i helped the photographer, rakeem, (rahesh? i dont know!? im sorry!) i helped him with the lights. pics came out nice but he took a long time, a few hours, and we all started to get tired. but lisa didnt show it. matt wanted to drink tho you could tell. plus we were all getting hungry and the photog did not take any outside, which he should of! oh actually before photog took the pics we had to go to the muster station to hear where our emergency boats were in case of emergency everyone cheered and said congrats. on the way out they started singing, 'rock the boat, dont rock the boat baby' (or whatever that song is?) which was kind of weird is that a wedding song on a boat? bcuz someone had commented that on my facebook update about lisas wedding 'make sure lisa dont rock the boat' that song. idk??? oh yeah, the one wedding coordinator kept 'handling' us i thought, she guided us and she was winking at me, (like the all-seeing eye?) im weird, but when this stuff happens to you you cant help but be like, 'huh?' ok just got distracted i shared the ghost ship thing i said something feels sort of 'sinister' about how pleasant everyone is...it was my author like creativiness which isnt really creative at all just highlighted by ghost ship movie writers stephen king books, jurassic park or m. night shymalon or any other style which 'inspired' my writing. nah im kidding i mean, i have written things that wasnt 'inspired too
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