Phoenix Rising in New Orleans!

I hadn't blogged about it yet because I've been so busy but this past weekend I went to New Orleans for a Harry Potter convention. Please hold back the jokes! ha. I know I'm a dork and I don't need to be reminded about that :) I took a ton of pictures but this thing only lets met blog four of them through blogger and I don't feel like uploading them all into photobucket right now. So, right now you will have to settle for a few. I flew in Friday morning and met up with some friends for bienets ( I have no clue of how to spell that) at Cafe Du Monde. It was so tasty! That night there was a Wizard Rock concert on Bourbon Street and Mtv was there covering the convention! I wonder if they got any footage of me bustin' a move. Probably not because I didn't do any dancing. Saturday just hung out with friends and that night my friends @ Spinnerscast and Spellcast put on a live podcast. That was loads of fun. I ended up having to take an EARLY flight out Sunday morning and had the craziest cab driver ever. He was pretty entertaining. I had a what I thought would be 3 hour layover in Cincinnati but ended up being stuck there for 10 hours!!! That's what I get for flying standby. Don't know that I will ever do that again. I didn't get settled back at my apartment til' 11:30 that night. Ugh. Well, here are some photos!

This is a cathedral in the French Quarter. I wish I had had time to get a closer shot.



Just a neat building.


Paige and I at Cafe Du Monde. YUM!


A shot of Bourbon St by night.


I'll try and post more pictures later.

Chirp chirp

Chirp. A friendly bird came by to say hello.

Updates and weddings

I have been begged to update about the ducks. Last weekend I wrote a long update blog about the ducks and other goings on but it didn't save so I got frustrated and didn't re-blog. It seems the ducklings might have gone off to the great farm in the sky. They started as 8. A few days passed and then it was 6. A few more days went by and there were only 4. About a week into it there were none walking around anymore. I have no idea if they died or if they just moved to the bigger pond. I went over to the big pond the other day and didn't see them so I fear for the worst. Hopefully the ducks will have more ducklings.

In other news: one of my close friends got married this past weekend! He, Jeremy, married a lovely girl named Hope whom I think is pretty amazing. The first time I met her we really clicked and I feel like I've known her this whole time. They got married at The Historic Dunaway Gardens in Newnan. It was so beautiful!! And thanks to Nathan's dad I got a full history of the place. Turns out it used to be an acting camp and celebrities frequented it in the 1930's. Walt Disney and his brother used to dine there when in town. I of course got a few pictures of the ceremony and the beautiful bride and handsome groom.

I really like this first picture because it seems the background is blurred like a Monet painting but the flower girl's face is in focus. It is very medieval looking to me.


Hope's dress was absolutely gorgeous! Possibly my dream wedding dress. She looked so beautiful! They are such a happy couple.


Here's the happy couple. Jeremy sort of blends in with Ben's dad's suit. Haha!


The communion prayer. I lucked out with this great pic. I had a hard time getting focus from a distance.


The weather could not have been more perfect. We had a grand old time at the reception hanging out with old friends (i.e. Nathan and his wife Courtney). The band was fun and played some great tunes and Ben kept burning himself with the sparkles at the procession. I am officially the last single one of the group. I don't really know how to react to that. Social gatherings will be a little odd from now on I guess.