Something cool and something not so...

There are cool events that happen in my life and it seems like there is this long delay before I blog about them. Just like the 4th of July pictures and mini family reunion that I still need to post about.

And here is one of them. 3 weekends ago Jay's niece and her boyfriend drove up from San Diego to join us for the "Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters" show at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside. The local paper had said it was a spin off of the Pageant of the Masters, but instead of famous art paintings this show would have hip hop legends' album cover. You walked in to the art gallery and were able to explore different rooms with people in the poses of different albums and then we would gather in one room/space, music from the album would come on and the dancing would begin. First was Run DMC "Tougher than Leather" which made we want to run out and get shell toed Adidas, followed by A Tribe Called Quest "The Low End Theory" and "Midnight Marauders (which was my favorite!) and then my second favorite Wu-Tang Clan "enter The Wu 36 Chambers." The most entertaining was the 2Pac "all Eyez On Me" and Notorious B.I.G. "Life After Death" duo and the duo between Jay-Z "American Gangster" and Nas "Hip Hop Is Dead." The night ended with LL Cool J "Bigger And Deffer," MC Ltye "Lye as a Rock" (which I have never heard before that night) and Salt N Pepe "A Salt With A Deadly Pepa." The dance moves of everyone was awesome and the costumes were right on point. It was an awesome show. We got a sheet with bio's of all the dancers and some of these people were still in high school. I think it's awesome that high schoolers we grooving in a college production. The night ended with us doing the longest detour to find gas, which was pretty funny because every gas station location on the GPS was no longer there. Finally we found a spot and made it home, where we talked a little outside, saw the biggest possums EVER, so big we thought it was a little dog and then called it a night.

And now to the not so cool event -- A wedding on a boat!!! Whomever thought of this ideas was just plan dumb! We had bumped into the bride last weekend while we were celebrating my mom's birthday and she was scoping out the area and she said that parking was included. When we got to the parking lot, they staff attendant mentioned that ONLY 10 parking spots were paid for and you have to have a slip.

Then, we were told that the boat was leaving at exactly at 5:30sharp by the bride herself, so we rushed there only to stand and wait for an hour before being allowed to board.

Once on the ship it was SO crowded, my butt barely fit on this plastic itty, bitty chair and there wasn't enough room for everyone to sit, so people had to stand...
And then we waited... and waited...

Finally the ceremony started and guess who decided to take this opportunity to show off? none other then the Captain who sang the theme song to the Love Boat. Can we say corny?

Then came time to exchange rings and see the look on the brides face? Well, she forgot the ring back at the dock!! We had to make our way back so she could get the ring and then re-start the ceremony.

THEN... we were told that the first hour was open bar, which it wasn't and they "fixed it" by starting the open bar AFTER the first hour. LAME! People have already bought a lot of drinks. Because of the delays, dancing was for 30 minutes and then the show was over.

Luckily, we were paired with Jay's co-worker who her and her boyfriend were hilarious!

Sorry for the poor quality pictures, but I only had my 1.3MP camera phone.