Shell's Bachelorette

So, on with the saga of Shell's wedding!  As you can see about the title, this post is going to be about her bachelorette... It definitely wasn't the conventional one, that's for sure, but it was super fun!  Only bummer was that it absolutely poured rain that day.  But oh, well!

First, I went and picked up Sydnee and we arrived at Shell's house together.  Rebekkah (Shell's sister), Linnea, and Frank's sister Annabelle were there already.  We picked up another girl, Debra, and then headed off to our destination......  The oh-so-risqué...

Aquarium! (Betcha didn't see that coming!  ...Well, unless you saw the photo below :-| )

Photo cred to Sydnee Sagalla! <3

Right away, we divvied up into groups: Sydnee, me, and Linnea on one team, and Rebekkah, Annabelle and Debra on the other. (Shell split her time between the two groups.)  Linnea and Rebekkah had prepared a super cool photo scavenger hunt and we were sent on the mission of photographing a whole bunch of things from a list.  On the list were such things as:

- Get a picture of the group looking scared in front of the shark tank!

- Photobomb a tourist's picture

- Leap into a photo with some frogs

- Find Nemo!

- Get the group to agree on the cutest animal

- Find the biggest fish you can

- Take the most unique picture you can

... and two others stand-out photographs:  Get someone to wear the "Bride-to-Be" sash Shell was wearing (we got this old, grumpy-looking employee to wear it!  It was amazing!) and get someone to propose to Shell.

Here is our team's version of the proposal.  We got another employee, this young, geeky, cute kid to do it.  I edited up the picture, to remain Weddingaholic Anonymous, but I just had to include his face so that you can get an idea of what the picture looked like.  Because it really was amazing in real life!

I'm pretty sure it was one of the highlights of the bachelorette - just SO incredibly funny.

After about an hour and a half of getting pictures, we just kindda looked at different exhibits (is that the word when talking about an aquarium?  Or is that just a 'museum' word?), such as the dolphin tank, and the otters, and sea lions.  The two groups got together and we then got something to eat at the food bar.  We just kind of took it easy for a bit and sat down underground, by the beluga tank, out of the rain, munching on our food.  Then, it was time to leave.

After the aquarium, the seven of us went out for sushi (which a coworker of mine pointed out was kind of ironic, non?  But sushi is one of Shell's favourites).  I just got some plain old California rolls - but they were so good!  I'll have to remember that sushi restaurant and return there sometime... It was really pretty inside, with cherry trees to decorate it.  We all just hung out and chatted.  It was a lot of fun!

And that was pretty much the whole bachelorette!  Definitely not the conventional kind, which I really loved actually - it really was just so much fun!  I couldn't believe, though, how quickly Shell's wedding was coming up....  It was great to celebrate her last days as an Upton because, very soon, she would be Mrs. Rios!  Wow!!