So this past weekend, Angelica and I went to California to visit the Future In-laws as well as pick up the wedding invitations and to go over the plans for the California reception. The Trip was a lot of fun. The whole trip started off with both Angelica and I getting sick with a a sore throat and runny nose. So on no sleep we departed quiet little Provo for Madera, California. We left Provo at around 8:30 on Friday night and arrived in Vegas at about 1:30 am where Angelica and I switched and she started to drive. She drove until we arrived at her Sister's place in the middle of nowhere at around 3:30 am. From "nowhere" her sister drove until we arrived in Madera at around 7:30. All-in-All the drive wasn't that bad.
Saturday proceeded to be a long day full of sleeping by me and well I believe the same for Angelica and her sister. In the evening Angelica and I went to a wedding reception for her cousin in Oakhurst, which is about 30 mins out from Yosemite. The reception wasn't that fun. We arrived just at the end of the marriage ceremony, to see the lighting of the Catholic candles and the release of all of the white doves. I told Angelica that it would have been more entertaining if they had released some hawks at the same time to swoop down and catch the doves. After the doves, the newly wed couple walked off for the next two hours to take pictures, and the real fun of wine drinking began for the rest of the guests.
For about the next hour and a half Angelica and I (mostly me), made comments about the other guests at the wedding, and their particular lack of clothing. During the 2 hours of waiting, aside from making fun of the other guests in their semi-drunk state, Angelica's parents had me take some pictures of them with their siblings and other Family members and friends that they hadn't seen in years.
It was fun to see all the older men talking and telling stories to each other, while watching the women flash their "bling" all over the place. It was quite the sight to see for a little Mormon boy.Sunday, was spent going to church and meeting all of the members of the ward. The whole fiance thing at the others' ward is always interesting because at least for myself, I felt like I was the side amusement show for the day. After church, we went back home and had some wonderful food prepared by Angelica's mom. I stuffed myself full of food, and promptly forgot that Angelica and I were going to have dinner with one of Angelica's old young women's leaders Sister Chavez, about an hour later. It was well worth it. After lunch with Angelica's family we went and visited Sister Chavez, and then from Sister Chavez's home we went to Sister Lucero's home where Sister Chavez and Sister Lucero proceeded to give me all sorts of dirt on Angelica's younger years, and where they also interviewed me to make sure I was good enough for Angelica. Let's just say I passed with flying colors. Sunday night we worked on assembling and cutting wedding announcements.
Monday was spent like the other two days, eating lots of Mom's food. It was great. Aside from eating, we finished assembling and cutting out invitations for Angelica's parents to hand out, and then Angelica, sister, and I departed for home. On the way we stopped for some fresh California produce. We got 40 lbs of the best oranges ever, and sister got several pounds of chocolate covered things. After getting our produce we were driving by another produce stand which Angelica and her sister both wanted to go to in hopes of finding fresh strawberries. As we were exiting the freeway I noticed that there was a sign saying that the farm store had closed a half hour prior to our arriving there, but Angelica and her sister were persistent to get some fresh strawberries. When we arrived at the farm, the fence was still unlocked and so we decided to drive up to see if we could find anyone still in the store so we could buy some strawberries real quick. No one was there but they had this little cutout of fruit to put your heads and take pictures so we decided to stop and take some pictures.
While we were taking pictures we saw a truck load of field laborers drive by and leave without noticing us and in the process they locked us inside the farm. I spent about 45 mins trying to unlock the lock on the fence which was one of those locks that have the 4 separate rows of numbers running across which when the number is put in right will unlock.
