Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Puttin' On the Ritz...

This past weekend, Moe and I went to Naples, Florida for a destination wedding at the Ritz Carlton.  The entire weekend can be summarized by the following bullet points.....

- Arrived at the hotel at 6 pm Friday  night
- Unpacked in our ridiculously nice hotel room with a balcony overlooking the resort
- Got lost on the beach trying to find the Bay Colony Beach House
- Took a detour through a maintenance alley and a few hotel pools and made friends with Jen and Adam - why we haven't been best friends forever, I do not know
- Rehearsal dinner cocktail hour in which I drank a few too many Coronas with a lime
- $40 dollars worth of late night eating - quesadillas ordered from the bar at the Ritz (charged to our room - theme of the weekend)
- Saturday morning hangover cured by a $10 Mimosa and a $40 breakfast at the Ritz dining room (again charged to our room)
- Emergency evacuation of the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort because our friends decided they HAD to take the emergency stairs instead of the elevator (good work Mal)
- Diet Coke #1 of the weekend (Tennis pro shop charged to the room)
- Afternoon of fun in the sun (in which I REFUSED to put my bathing suit on) followed by a healthy sunburn
- Diet Coke #2 of the weekend (Tennis pro shop charged to the room - now on a first name basis with the Pro Shop lady who shares my love for diet coke and hate for Pepsi products)
- 5:00 pm wedding ceremony that was at the beautiful Bay Colony Golf club (panorama provided below)
- 6:00 pm cocktail hour in which a glass of white wine got dumped on my dress (AWESOME start to the evening - at least it wasn't red wine!)
- 7:00 pm start of the five course meal (most amazing meal of my life..... appetizer of scallops, salad with fresh fruit and goat cheese, grapefruit sorbet to cleanse the pallet (didn't even know what to do with this course), fillet with potatoes and green beans, followed by dessert - vague description on the dessert as I was about two glasses of wine and four beers deep so I just remember it was good!)
- Alot of dancing (hopefully appropriate)
- Another $40 dollars worth of quesadillas ordered to our room at the Ritz (drunken eatting is never a good idea)
- 8:00 am alarm clock brings us back to reality and we start packing up
- $500 hotel bill found on the "Express Checkout" paper that was slipped under our hotel door (100% regretting all the late night eatting)
- Diet Coke #3 of the weekend
- Shuttle taxi to the airport (the driver was an old man who took all six of us to town on the taxi fare - 20% automatic gratuity added onto our bill - unheard of but too tired to dispute)
- Three hour plane ride from hell - being hungover and tired doesn't mix well with someone sitting behind us that pooped their pants on the plane 
- Picked up Sky from my rents
- 4 pm - passed out on our living room floor as we were too tired to make it upstairs to our bed

- Miss J



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