The Bachelorette Party!

"Surprise!"  Little Scotty Jr. was yelling this to me while flailing his blanket in excitement!

A few days before, my future sister-in-law called and asked if T and I would like to go out to dinner with her and TJ's brother.  Of course we said yes and I was immediately excited to spend time with them in New Brunswick.  The plan was to go to Clyde's but meet at their house "no earlier than 6:15" on Friday.  Friday came and I picked out a cute outfit and made sure T approved... of course he did!  Before we left, T mentioned how he wanted to leave gym clothes in his car... weird, but I did not probe.  I just thought he wanted to have emergency gym clothes for a rainy day.  

While driving to their house, we were talking about the eccentric menu that is offered at Clyde's and laughed about ordering antelope.  We arrived at the house and made our way up to the door.  Joan answered brought us into the kitchen and then lead us into the living room where I first saw Scotty Jr. waving his blanket and yelling, "Surprise! Surprise!"  I was caught off guard because I saw Scott holding Sammy smiling, and then I saw all of my bridesmaids (except Erica :( ) and my Maid of Honor Danielle!  I started backing up and Danielle said, "This is your Bachelorette Party!!!!"  I was so surprised that all I could do was cry (of course, would you expect anything less!?!).  After I calmed down, the girls showed me the paraphernalia that I would be adorned with for the festivities of the night complete with pink Mardi Gras beads, beautiful personalized buttons, a Bachelorette sash, and a sparkly tiara with a veil... they know me waaaay too well!  Once we all dressed up appropriately and posed for the photo op, we hopped in the car and made our way to Red Bank!!

When we arrived ion Red Bank, we walked to the restaurant Red.  The amount of attention I was getting was out of this crazy!  We entered the posh restaurant and was greeted by our waiter, Jeff, who was fantastic and funny.  The drinks were scrumptious and the food was ridiculously delicious!  The girls and I chatted up the night while eating the appetizers and entrees.  Before we left, we asked the waiter where a good dance party would be and he mentioned that Red, itself, has a nice club scene.  We filed that away but first we checled out Downtown.  The bar was nice and drinks were good but it was lacking the dancing that we were longing for.  After some time at Downtown, we ventured back over to Red where we found the true party.  We had some more drinks and started the dance party near the DJ.  Nikki mentioned to the DJ that I was getting married so he gave me a shout out and everyone began to scream!  I lost track of time because I was having the time of my life dancing with the girls.  After some time, we made our way back to Downtown to see the band.  When we arrived, the band was playing an old favorite of mine; Sublime's "Santaria."  Of course I began to dance and sing.  The next thing I knew I was up on stage with the band singing my heart out with the lead singer, sharing the microphone!  My dream came true!  I was singing on stage to an audience.  Crazy!

It was laaaaate by the time we were home and I was soooo happy.  That was the nest night out of my life!  I greeted TJ, who stayed at the house and waited for us girls to come home.  He was in his "gym clothes!"  I knew he was fibbing... but what a good fib he told!