Friday February 19th, 2mil10

Today is the big day, I was up and getting my hair done by 9am and it is really cloudy and spitting rain, not good. After she put in about 40 bobby pins and 6cans of hair spray I immediately went to the store and bought an umbrella. I met Pamela back in the salon; she was getting a pedicure and feeling great. She had been very stressed Thursday trying to keep 40 people amused, which is how many guests she had, at a destination wedding, unbelievable! She woke up today and was at peace, which is a great thing! We had some champagne while we chatted (Brandi, her maid of honor brought some in) and a husband of a friend of Pam’s was taking pictures the whole time, at the end of the time they spent there he had taken over 800 pictures. I went back to my room to get ready and was back in Pam’s room before 1 (the wedding was at 3) and Pam, Lexi and I munched on nachos and guacamole. Pam had the hairdresser put her veil on and she was wearing a zip up the front hoodie, jean shorts and her 5” heels! Lexi put on her dress and I cried, then Pam put her dress on and I cried some more! All the girls came in with their dresses and it was time for the photographer to come in to take some pictures. I left to go to the lobby where we all got picked up by golf cart to take us to the gazebo on the beach where Pam and Derek got married. It was still cloudy but at least it wasn’t raining.

The gazebo was gorgeous, white fluffy curtains with a table in the center with a flower arrangement. When we got there the white chairs were all set up, just like you see on TV, you could see the ocean in the background with the black clouds above. Once we all got settled, the 3 flower girls came first, then the 4 brides maids then Pamela walked down the aisle with her dad. The clouds parted and the sun came out! She was beautiful, Terry handed her over to Derek and they proceeded to walk up the 3 stairs and faced the preacher. The ceremony was in Spanish with the wedding planner following in English, when they asked Pamela if she would take Derek in holy matrimony she said “absolutely”, we all cried. Once the ceremony was over we went onto the beach for the pictures.

We had a great supper at one of the a la carte restaurants then the reception was outside by the pool, we had a DJ and the dancing was great. It was so awesome that Tara, Evan, Ash and Teo could be there, it was excellent as they grew up together. The reception ended at 11pm and about 5 minutes after it ended it started to rain, what timing. We stopped for a nightcap in one of the lounges then off to bed for us old farts.

Ross Kim in Cancun, Jenn (our most wonderful animal and house sitter) with the critters in Bucerias