07 | June | 2011 | Jacquelyn's Space

Hot One

Oooooo it is a hot one today. Ugh! Usually I like hot weather but I am just not ready for it yet. We didn’t really have much of a spring – rainy and cold – and now it just jumps up into the 90’s? My Dad and I opened the pool yesterday but it will be a couple of days until it is ready. Wish we would have opened it last week but it is hard to determine when to open because of all the rain and ups and downs in temp. It is supposed to cool down again later in the week. I am about to take off to the beach today and/or tomorrow.

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My husband and I went to my cousin William’s wedding in Royal Oak, Michigan on Saturday. It was the first wedding I have ever been to where somebody fainted. The best man actually fainted during the wedding vows! Poor guy – it was because of the heat. He was ok but I am sure he was embarrassed. He made a joke of it in his wedding toast at the reception so we all got to laugh at it.

The reception was at a yacht club in Wyandotte, Michigan on the Detroit River. I didn’t realize the reception was going to be outside in a tent by the river. It was freakin’ hot Saturday and we were all just melting. My wedding was pretty hot and we had an outside ceremony but at least the reception was inside in the air conditioning (I received many compliments about my wedding Saturday too – it is gratifying that my family enjoyed my wedding and remember it – just what I wanted when I was planning). I don’t think I had ever been to an outside reception. They had to take the sides off the tent to let in what little breeze was coming off the river. It got a little nicer in the evening except for the mosquitos.

In spite of all the problems it was a nice wedding. Chuck and I had fun – the whole family had fun. At first the DJ played a lot of country music (who knew my cousin and his new bride were fans of country!) and I had little hope of dancing. My Dad and my Aunt Candy were not too happy about that either. (Yesterday my Dad was like ‘Why couldn’t the guy play some Jimi Hendrix or Stairway to Heaven…’ hahahaa – too cute).

Then the DJ started playing more my kind of music and me, Chuck, my Mom and some of my aunts and uncles got up there and shook our booties. It was fun. My aunts and uncles could not get over the fact that I knew the words to some of the old bootie shakin’ songs like Tone Loc’s “Wild Thang” and “I Like Big Butts” (a song I can’t resist hearing at every wedding now so I requested it and all the ‘youngins’ loved it). My Uncle Timmy was somewhat downcast because he said he didn’t dance very well (most of the guys just sort of bounce up and down, hehe. Well except for one of my youngest cousins Jimmy, who I learned has some stripper moves – his mom was suprised too, ha) so I grabbed him by the hips and started shaking him saying ” You have to shake your hips like this…” LOL, it was hilarious. He was surprised. My Aunts and Uncles even got my brother and Nicole out on the dance floor for a bit. Wheweee it was hot! I danced to about 4 or 5 songs in a row and about died because I am so out of shape and I was sweating my ass off but I didn’t want to stop because it was so fun. I need to get together with my family more, I need to dance more.