One Day To Go: The Morning and Early Afternoon

I'm back!  I started this post before the 30 days of pictures and never finished and posted it, so here it is. I have some semi-funny winter posts along with wedding and maybe finally honeymoon posts to get to in the next couple of weeks. 
This one was going to be a bit long so I decided to break it up into a couple of posts.  To say I was tired on the day before my wedding was a bit of an understatement.  Staying up 'til midnight and then getting up at 3am, then going back to bed to get and getting up at 6:30am is not smart many nights and it is especially not smart so close to your wedding.  I like my job and all, but if I were to get a redo on my wedding stuff, I would NOT have worked the day before my wedding.  Work wasn't bad and I'm not sure I really had a lot I could get done during that time of the day anyway, but I could have used some more sleep.  As you may remember, my brother arrived a little before 3am and then I had to get up for work at 6:30.  Somehow I made it to work on time, had a decent day, and my boss let me leave a few minutes early.  I was home by just after 1:00.  I had time to come home, finish last minute favor assembly, make sure all the wedding party gifts were good to go, pack a bit, eat lunch and then head to the hotel where we were having our reception to drop some stuff off including the favors. Wow, that was a run on sentence. My English professors would not be proud.  Sorry!  I had wanted to go to the gym, but there just wasn't enough time so no gym for me.  My fiancé took a half day off from work so he got home as I was in the midst of all this and he helped me get things loaded into the car and ready to go.  Then we headed off to the hotel in separate cars.  I got there as his parents were checking in, which turned out to be perfect timing as they were able to help my fiancé and me unload the car and then they sent me in to get my nails done (there is a salon in the hotel, the same one where I'd had my pedicure and make up trial) and they finished unloading the car and then parked my car for me.  The lady who did my nails was the same one who had done my trial make up.  She was nice and we made small talk.  While I waited for my nails to dry,  I realized it was the first time I'd really had a chance to sit and relax that day.  I kept thinking of the last minute things I had to do, but in retrospect it was also nice to have a few minutes in hiding and not have to do anything besides just sit.  I'm not that good at sitting still doing nothing, but I had allowed myself enough time so I wasn't constantly watching my watch and I wasn't feeling too stressed at that point.  :)  Soon my nails were dry (and if I may say so myself, they looked good). 
Next up:  Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner