Girls' Night/ Bachelorette Party by lildesiqua featuring snake handbags
New York & Co. Tank Top: $10
BCBG Max Azaria Skirt: present from C for Valentine's Day! Thanks boo!
Express SnakeSkin Purse (the one I had looked more like the 2nd, lighter one here): $10
Necklace: Present from C on our Cabo San Lucas, Mexico trip! Thanks again boo!
none brand navy blue eye shadow
BCBG heels: VERY old, don't remember the price, sorry!
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So do you like my outfit? This was my first time using Polyvore, so I'm stil getting used to it, but I kinda love it!
I don't have any pics from my friend's Super-sized, Surprise Bachelorette Party (that I wrote about here) yet, but this is very similar to the outfit I wore. Plus, I wanted an excuse to try out Polyvore! Do any of you use Polyvore? I'd love to see some of your creations!
I was planning on only going to Day 1's events of the bachelorette party, and coming home that night. But I wound up staying over because my bag of "stuff" - workout clothes, make up, etc. was in my friend's car, and when we moved from dinner to the clubs, we took a cab, and I forgot my bag in her car. So I stayed overnight, but C picked me up early on Sunday because I said we had a baby shower to go to.
The whole she-bang took place in Philly, a near 40ish minutes from me. The day started at Magical Moments Dance Studio. I was the first to arrive...everyone else was at least 15 minutes late! Our bachelorette was actually surprised! though she said she kinda knew that I would be there because I put as my FB status "It's like a girls only reunion- and I can't wait! :)" I was like, how did you know that was about YOU though?! She just figured it was. Oh wells. And she knew that we would be dancing, because her MOH said to "wear whatever you would wear for a dance practice" instead of something less telling like "where what you would to go to the gym." But overall she was surprised, and overjoyed to see everyone!
This is the studio. That was not our instructor, or our class. Our instructor does private sessions in her home, but rented out this studio for us.
We had a private party. The dance was listed as "striptease", but there was no stripping involved. And apparently in the talks beforehand with the instructor, the MOH had specified not too raunchy (our bachelorette is a little timid, and actually so was I being that I only knew 2 of the 7 people there), and not too hardcore, and a good mix of regular and floor-work.
Oh.Em.Gee. we danced for 2 hours. The instructor had actually choreographed a dance for us to Ke$ha's "Take It Off" (how appro). Seriously, I was in pain for 2 days afterwards. I worked out thigh muscles I forgot existed. My arms were sore. And my hip bone hurt from rolling around on the floor so many times. But it was a lot of fun. There is a video, but I will not be posting it anywhere because 1) I don't have it yet and 2) we're shy.
After that we went to the Bach's apartment to take showers and change for the night activities. We took her to eat at a sushi place sin Chinatown, and had a table reserved upstairs for karaoke afterwards. The food was pretty good, I just felt a bit rushed. We got to our reservation a little late, then didn't order right away because we had to dress up the Bach in her light-up Bach sash, crown, and beads. Then we all got name tags, and she got to put whatever nickname she had for us on it, and we had to wear it for the rest of the night. And every time she called us by our real name instead of our nicknames, we got to give her a truth or dare.
I decided to try Green Tea Mochi. I realized I am not a fan, even though I really like Green Tea ice cream. It might have had something to do with the fact that the outside was like a hard jelly consistency.
The game started off really rough, because Miss Batch didn't want to participate. On her first dare, she was told that she had to give our waiter a compliment. She took for-ev-er, then like 45 min later came up with "You're really good at serving us, thank you." Wah-wah. Then on her 2nd truth q, she was asked what her favorite position was. This one literally took her approx 15 min of us staring at her in dead silence until she answered. But after that, we changed the rules a little bit so that everyone had to answer whatever question was brought up. I loved this game!! What can I say, I'm an over-sharer.
This thing is no joke. It comes with a little remote type thing that you can push to either be on/off, or various speeds of blinking...like a walking Christmas tree.
So after a slightly rushed dinner, we had out desserts brought upstairs with us so we could start our one hour reservation of karaoke. We weren't able to get a private room because everything was taken until midnight. I think that would've been much better, because the table we had reserved was in the back center. When it was our turn to sing, and all the TV's with the words were in the front, blocked by crowds of people unless you literally stood on the table/couches (which was heavily frowned upon, it turned out), we couldn't see. So, needless to say, our first 2 songs didn't go so well. We sang:
Yeah - Usher
Down - Jay Sean
Lady Marmalade - Moulin Rouge version (Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink, Lil Kim...and yes, I did the Lil Kim rap!)
After the karaoke, our plan was to go clubbing. Unfortunately, our party planners didn't get that far in the planning. They sort of left it up to the group. Bad idea- you have 7 girls, with 7 different opinions, and only 3 knowing where anything in Philadelphia was. So we took a cab and went to Spot #1 (don't remember name). It sucked. It was too early, there was nowhere to sit, any tables they had were marked "Reserved" and were being watched like a hawk, there was no coat check, and apparently where we were standing was "in the thruway" so we were asked to move 4 times. We would have left sooner (like, after being asked to move the 2nd time) but 3 of the girls had ordered drinks (wine) and we didn't want them to chug. And honestly, I'm not a fan of anywhere that doesn't have tap water and charges you $3 for a bottle.
Spot #2 had a $20 cover charge, so we didn't bother even going in. We then took a cab to the other side of town.
Spot #3 was AWESOME. It was called Byblos.
That's where we spent the rest of our night. They had great music, a coat check, and HOOKAH. I freaking love hookah. Lucky for me, so did 2 of the other girls. But in order to get a hookah, you had to get a table. And in order to get a table, you had to order drinks. This was not a problem for me, however our Bach is a non-drinker (did I fail to mention that earlier? Yeah, it's really weird going out clubbing and partying with a non-drinker. Weird in the sense that I feel guilty for drinking, which is no fun.) But again, some of the other girls drank, and the non-drinkers had soda or (bottled) water. The other problem was that by the time we got to this place, it was waaaay overcrowded. And the only table they had available only fit 4 people. So we had to keep switching people in/out. And the overcrowded part made dancing very very difficult, especially since our table was (again) in the middle of a thruway. But we worked it out.
Note: A hookah is NOT normally/traditionally used to smoke pot. It is used for smoking flavored tobacco. All it does is give you a slightly lightheaded feelings for a few seconds/minutes. We had jasmine- it was delish.
By 2:30AM we were all dead tired. We headed back to the Bach's place, singing Madonna and other older, fun songs along the way, and crashed around 3. Only to wake up at 7:00AM to Bach's upstairs neighbors, who decided to start jackhammering at that hour. WHO DOES THAT?! After that we couldn't really fall back asleep, but we pretended to until about 8:30- 9 when everyone got up and started getting ready for Part 2. Lucky for me, C got up early (so nice of him!) and picked me up at her place, and I got to relax and soothe my still-sore muscles the rest of the day!
