Yesterday was my mother's birthday. Happy Birthday!

We had family and friends over and tried for it to be a surprise. I think she said she knew, but whatever.

Julie graduates!

Tonight was the first of two ceremonies for the Inter American University graduation. It was all about receiving the sashes of honors and metals tonight. If you weren't going to receive an honors sash or a metal, I don't know why you'd show up. So my sister graduates magna cum laude and she won the metal for highest gpa within her concentration. What a nerd! :)

Last night was the final night of this Coors Light event called Art @ Bars. The idea was that Coors was looking for an original painting that they'd use on the bottles during this upcoming christmas. So, they went around the bars and certain people painted. The finalists work was exhibited at El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico last night. The judges saw and chose a winner. It was a real chill event. A few of us went and I hadn't eaten dinner so I was hungry. Apparently I wasn't alone in that feeling because most of everyone in our group was waiting for the food to come out. We stalked the chicken kababs as they entered the room :)

As far as the art goes, I did like the winner's painting and a few others. I do have to say, there were some that I didn't understand how or why they were chosen as finalists. The paintings didn't make sense from a marketing point of view...something you can slab on as a label. Either way, it was a fun night.

So I was in VA this past weekend. I'd been feeling the itch to get out of PR for a couple of days and it just so happened that Ari was going to be performing in DC that same weekend. I hadn't seen that fool in 7 years and our trips never coincide so it was cool that it worked out this time. So a few of us went and had a great time seeing Ari do his thing and hanging out.

It was a cool trip. Hung out with friends and saw people I hadn't seen a while. Always fun. :)

You can check out Ari on myspace: Ari Shaffir

Congratulations to Adriana and Ryan on their wedding!

We stayed at the hotel next to the one where the wedding was being held. OMG! When I walked into the lobby 2 things happened. 1) The movie The Shining came to mind and 2) it freaked me out. It looked as it hadn't been remodeled since it openned in the 70's. It was a combination of looking like something out of  The Shining mixed with a very old looking airport lobby. WEIRD! and FREAKY!

Everything about the wedding was super nice and beautiful. So many details! I loved the trees with the hanging glass. And the table decoration....wow. It looked like something you'd see in a magazine. The food was excellent and people partied till 3am!

Yesterday was Andrea's 26th birthday and we had a party at the house. It was supposed to have been a surprise party, but she already knew about it days ago (Gracias Rafa!). She was a good sport about it though and still went along with it. For a year I'd been hearing about this cookie cake. I get it...it's a very large cookie in cake form. I still had never seen one and luckily Nestle Toll House opened all those shops so I finally saw one. That's what she wanted, that's what she got. Pretty good.

The usual suspects showed up and we all had a good time. There were a couple of random people who I was trying to figure out who they were, but no one seemed to know the story behind them. Oh well.

Jo Ann came down to PR with some friends to celebrate one of them turning 30. Lots of fun was had even though I didn't take that many pictures. I did take her to Pink Skirt of course! It's not a PR trip if you don't go to Pink Skirt ;) j/k.

Notice how Jo Ann has trouble keeping her eyes open in a few of them :)