Thursday, September 06, 2007

Entry #203

Well, I'm a married woman! Ben and I just got back home to NYC from our whirlwind trip out west to get hitched! We first went to Boulder, CO to meet up with our good friends and go to Reggae in the Red Rocks~ very cool! What an amazing amphitheater! Also amazing was that the next day, Sunday, everyone went back to the show and I opted to stay at our friends house by myself and did the best yoga! I did yoga out on their balcony overlooking the mountains and trees and open sky. I needed the time alone to wrap my head around our then upcoming wedding festivities. It was blissful.Then we flew to San Francisco and drove up to Mt. Shasta on August 20th. We were crazy busy pretty much the entire time we were in the most restful place I know! When you throw a party for 100 plus friends and family, a wedding no less, there is A LOT to do and it's all timely. We did enjoy all of it though. That's the key. My best friend and Maid of Honor, Micaela Colley (Google her name, you'll be amazed!) said that being real busy is not really the problem; it's when you realize you're busy and resist the flow that it becomes a problem. So true, so true. So, I just DUG being busy and it was like riding down the rapids on a sturdy raft. We had our beautiful ceremony right on the mountain herself at a place called Red Fir Flatt. We had the most beautiful ceremony. It was Jewish style being that Ben is Jewish and I'm not yet. We stood under the Chuppah and had a female rabbi officiate. She did such a good job. Her name is Rabbi Jacqueline Brodsky from Ashland, Oregon. We had our reception down the mountain at the Mt. Shasta City Park at the Upper Lodge. Our friends and family decorated it so sweetly. We had Brenda from the Buddha Belly in Weed, CA cater it with her great staff. The food was heavenly. Hardcore Coffee of Sebastopol provided the java, Lani Phillips of Rare Images in Mt. Shasta was our official photographer, and Ed Russ (DJ Jah Karma) of Austin, Texas spun the tunes. The most fun part of the reception I think for me was the Hora. It's when the bride and groom get picked up on chairs and the crowd lifts them up and dances around them to this great music! We were on folding chairs! Don't ever use folding chairs for this! Both of them broke while we were up there! It only added to the danger/excitement! We had our first dance to the Big and Rich song, "Lost in this moment". We were going to try to have an after party at the chalets where we were staying but we were finished! The next day after a little running around (more like walking slowly around) we made our late way up to Castle Lake and it was so perfect and pretty. Two days later we were at Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada!!!So that is my entry for now, hopefully I'll come back and fill you in on what all happened at Burning Man 2007!!!Jessica Star-SandersPretty nice, eh? Someone who sands/polishes the stars!