Handle With Care: Wedding and Vacation Fun :)

My sister and I were blessed to have the opportunity to be bridesmaids in our aunt's wedding. Though there were a few rough spots along the way this weekend has probably been the closest thing to a vacation that our family has done.

Here is a rough overview of our trip. :)

Our journey started at around 11pm thursday night. We packed up the car and headed out to KC so we could catch our 4am flight to Denver. We got to the north side is Springfield and had to turn around and go back to Nixa because my mom's truck was still having problems (it had been in the shop 4 times that week). So we got home and reloaded everything into my little Geo. We left Nixa...again...at around midnight.
We landed in Denver around 7am and went to breakfast with the rest of the family before our 2 hour ride up the mountain to Vail. Memories were definitely made during breakfast because my family was exhausted and slightly delirious from getting such little sleep. A new name was made for the bride and groom (Shane and Jamie are now Shamie and Jane) and it has stuck ever since.
The Condos in Vail were like castles. I have never seen or experienced anything close to them before. There were at least 9 rooms all with 2 or more beds and the upstairs have 5+ beds in each room. On the second night we had the entire 3 floor rented out. The view of the mountains was amazing!
Preparing for the wedding was slightly chaotic but in the end the wedding was beautiful. My sister and I were escorted by the tallest groomsman which made for a funny moment that will be remembered.
I had a little bit of a rough time being at 8000 feet since I was sick before I left for the trip and the air is so dry and thin up there. Started on my second round of antibiotics and hoping they will do the trick. Since I wasn't feeling well I didn't get any pictures the first night and I was a little disappointed with the quality of some of the pictures I took- I think there is a little lesson within it all though because I was reminded that I have to look at all situations and pictures with an open mind and open eyes. Sometimes I have to remind myself to step back and not be so hard on myself.
I got the chance to visit a little with the wedding photographers there and since they were shooting with canon also I was able to help them out. They filled up ten 4gig cards while shooting raw but they forgot their cable reader. Luckily I had mine so they were able to dump the card to their laptop and continue shooting. They also had a photo booth type set up and they were asking for someone who could "jump" so just for fun I did a ring leap and they captured it perfectly (not many I have come in contact with can capture that) so I am super excited to see their pictures. It was really fun doing pictures with them as part of the bridal party.
Our plane ride home was definitely a stretch of my comfort zone since it was so chaotic. One of those moments where I had to remind myself to breathe. There were so many people at the Denver airport and many of the flights were messed up because of high winds. Our flight had a gate change and we had to wait on another plane to come in before we could leave. It was a very bumpy ride but we got to KC around 1am and we were home around 5am.