March 5, 2007

• Fun Night on the Queen Mary

  On Saturday night, Johnny and I attended my company's Mardi Gras party (we didn't have an office-wide holiday party last year, so this is in lieu of that) aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach. It was a black-tie-optional event, and most of the women chose to get dolled up! Of course, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to dress it up a bit, considering that my usual work appearance since I've been pregnant has been lackluster, to say the least. I got a cute dress at Mimi Maternity, and I reused the cute shoes I got for Lily's wedding.

  Before we left for the party. Here's a side view! I'm holding the dress down so you can see the belly better.

  

  Front view, outside our apartment unit

  

  The Queen Mary itself was beautiful. I thought it was just an old ship used for parties, but apparently there are restaurants, bars and hotel rooms on there. Rumor has it that the ship is haunted, but we didn't run into any spirits that night.

  Queen Mary, lit up at night

  

  Once we arrived in the ballroom, we picked up some Mardi Gras gear (beads and masks) and then sat down to enjoy dinner.

  Johnny and I at the table

  

   

  After dinner, Johnny and I visited the tarot card reader that was hired for the party. We all remarked upon her uncanny likeness to Britney Spears (in Britney's heyday, pre-shaved head), and it turns out that the tarot card reader's other gig is as a Britney impersonator! Anyway, the reader was good -- since she only told us good stuff, I'll choose to believe her! Johnny and I asked her to tell us about our baby. She asked if we wanted to know about the baby's gender. We didn't say we already found out. We said, sure, tell us. She laid out six cards, and the first thing she said was that she had a very strong feeling that the baby is a boy! (See, she's good already.) She said it's either a boy or a very dominant, strong-personality'd girl. Hey, there's no shortage of dominant women in both our families! She then told us that the first thing she saw in the cards was how strong our relationship was. Then, she said that our son will have a bright future filled with many accomplishments. The one thing she warned us about was that he's likely to be impatient (surprise, surprise!), and that we would need to work to instill patience in him, and that we as parents need to work to avoid manipulating or forcing things to happen for our son, and let him experience things for himself. Good advice! I'm very impatient, and it would be great not to pass that on to Baby O'Neal.

  The reader also said that she saw more kids in our future, about two to three kids total. I asked her if I would ever have a daughter. She laid out more cards and then told me I would definitely have a daughter one day! I'll choose to believe that.

  After the fortunes, it was time to dance!

  Johnny and I never pass up the chance to take a self-taken photo on the dance floor!

   

  Who says pregnant ladies can't cut a rug?

  

  Johnny shows off his mad dancing skillz

  

  Who are these crazy kids?!

  

  Hope you all had nice weekends! Oh, and there's also a protected post!

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