Bachelorette!

My bachelorette was the Wednesday before the wedding. I figured Thursday was a little too close (I knew I would need at least a full day to recover), but I couldn't put it too far ahead because all of my girls are super spread out across the country. It made organizing things a little difficult, but thankfully it worked out. Half of my bridesmaids were already in Oregon, the other half arrived at different times during the day on Wednesday.

We had rooms at the Paramount Hotel in downtown Portland. It's on Taylor and an absolute perfect location if you want to be able to go out on the town! Pretty much everything is within walking distance. 

The plan for the evening was happy hour at Bartini, then dinner next door at Urban Fondue. I've expressed my love for Bartini on my blog before, so I don't need to go into too much detail, but it was fabulous as always. I have been a handful of times now, and I still had new ones to try! My new favorite is the melon martini. De-lish. It was fun for me because I love it, but also fun to see my girls enjoy it so much! They should know I would never lead them astray :)

After martinis we went over to Urban Fondue and became sufficiently stuffed to the brim. The other plan for the night was to go to Darcelle's and see the drag show, but even though we moved our dinner reservation up 30 minutes, we still didn't get done in time for it to start at 8 :( I was a little bummed, but I still plan on making a point to go now that I am back in Oregon for awhile!

Even though we didn't go to the show, the evening was great and I had a lot of fun. We walked across the street to the Blue Moon McMenamin's and ended up sitting there for awhile and drinking and laughing and talking. I'm not a huge party girl, so for me it was perfect. After that we moved back downtown and ended up at a gay bar. We tried going more places after that but it was already 1:30 and unfortunately places close around then on a Wednesday night, haha. During our wandering we stumbled (literally) upon Voodoo Donuts... without a line. If you have ever been to Voodoo Donuts or tried to go to Voodoo Donuts, you will understand the magnitude of this statement. There is always a line, especially late at night. In my lovely state I of course decided that we must stop for a donut since there wasn't a line! Thankfully, Jordan got one with me so I wasn't the only fatty ;) No, they aren't much (it's hard to mess up a donut), but since they've been shown on the Travel Channel you can imagine the hype. Honestly, that donut saved my life. I would have been muuuuch worse off the next day ;)

All in all, it was a fabulous time with my lovely bridesmaids. I was so so so happy to finally have them all in one place! I wish we could do it all over again!

[Sisters]

[Michelle, Sarah, Me]

[Michelle, Me, Taryn] 

[I scored this dress at Forever 21 the day before... for $9.80. Woot!]

[Obligatory bathroom pics. Duh]

[Me and Chelsea]

[Blurry photo shoot with Jordy... only 2 of about a million]

[Is it obvious this was towards the end of the night?]

[Donut me!]

[Jordan's maple bacon donut and the one I chose. I asked the cashier her favorites and she got about halfway through her list before I interrupted her with, "Oh! That one's pretty!" Basically how I make most decisions]