Shower/bachelorette party!

With all of my and my friends travel schedules (most of my friends also work for CDC), we didn't have time to put together a bridal shower or bachelorette party, but the weekend before the wedding, my friend Meredith managed to get a quorum together to go to the Atlanta Botanical gardens and then out to dinner for tapas.


Here are all of us pushing the rock - it's on a pole, and when you get it going, you can push it with a finger.Guess you have to kiss a lot of frogs....At the tapas restaurant - Fuego...Trying to keep the bride-to-be tiara on my head! Actually - it had fallen off into the frog pond in the botanical gardens and had to be washed and blow dried. :)The incredible torte Meredith ordered! It said Congratulations Julie before the bottom part was cut. :)My crazy friends from the Malaria Branch..... MeredithJulie
and Jodi (we worked in Niger together)and me with everyone's sangria glasses :)