BRIDAL SHOWER
Shortly after news of the engagement was made public, Janet and Cassie began to organize a bridal shower for Sam. Within a short time they decided that this first of several showers would be a "bride and groom shower" where Jack, Sam and lots of friends, both male and female, were invited. Since the party was going to be non-traditional, they decided to add a third non-traditional planner, Teal'c.
Since many of the airmen wouldn't be able to leave the base for the event, the trio decided to hold the equal opportunity shower in the base cafeteria. The room was decorated with streamers and balloons and looked festive, its usual drab military appearance easily forgotten.
Within 30 minutes of the start of the party, the room was bustling with activity. Brightly wrapped packages kept piling up on the gift table.
Once everyone had enjoyed the homemade delicacies (the typical military cuisine was nowhere to be seen), Janet shepherded Jack and Sam to a central location in the room for the gift opening. Jack looked completely embarrassed and felt rather silly, while Sam was really warming to the role of bride-to-be.
After three hours of gift opening and many well wishes, just about all the guests had gone back to their posts. This left Jack and Sam along with the planning committee in the midst of huge piles of wrapping paper and gifts.
"All right. That was fun. So how do we get all this stuff home?" Jack asked, looking a little worse for wear.
"Good question. Any ideas, Janet?" Sam asked her friend, hoping she might have driven the pick up today.
"Well let's see what you've got here. There are three toasters – someone must have heard that you like to dismantle these to build homemade stargates. Cookbooks, hmm, Sam it looks like more than one friend thinks you might need a little help. Jello molds – there are at least five I can find. How did they know? And hey, there must be every size and shape of cake pan in existence!" Sam grinned at Jack.
"Oops! "Janet said, holding up the gift which had made quite the hit at the party. Sam and Jack both focused on a rather sheer, totally exquisite sapphire blue negligee.
"Hey don't put that away so quick," Jack begged, grinning.
"And then, of course, there's Daniel's gift, matching fishing poles."
"What's that about? Why would anyone give you guys fishing poles for a shower gift?" Cassie asked innocently.
Jack and Sam just smiled at each other before answering Cassie. "It's about finally going fishing, of course. We've been waiting a long time."