Chp42 Napa Valley scam

Ana pov:

The first week of June. School starts Monday. The three of us, Kate, Mary and I are booked for a heavy summer schedule. Before the school take hold of our lives, we announce girls only weekend in Napa, California. The guys are not happy.

I announce an all-guy bonding fishing trip on the California coast. The Steele, Grey, and Layton are required to attend. All the teenagers are not allowed to go. They will spend the time chaperoned at a hotel in Napa.

The guys are sulking. But they fly off Friday morning to shelter cove California. Branney kills their cell phones and the uninformed ladies' cells as well. They have no idea what awaits them, just Dad. We have a full schedule. Mary corrals the ladies at the ST. Helena hot spring and mud baths. I so miss ducking Alesha head in the mud, turns out Contessa does it. The women can't keep her mouth shut about Kaylee, us and Shawnee. She is cruising for a bruising, Toni reads her the family or get out speech, she is subdued, but I see problems down the road.

While the core conspiratorialists work with our minions. We have planned to make this the best small, low key wedding ever. We have taken over a winery, three hotels, and a major chunk of air space. We use hot air balloon to shield us from the media's air force.

The tent is set. The arbor flowered and the reception set. The additional friends and family fly in Saturday. We will run the wedding at 1:30 Sunday. I sip wine with the mom's while we gab about tomorrow. Kaylee is nervous. We get her stoked for the event. At dawn Sunday morning we announce the event. The ladies are stunned as the bride's brunch goes into full swing.

The guys have a spirited fishing contest Saturday, which Ben wins, poor Elliot caught a twenty-foot kelp, while Christian caught a bait fish about 3oz's. Lewis did play. Dan and Robert hooked each other. And Luke's salmon was eaten by a passing shark. Dad has made sure the guys are wasted by 11pm Saturday night with an army drinking game. He rousted them at 5am. To supposedly go fishing. They are hungover and sleep till they arrive at the airfield. The fly into Napa, bus to a hotel Grace and Toni meet them.

"All right gentlemen, here are your room keys. Your clothes are laid out. You have thirty minutes to shower, shave and be on the bus. Any one late will be dragged on to the bus as is. our we clear!" Toni booms, with Grace nodding behind her.

"Don't waste time asking, get moving!" Grace yells over the questions.

The bus then drives around Napa for about forty minutes, even thou there only going two miles down the road. They arrive at the winery. We separate the wedding party from the guest. The guys are standing in the entrance tent, looking about, as the kids come in. the kids are smiling pictures of beauty and youth. The girls are flower girls, with Regal 10-year old leading. Devon will be ring bearer, while the teenagers will be ushers with Archie, Celesta crush and Dan summer intern, holding them in check, particularly Lewis's two brats. Mia has had two days to beat them into submission. Celesta will corral the little ones in the processional.

The guys are in sharp suits. They are bug eyed at the rings on the pillow. We ladies smirk, letting them sweat. Dad walks in the tent we swoon at his manly display. He is in his's Class-A uniform. With all his ribbons, and medal, doodad's, topped by his Black Ranger beret with his unit flash and major leaf. We crowd him hugging and jumping up and down.

"Well, boys! Here the way this is going. Luke you are best man. Christian, Steve, Ben you guys are groomsmen. Gail will be the honored guest, with Jason. The wedding should take about twenty minutes. Then the party. Let's get set up."

We girls escape to the bride tent. The main problem is Contessa; her face is still bruised from Carla attack last week. We hide the damage, with a half mesh headscarf. She will be a bridesmaid. The first bridesmaid will be Me. I was shocked when she told me. I tried to push Mary, she oldest. But I was voted unanimously. Shawnee and Mary rounds out the maids.

We leave the tent to surprise dad. We each grad an arm and lead him to the alter. Kissing his cheek. We return to escort the bride. Dan looks sharp in a black suit as he leads his eldest daughter to the alter. As I emerge from the tent, to the piano Romeo and Juliet loves song. Where is Christian, if he bolted I will kill him. Gail points back toward the band. I turn Christian is playing the song on the piano, the classical Tchaikovsky piece. My eyes water. My man.

He rushes after the song to the alter, standing with dad. He looks so handsome. They all do. The wedding goes off without a hitch. Ray military buddies do an arch of m16 with bayonets for them to walk under. I thought it had to be swords. But Luke corrects me. Certain units do the riffles because only offices carry swords. The pictures are breath taking.

The party rocks all night till dawn breaks the Serra mountains. Kaylee got us a waiver from the first day of school. We were supposed to fly out last night. But waking up in Christian arms, on a blanket in the vineyard among the grapes. The parents are to the right, the Grey's to the left. Mary and Steve below us. Mikey and Ethan snoring behind and above us. Somewhere up there is Luke and Shawnee, and Kate and Elliot. We are all hidden in the grapes rows. I sing a happy tune, which the girls jump into, even Kate, who is graciously a tone deaf fog horn.

The world awaits us.

We all heads home, except the newly minted couple. They go to Hawaii to stay three weeks at Kate family island house. I rest on the dreamy arm of my man. As the plane flies us home thru fairy tale characters' shapes in white clouds and sun streams of gold.