"Bachelorette Party"

So last night I spent the night with my maid of honor, Holly. We've had this sleepover on our calendars for weeks, maybe even months, because the morning we woke up she planned on taking me out for "one last hurrah" as girlfriends. Last night I met her at her work, a cute little coffee shop called Dr. Conkeys, just as she began closing up for the night. We made plans to buy Mamma Mia (the movie) and junk food on the way home and watch and sing the night away. It was a blast watching the movie with her, and when it was over, we decided we hadn't had enough. We turned on the sing-a-long version of the movie, flipped to our favorite songs, and sung and danced with all our energy in our pjs. It was glorious girly fun.

The next morning, on our way to our destination of the day, we again listened to the soundtrack of Mamma Mia and sang our hearts out together.

Ok, so let me just tell you, Holly knows how to throw a bachelorette party. She arranged, through her dad's friend who works on the set of The Office, to take me to a filming of the show!!! She made sure, too, that her dad's friend Phil knew that we're especial fans of the actor who plays Jim, John Krasinski. When we arrived on set Phil ushered us into what they call "The Green Room," a little room with ironically blue-painted walls with a comfy couch facing two tv screens on which you can watch what's happening live on set, and listen to everyone talk behind scenes.


In between takes we got to hear Jenna Fischer (Pam) tell everyone a story about Angela (Angela). Angela recently delivered a baby, and apparently has been losing a lot of sleep because she is very out of it, as evidenced by this story. Everyone on set were given bottles of water, and someone handed Angela a marker and told her to write her name on it. Instead of writing her name, Angela wrote on the bottle, "Water." Poor woman. :)

The first star sighting we had was Mindy Kaling (Kelly) who we saw as she walked past the doorway of The Green Room to her office. Next, Oscar, (Oscar) came into The Green Room. He recognized that we were unfamiliar so he reached out his hand and introduced himself. He continued a bit of small talk as he grabbed his jacket and then left the room.

Outside of The Green Room there is a little fridge and a table full of goodies for the people on set. Rainn Wilson (Dwight) went to the table, and as he was reaching for a drink, he met eyes with me. He immediately dropped what he was doing and came into The Green Room to introduce himself to Holly and me. He made a bit of fun at us that our names were so similar, and when we told him who our host for the day was (Phil), he said, "What an awful guy, Phil. Ha." as he walked out of the room. Holly and I looked at each other and squeal-giggled.

About ten minutes later, after Holly and I had had our fill of reading the hilarious script that was on the coffee table before us, Phil entered the room and said, "Holly and Hayley, may I introduce to you Mr. John Krasinski." John (Jim) entered the room close behind him and introduced himself with a handshake for each of us. Phil told John that I was engaged to be married, and John very cheerily congratulated me. I let him know that I was currently celebrating my bachelorette party with Holly, and he quickly responded, "Oh, great. If you're gonna have a bachelorette party, this is the place to do it, in The Green Room, which is actually blue." We laughed and eventually asked for a picture with him, something he very eagerly agreed to!


After Phil took our picture, he commented that Holly and I probably represent the general demographic of Johns fans. We shrugged our shoulders and said, "Probably." John was like, "Oh, too bad, I was kinda shooting for the 35-40 year old men." Holly said, "Well my dad's a fan of yours!" John: "There ya go!" Phil and John then said their goodbyes and hustled off to set. Holly and I stayed to watch one more take and then we left for our next destination.

I feel so blessed...Hoily, with her connections, has visited the set of The Office twice, and I have been privileged enough to join her both times!!

Holly next took me to a cute little tea room on Honolulu Street in Montrose, one of our favorite towns during Christmas time. The tea was so fun with her!



Before heading back home for the evening, we took a stroll down Honolulu Street and did a bit of shopping. Very cold and wet because of the rain, but fun. :)

VERY good day.