Preparations for our bachelor/bachelorette party

Something I haven't said on here is that I'm engaged! We're getting married in December, so we still have quite some time left before the big day. However, we are having our bachelor/bachelorette party this Saturday. The original plan was that both of us would do a separate activity with our friends in the afternoon, then get together at night for a BBQ and some games. Unfortunately that wasn't possible because Saturday is a holiday and there are no spa centers open (me and my friends were going to have a spa treatment), so we decided to just get together with all of our friends and make it one big day together, without any separate activities, so we're going paintballing! I'm kind of anxious, too, because I'm told that getting hit during paintballing hurts like hell.

This week's been very busy with preparing for Saturday. Me and my friend are baking a gigantic cake, which takes about three days (the cake weighs 10 pounds and supposedly serves 15-20 people). We just finished it today!

Some pictures from yesterday:

And here it is, finally finished after three days of hard (ahum) work:

It doesn't look all that great yet, but whatever, this was our first try and as long as it tastes good... Fine by me. :)

On top of that, we had to get our garden organized a bit, since all of our friends are coming to our house for the BBQ and games. So we planted some more bushes and flowers, and sowed grass seeds where we had empty patches. The weather's awful so I can't take any pictures, but one of the flowers of one of the bushes broke and I put it in a vase.

We also had to clean the entire house today AND go shopping for the BBQ. Fortunately, I had my baking friend with me, because I'm lousy at figuring out how much food I'll need to feed everyone.

It's 7 pm now and we still have to get the barbecue and another garden table at my parents' house. Anyway, I think we'll go for a nice kebab first. :)