Oh yeah, line of the night goes to Loralei as she's trying to get Rory to stop doing homework and join the big welcome dinner and meet Milo… "Don't concentrate too hard… boys like 'em dumb".

--sitting in on a lecture class where Rory answered questions even though she was not enrolled (ps -I've NEVER seen somebody that excited to be in class, it kind of freaked me out)

and Loralei getting hit on by a frat guy, who invited her to a party. Loved it. And I loved that Loralei thought famous Harvard alum John Adams was just known for being a beer. Anyway, the trip was great, Rory had a blast, and by the time they returned home, the whole town knew about Loralei and Max. Luke was so secretly happy about it that her gave everyone in his restaurant free coffee. Poor Sookie had already made a gorgeous 4-tier cake, but wound up feeding it to her staff. All in all, a great, funny ep… and a great example of what a wonderful show Gilmore Girls is.

OK, one last thing. And this might be a minor detail, but something that's been bothering me since Loralei took off last week… did anyone tell Max the wedding was off? I never heard Loralei call, or saw a reaction from Max, or anything. Did they just kick him off the show and not say anything? Strange.

Ok. Love that Loralei and Rory didn't know they had a broiler under their stove. It made me feel a lot better. Love that Stars Hollow is getting it's first stoplight and crosswalk. Reminds me of some backwoods towns I've seen in Georgia. And love most that………. LORALEI ISN'T GONNA MARRY MAX!!! Ok, sorry, didn't mean to jump ahead, but it's all I could think about. It's not a for sure thing, but it's totally a huge possibility… like 95%. Max slept over the Gilmore house for the first time and I knew it was doomed when Loralei went to sleep in Rory's bed. Also, she just looked totally unhappy and awkward. AND she kept "forgetting" to make Max a set of house keys. Hmmm.

Loralei had a bachelorette party at a drag club with Sookie, Miss Patty, Michele, Rory, and her mom. And after a dinner of "a quart of wine", who did Loralei sneak off to call??? Her ex-husband. She was trying to reassure herself about getting married. PS - the AOL two-way pager product placement was so tacky. But I loved Michele's description of how he felt the day after the party… "like crap on toast". I think I'm gonna use that one, thanks! (Also, check out the cameo by Sally Struthers, looking larger than ever). So it was no major shocker to me when Loralei came running into Rory's room, telling her to get packed - they were going on a road-trip… the same weekend Loralei was supposed to be getting married. Practically sealing the nails in the Max & Loralei coffin. Run baby run! Run right into Luke's arms!!! C'mon, you KNOW she's gonna wind up with him. I just hope she doesn't take the entire season to get there.

So Loralei hadn't said yes to Max's cliffhanger proposal (yet) when we returned to Stars Hollow this season. But Rory and Dean are together. It didn't take but 3 minutes, before the Gilmore girls were back to their same ingenious, fast-paced banter. But of course, halfway through the episode Loralei decided to accept Max's marriage proposal. Even though I really think she wants to be with Luke. But that might not be a totally impossibility… Max has noted that he wants to go teach in Toronto for 2 months…. Hmmm… 2 months, no Max??? Just Loralei and Luke??? Yeah baby!

Rory's best gal pal, Lane, is being shipped off to Korea with a one-way ticket, a suitcase bigger than her, and a wintercoat. What's up with that? I know her mom doesn't like Lane to be hanging out with the other kids in town, but Lane just met a cute Korean boy. I just hope that her character will still be around on the show, she is so funny. Rory's worst gal pal, Paris (who I think secretly yearns to be best buds with Rory) is now a regular on the show. The 2 of them showed up at the "Rebuild For Tomorrow" house building activity, and Rory came with a homemade pink-furry hammer, courtesy of mom. (Hee hee). Rory's new obsession is trying to catch up to Paris' huge number of extracurricular activities. But Rory is so far behind, that, as she puts it, "I need to find a retarded kid and teach him how to play softball". Nice.

While Gilmore Girls is one of my absolute favorite shows, and I never have anything bad to say about it, I have to admit that this was SO not the season finale I thought I was gonna get. Don't get me wrong, it was a great episode, but just not a season finale.

Well, Rachel finally left town, cuz she realized that Luke is totally in love with Loralei (even though he refuses to admit it). Tristan asked Rory to go see PJ Harvey with him, but she said no. But since Tristan is such slimeball, he went and told Paris (who LOVES him) that he and Rory were gonna go together. So, Paris and her friends have now resorted back to calling Rory by that awful nickname, "Mary", this time as in "typhoid Mary" (last time it was "virgin Mary"). Paris is so mean I can't take her sometimes. But things finally turned around for Rory in the end, cuz her ex-boyfriend, cutie-pie Dean, drove up to her school, and then Rory said she loved him!!! Yeah!!!

Meanwhile, Loralei was having her own awesome day as well. Max proposed to her, but it was over the phone (hello, LAME) so she didn't really consider it and kind of blew it off. She was like "When you do this, I want to be surrounded by 1,000 daises", so don't' do this now. And Luke was spending all his time at Loralei's house, always finding random things to fix, so her can be around her. At one point, Max showed up to take he on a date, and when Loralei introduced them, they were both sizing each other up… it was adorable. Extra cute, was Luke leaving is toolbox at her house, so he can come back and see her again.

But the next day, when Loralei showed up at the Inn, what did she find waiting for her…. a room covered in exactly 1,000 daises, just liked she told Max. AAWWWW!! (It was totally a la Pretty Woman when Vivian said she wanted a knight and a white horse and a prince to climb up and rescue her.) And then when she called Max, he asked her to marry him again, but said he wanted her to think about it and he'd get her answer later. How awesome is that!! I know it looks like Loralei is gonna marry Max, but I don't know… something is telling me not to count Luke out of it, even though he's gonna need to be a LOT more aggressive to even make a dent at this point. So the season ended with Rory and Loralei running towards each other, both so excited to tell the other one their news… what a damn fine show!