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The weekend is over and I'm disappointed that it is because I really had a great time in the vacation home we had because it was fabulous. It had a private pool and hot tub, game room, movie theater and wonderful accommodations. It was so nice that we didn't want to go to the parks and would prefer to stay at the house. When we did peel ourselves away from the vacation home, we went to Epcot for Food & Wine festival. This was my second year at Food & Wine and the food was good, but not terrific. I tasted some interesting dishes (including more escargot!) and it was a nice time. In addition we went to the Halloween party at the Magic Kingdom, which was pretty crowded. Evidently these parties are not great for Saturday nights but we all had a good time there. I'd post photos, but we have none because we forgot our camera at the vacation home. Evidently the vacation home was messing with my memory. Along with a lot of chocolate and candy, I also came home with a large blister on my right foot which still hurts.

This week should finally be slow and I'm excited. For the past 3-4 weeks, I've been super busy with wedding, honeymoon and friends over these past few weeks so I'm actually looking forward to doing, well, nothing. I just want to go home, turn on the TV or computer and veg out! Speaking of veg out, I am so unmotivated to go work out. I am really forcing myself to keep at it because I'm happy with the progress I had made with working out and I need to get back into the swing of it because since the wedding, I haven't exercised as much as I would have liked and I really like fitting into anything in my closet.

So evidently while I was on my honeymoon, the car dealer we bought our car from went out of business. Should I be worried?

As promised, here is our honeymoon photos!

This makes me giggle.

Song of the Day: Jimmy Wayne - Do You Believe Me Now

As promised, I wanted to quickly talk about our honeymoon. The cruise was quite nice and we had a great time. I had a fear that Marissa might get sea sick on our cruise and because it was her first cruise, I didn't want to take a chance so we got her Bonine to take. The problem was it made her kind of sleepy so after 2 days, she stopped taking it and lo and behold....she didn't yak! Our stops along the cruise were a lot fun generally. Labadee was nice, albeit sort of rainy (and we love labadoozees); Jamaica was beautiful at our Sandals beach break excursion; Grand Cayman was too expensive; I think we both want to move to Cozumel because that's how much we loved it here.

We had a very relaxing and fun time on the cruise and had some fun moments. In Jamaica we were in the ocean and I lost my wedding ring. It fell off but luckily for us, we stopped moving, looked down and saw the ring on the ocean floor and were able to get it back. We were very, very lucky. There was also sushi on the cruise so every evening at 6:30 we descended upon the Windjammer Cafe to eat that every day and it's little things like that that made the trip. Marissa has set up a photo sharing account but as Crystal has already pointed out, I've done the husbandly thing and forgotten how to login so once I figure out how to link to our photos, I'll post a link here to see them.

Luckily for me it's already Thursday! I'm looking forward to the weekend already to completely catch up on sleep and some friends are coming into town this weekend so all the more reason that this should be a fun time this weekend. Besides, who really doesn't look forward to the weekend regardless of how many days one actually worked that week?

Weird things I've found since returning home from wedding/honeymoon:
Used socks from the bowling alley that we payed $2.50 per pair for from my bachelor party
Photos from my bachelor party that I don't remember taking

Song of the Day: Goo Goo Dolls - Without you here

I'm back! Back from getting married, going on my cruise honeymoon and going to Disney World for a few days. I wont attempt to write about the entire nearly 2 week escapade but will touch upon the highlights. I don't know where to start, so perhaps it might be best to try at the beginning. First, the bachelor party. We started out bowling and had a great time there with me, John, Ben and Brian. Brian was the designated driver and the rest of us drank a lot of beer. I bowled perhaps the worst bowling of my life (and I wasn't really drunk) but we had a great time eating and bowling. After bowling, we drove back and after almost stopping at a strip club, we went to a bar near my apartment. At this bar, we got absolutely descheveled. Basically there was a lot of drinking and I somehow drunkily walked home and then blacked out.

The day before the wedding we had our rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and special fireworks event. It all went very nicely I thought and we all had a great time. The rehearsal dinner was at Trails End at Fort Wilderness and despite our group of about 40 being overly loud, and taking up a lot of space, things went well and I think everyone enjoyed their time there. The food was good and it was great seeing a lot of my family there. It's often said to guests "it's great you could come" and I honeslty felt that way about everyone who was there because it means a lot to see family members fly down and celebrate with us.

The actual wedding day was the easiest day for some reason. After waking up and going to have breakfast with my parents, I had very little to do until the actual wedding ceremony. I went home and played games and watched TV for most of the day until I had to get ready for the wedding and it put my nerves at ease. People would ask me if I was nervous and I was without a doubt not nervous at all. I think those who get nervous haven't really thought out the entire getting married idea but I was ready for it. The wedding ceremony was set to go perfectly until....it rained. It rained before the ceremony and delayed the start but then we were thinking we'd be fine. Well, about 5 minutes into the ceremony it rained....and rained....and rained. We managed to finish the ceremony and "get out of dodge" and it was fine. Everyone told me all these reasons why a rainy wedding is a good thing but I really didn't care. The ceremony was done with and we were married and that's all that mattered. It went by so fast and was so easy for me that I was really surprised. I was paranoid I'd start crying or get really nervous right before the ceremony but I was perfectly content.

The party was a lot of fun and everyone really had a good time. Even my sisters danced, which I've never seen happen at any family function (kind of scary, really). The whole thing flew by and I couldn't believe it was over when it was over.

Blah, I'm tired of writing about this stuff for now so more later (maybe). In the meantime, I'm back and my updates should resume on a daily basis. I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and getting my life back in order from 2 weeks of vacationing. I miss my friends and plain old lounging around.

Song of the Day: Kelly Clarkson - Maybe

Today marks one week until I go on my 7 night cruise into the Caribbean and I think this will be an amazing trip. We're both really excited about it and I can't wait to go spend that time with Marissa on the ship. It's going to be a great time and it's so weird that it's almost here!

Unlike yesterday, I was quite busy today and hardly in the apartment. Between all of the little errands and things I had to do, I didn't get back into the apartment to actually relax until about 4pm so now I'm taking it easy for the rest of the evening. One of the errands I had to do was pick up a jar full of green chili from Garcias. A friend from New Mexico is in town and graciously brought it to me so I can't wait to have that for dinner tonight (and tomorrow unless I can't help myself from eating it all tonight).

Last night we went out to dinner with Josh, Sarah and Erin and I think it was fun. The food was good and not terribly expensive and it was nice being out with everyone again. What tends to happen is time goes by between seeing our friends and I forgot how much fun it is to get out and do something. After dinner Glenn joined us and he, I and Josh and Sarah wanted to go to a bar so we tried out the bar at the Sheraton Safari hotel. It wasn't a bad place and the bartender was a nice guy. There was this one guy there that was completely belligerently drunk although he kept his distance from us so it was amusing. We had a few beers and had a good time talking about lots of different things.

Well, my green chili is calling to me like Aztec gold to pirates so I must be going to stuff my face with awesome chili.

Song of the Day: Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the night