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We made it down Saturday around 3:00pm after leaving around midnight. I drove to Georgia while Jessica slept. around 7am we stopped for breakfast and switched so I could get some sleep. We were both getting excited the closer we got and decided to get off of the interstate about an hour north of the Hotel. After making our way through a sketchy neighborhood we hit A1A, the beach road.

Slowly making our way south,  looking at some amazing houses and catching glimpses of the turquoise water we arrived at our home for the next week. It is a neat little resort right across the street from the beach. Next to us, across the side street is a Ritz Carlton, with Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s parked alongside. Just past the Ritz are 3 blocks of bars and beach stores, most of which have 2 for 1 happy hours. 

 

Us at Nikki Marina

Us at Nikki Marina

 

 

Sunday we had brunch at Nikki Marina, a really nice place in Hollywood Fl. The food was amazing and the atmosphere was very relaxing. There was a 2 person band playing American and Latin music. We spent about 2 hours enjoying the food and listening to the music. Once we left on our way back we stopped in a Wal-Mart in Miami, something I would avoid in the future, people were everywhere, parking was a nightmare and we just got what we needed and left to find a regular grocery store. 

We stopped at this Liquor store to pick up some drinks for our room, and the guy was giving out samples of premixed Bacardi Mojito. We bought a bottle of the Mojito, and some Rum and were on our way. That evening we went out to LuLu’s Bait Shack and split an 84oz Fruit Punch Fishbowl. 

 

Jessica Finishing our Fishbowl

Jessica Finishing our Fishbowl

 

 

Today we enjoyed the crystal clear ocean, goofed off in the pool, walked around and did a little shopping. We saw a man fishing for Coconuts with a 30ft pole that had a hook on the end. It looked much harder than you would think. 

We are having a great time and enjoying having this time together.

Husband and Wife

What a Great time! Thanks to everyone who was able to make it. I have seen some photo’s trickling onto Facebook already(I will grab some to post here for those who don’t have a Facebook account). Jessica and I had a great time. We did our best to get around to talk to everyone, but I know I missed some people. Now we are back to work for a week then off to Ft Lauderdale. We are really excited to have that beach time, and relax together.

Although the wedding is over we are going to keep posting what we have been up to during our adventure through life together. We will be posting during our honeymoon when we have time and keeping everyone up to date with our lives.

Don’t worry as soon as we have the link to the Pictures it will be posted, and as soon as I get the video edited I will post that to. If you have any pictures from  the wedding we would love to see them, post a reply with the link to your photos. Thanks!

The Big Day

Today is it! we will be married in about four and a half hours. This morning has been very relaxing. Robbie, MacCord and I had a great breakfast at the Hotel, and I have been hanging out in the room the rest of the morning. It has been great seeing every one that is in town. I have been told Jessica is doing really good, her, Mia, and Holly are having Mimosa’s down the hall. 

Time to start getting ready. We will try and post tomorrow and let everyone sho could not make know how every thing went.

Check List

I have an ongoing list in my notebook with everything I need to do before the wedding. Every couple of weeks I have been rewriting it, then adding to my list. I had managed to get it down to about 13 items, yesterday I checked one off and added 5 more. This has been the trend with each of my previous lists but the list was longer to start with. I know I will get everything done, I am kind of glad that my hours have been cut right now because it gives me more time to get this stuff done.

Dancing

A couple weeks ago we went to Fred Astaire Dance studios in Va Beach. We had a great time at our complimentary dance lesson. Afterward we sat down with the instructor who tried to get us to sign up for $900 in dance lessons. The next day I ordered a DVD off of amazon for $25 including shipping.

Last night we cleared out a space upstairs to try and practice. We had enough room to try about 8 steps and that was it. We took advantage of what we had and feel very comfortable with the individual moves. We need more space to practice dancing to our song and being able to flow with the music. The front yard, which would be plenty of room, is out. The chances of us being carried off by mosquitoes is very high. My next thought was to get some sidewalk chalk, a measuring tape and going to the big parkinglot by my work, we can turn up a car stereo and map out a 24×24 ft square (the size of the dance floor at the Hilton) and practice. We should be out there this weekend if not sooner practising. I think it will work out.

We met with Rev. Keener today to talk about the ceremony. Everything went really well, we have some homework, we have to pick out two readings and a psalm. We also need to decide if/who we want to read, or if we want Rev Keener to read. We will get it figured out.

Counceling

Today we met with a nice lady at the Southside Counseling Center. Rev. Keener does not do Premarital counseling, and suggested this group in Chuckatuck. We had one 30 min session, and the stamp of approval. Much easier than a 6 week class and a book to read. After being together for as long as we have we get along great, we have developed ways to deal with conflict through talking and working it out.

Parties

Last weekend Jessica and I each had trips to take. I was off to Morgantown, West Virginia for my bachelors party, and Jessica was off to Pennsylvania for a bridal shower.

I had a blast with my buddies, it wasn’t until afterwords that I realized that 10 out of the 11 of us were in Boy Scouts, and 7 of us made Eagle. We went out in the evenings and Saturday we went Whitewater Rafting! It was cold but we had a great time. The guides were awesome, and I should have some pictures up on flickr by this weekend. I am very lucky to have such a great group of friends, you guys are the greatest.

Jessica’s shower went great, she really enjoyed spending time with her family. She went out to a bar to watch her cousin’s friends band while she was up there. She keeps telling I would like the band and we should get up there more to hang out with her family, which I agree. We had a GREAT time last summer at the winery concert that we went to.

Only 47 day left…

I can’t believe that there is only like 47 days left till the wedding. Well, we sent out most of the invitations the other day. The rest of them are finished. We should be sending them out tomorrow. I went Thursday to have my dress altered. So things are coming together but I can’t help but feel like we are running out of time.

Updates

This weekend we found our favor boxes, they are really great, look for them by the entrance to the reception hall. We are still figuring out exactly what to put in them, but we have some ideas.

Jessica picked up the Brides Maids gowns yesterday. Hopefully most of my guys have been for their tux fittings (if not you need to do it soon).

I picked up about half of the invitations yesterday and started trimming them out. I am going to work on the rest today and hopefully get most of them cut out today. Our goal is to have them in the mail by Monday April 6th. I feel like we can accomplish this, it will be a lot of work but it will be worth it. I love the paper! when you get the invite Let us know what you think.

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