honeymoon update un - thats french for one

kia orana! this will be short as we are using a french keyboard and the letters arent where we expect them.

So far fantastic. Pearl Beach resort and overwater bungelow were just what we were hoping for. Amazing view and unreal water. Who knew the colors werent photoshopped. We are snorkeling fiends and have seen lots of fish. Most outrageous was swimming with sharks. (dont tell our parents); today, in Moorea we are swimming with dolphins. Then we are scuba diving in the lagoon and then in the ocean for more sharks! The best part so far was that after we swam with the sharks and then fed sting rays and went to a coral garden, our guide made us a bbq over the water. amazing. He made steak, chicken, mahi mahi, shrimp, lobster, potatoes, and vegetables. We were on a private uninhabited motu. Really amazing. unbelievable view.

Miss all of you. If D could let us know if the cats are destroying the condo that would be great.

More later when we can type faster.

Gettting all moony

So, here is the first blog of the honeymoon. We have safely arrived in LA and are doing some serious lying around at our friends apartment watching the Alias and LOST episodes we had missed, anxiously awaiting the day we get Tivo. We leave for the islands tomorrow night.

Well, all that sugar eating and frankly everything eating has caught up with me. I felt terrible today, and I dont think last nights gyros helped at all. But man do I love a gyro. I think having Budackis so close is not going to be a good thing.

In the mad dash before we left Chicago we did manage to get the condo in a somewhat reasonable state for the Swinger. Not quite what I would have wanted, but I seriously worked on it from 8am til I passed out for days. So I guess I got done all I could. It is not going to be fun to come back to that mess. Oh the boxes. And the LDG, well, I have no idea how that is going to go. I think that as long as the swinger scoops enough, we should be ok. Heres hoping.

And just some final wedding thoughts, I am happy to say that the whole thing doesnt occur as a blur. Thats so great. And as I kept rambling about, I really really enjoyed the ceremony. While the details of that may fade as the years go by, I dont think the emotion that was created ever will. It really was everything we had wanted, and in no small part was that because everyone in attendance joined us in the mood we were creating. We couldnt be more appreciative of that. So thank you, thank you, thank you!

The Oompas have left the building

In case anyone out there was freaking as much as I was in solidarity with me, rest assured, they have moved the event to another bar in the resort. Apparently they used to do this and cancelled it because it was a flop so they had some serious pull in asking for it to be moved.(Its on a sunday after a full weekend of Oktoberfest activities.) Phew!

In other news, if anyone was expecting to come to the resort with Iron Chef Chicago on Saturday, please notify me immediately. He found a ride and is cancelling the car if no one needs a ride.

And in the best news EVER, muchachomama arranged for a masseuse to come to my apartment today to give me a massage. That woman has some serious matron of honor skills. Damn.

Now, where was that ulcer again? Oh there it is.

So, in addition to coordinating the closing on the condo, and all the other wedding stuff that you are all probably sick of hearing about, we just found out that the resort JUST PLANNED an Ocktoberfest in the bar next to where our ceremony is. WITH AN OOMPA BAND! So while we are trying to have the most significant day of our lives and a sacred event people will be yelling and screaming right outside and being drunk idiots. You might not be able to hear the original music that Michael Strening Jr wrote over the oompa band. To say we are pissed would be the understatement of the year. The resort planner Robert is frantically trying to get them to move the event. We are frantically working on a backup location, and just how much of everything we want comped due to how wildly inconvenient this is. Because really, if this isnt perfect after all we have done to get it that way, we are going to be livid. Now of course, nothing is ever perfect, but an oompa band and yelling drunks? Not within the acceptable realm of not perfect.