Our European leg of the trip has been fantastic! We got to catch up with a few friends in London for a couple days, and we spent the last 5 days partying it up in Monaco at Fleur and Terry Shire's fanastic wedding. Beautiful place, great people, great food! The Irish contingency drank us under the table. We are glad we got married before them cause the wedding was hard to beat! Off to Aix-en-Provence today for a few days before heading back to London and then home. A Bientot!
Ok, a few friends who are appropriately connected to the digital membrane have compiled wedding pictures and posted them. Made me happy to look at them, here in St.Lucia, South Africa, a mere 13 days post facto. Lets hope for the same reaction 30 years down the line ;)
On a side note, we snuck up on some wildebeests, warthogs, Zebras, and Hippos just an hour ago, and saw a clasic orange glowing sunset behind an umbrella thorn tree in the St.Lucia esutary. Heading for the surf tomorrow.
Toms:
http://www.straightnochaser.org/gallery/pakenheimer
Trevors:
http://www.ctwaterfrontspecialists.com/images/trevor/charliekaren/
Well, lets see. We're married! Thats the big news. May 2nd, 2004. We had a beautiful ceremony, me and Karen had such a good time we didn't want it to end. But it ended, and we took a moon soaked ride in a limo to Half Moon bay, the beginning of our honeymoon, and we're about 2 hours away from jumping on a plane to London, Frankfurt, then Johannesburg South Africa. It should be an exhausting trip, but we're going to use our 7 hour lay over in Frankfurt to see some sights. More later....
till the wedding! How do I feel? Well, I am back and forth between being excited and feeling nervous. Even though we've been together and have been very committed to each other for the last 5 years, the forever-ness can seem quite scary. Actually, it's the fear of divorce that is more scary. It's quite normal to think and worry about things like that before you make such a big committment, isn't it? Anyhow, I think I am getting over the nervousness and becoming more excited!! Wedding planning is going alright. I am not really stressed, in fact, I will not allow this to stress me out. We're just going to keep focusing on the fun aspects :) Oh, but there is one thing that really does annoy me - why does everything have to cost so much more just because it's a wedding? I am going to start telling vendors that it's a birthday party instead.