Honeymooning, Part II

                                  Image stolen from Knitknacks.

I had hoped to have wedding pictures to post by now, but so far this is the only one. I still haven't figured out how to steal photos from people's Kodak galleries, so this'll have to do. At least it's a good one, and the bride, of course, looks incredible.

Hawaii was great. Snorkeling, hiking, kayaking, breakfast in bed, great sushi, rum drinks by the pool, and at least one incredible sunset. Jenna and I couldn't believe it was our vacation, matched luggage and all. It sort of felt like we won a gameshow.

Tonight we leave for Alaska, said luggage repacked with an extreme change of clothes. It's rainy in Anchorage with temps dipping into the 30s at night, but Janice and Mike have promised plenty of hiking and cookies and milk to stay warm. Jenna's never been, and I'm excited to return, 10 years after my first wonderful, eye opening travel experience to a place that felt truly other.

Blogging will continue to be sporadic, but I do hope you'll check back from time to time. Thanks for reading!

Honeymooning

The Morning After

It will come as no surprise that as soon as the high and the exhaustion began to wear off, Jenna and I have fallen straight into debriefing the whole wedding weekend. By the rings on our fingers and the unparalleled afterglow in our hearts, the verdict is that the whole experience was a smashing success. Undoubtedly, the highlight for both of us was to see so many of our close friends and loved ones in such close proximity to one another, with many opportunities to meet each other and learn what we love about you all.

We leave tomorrow for Hawaii, and so we are busy repacking our bags to leave the mountains. On behalf of us both, thank you for your love, your support and your presence this weekend (and all the sweet loot!). We literally could not have had this wedding without all of you.

It will be some days before we see pictures from the photographer, so we hope those of you who brought your cameras this weekend will forward pictures to us at our emails (jennafarley@hotmail.com; mattplav@gmail.com ). We'll get a selection of them up on this blog as soon as possible for everybody to share.

Here, finally, is the poem Jenna commissioned for the wedding. It was all I could do not to publish it last week. Please enjoy, and, once again, thank you.