April 16, 2011 - OUR WEDDING DAY!
In a nutshell, I think Alicia and I both agree that it was perfect! Our wedding was created by Amorology Weddings and held at Leo Carrillo Ranch. Our photographer, Trever Hoehne, and videographers, NR3, were there to capture our special day. If you're on Facebook, then you have probably already seen some of the photos and the video as well. Since pictures are worth a thousand words and I'm sure videos are worth a billion, I'll let them speak for themselves. Take a look at our wedding highlights video here A + A Highlights Video. That day was truly the happiest day of our life! Surrounded by family and close friends we celebrated our love for each other and had, as my grandpa put it, "That was some party!" We enjoyed delicious food from Crown Point Catering and Sweet Cheeks Bakery, as we danced the night away.
The wedding festivities continued the next morning at a local buffet breakfast in Carlsbad, CA at Ocean House, we had a great turn out and enjoyed a quieter time with family and friends as we again, stuffed our faces with delicious food!
Shortly thereafter, the next day in fact, we hopped on an airplane and left for our exotic honeymoon destination! Turks and Caicos Islands. The Islands of Turks and Caicos are located southwest of the Bahamas and north of the Dominican Republic. It was no easy flight on the way over! We took a red eye from LAX to Charlotte, NC where we literally flew through, well, maybe next to, a lighting storm. I even woke Alicia up so she could see. All I could think about was that scene from the twilight zone... Anyways, we landed in North Carolina and that airport is interesting, I wish I took a picture of it but in addition to standard airport seating there were white wooden rocking chairs located throughout the concourses.
We stayed at Gansevoort which was really amazing! I've never stayed at a hotel quite like it before. We stayed on the island for ten days! Such a relaxing and well needed/ well deserved vacation. There were days where we literally stayed on the beach for eight hours and just slept, swam, and ate. The hotel staff was really kind, we enjoyed how each waiter thought the drink of the day was something else... Quite entertaining after a few "drunken lobsters." (our drink of choice).
Although, as beautiful and relaxing as the TCI (Turks and Caicos Islands) are, we quickly learned how expensive it was to get around and not to mention get food in our stomachs! To put a meal into perspective, a lunch or dinner would easily, and I mean easily cost you $100 for two people! Towards the end of our stay we found a little indoor/outdoor restaurant called the "Tiki Hut" awesome place, real food, affordable prices - we ate there several times more before we left. I'm all for gourmet food but after meal after meal after meal of parmesan crusted this and seared that and fillet of whatever with a side of haricots verts... I just wanted a regular normal cheeseburger! ...so naturally our first meal after landing at LAX was Del Taco. Love that place.
Sadly, vacations and honeymoon's don't last forever (side note: they would if I would have won that mega million's a few weeks ago...that's a funny story by the way*) Anyways. After returning from TCI we picked up right where we left off, working.
*Remember when that mega millions was like $300,000,000+? Well of course we had to play! I was determined to let the universe play a part. So I did what any other person would do, went and had Chinese food for lunch - not for the purpose of chow mein and orange chicken, but to get a fortune cookie! I wish I remembered exactly what the fortune read but it was something along the lines of "Looks aren't always what they seem" and of course there were the lucky numbers below. Now interestingly enough, as I was reading the fortune it ripped in half and it just to happen to rip right between the number "14" (which some of you know is my favorite number) so of course this was a sign!!! I quickly went and got tickets, creating some with the powerball number with "1's" and "4's"... When we were at the chevron, I asked Alicia "Hey, what if we played the lost numbers?" We shared a laugh, but couldn't remember them for the life of us... Come to find out, that little joke would have scored us like $100 bucks or something. Oh well. Haven't played since...
Well, I can see this initial blog entry is getting a bit long... If you're still with me, awesome! We'll try our best to keep this blog updated. We started at April 16 and with the honeymoon we're caught up to April 27! There isn't much more to catch up on though...
- Patti's (Alicia's sister) baby shower
- Alicia accepts a new job position
- Kelvin's High school graduation
- Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival
K, I'll blog later!
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