Honeymoon - Day 3

Explore. We just explored the area. The beach, the spit, the river...we found all the popular areas and explored each. It was wonderful, but other than that, I don't have too much to share.  So just enjoy the photos.

Retired ferry landing outside Squamish.

Where the river meets the ocean. 

This is where tons of wind surfers usually are...but unfortunately not today.

Visiting the river.

We had to cross a back water area just to get to the river bank.  So cold, but worth it!

We found bear prints by the river bank.  Kam didn't tell me until we got back to to car that he was freaked out.

The color of the river was crazy!

Howe Sound on the Patio

Such a beautiful and amazing place in the world!  We may go grab some more gelato tonight, but I'm not sure yet. Tomorrow we will leave Howe Sound, but I'm not sure how picture filled that day will be. Hope everyone is enjoying these posts!  We can't wait until Whistler! 

Honeymoon - Day 2

Well, remember this picture from my previous post...

yeah, we hiked to the top of that today.  Wow, it was a serious hike.  So beautiful and unique, but crazy.  We hiked a little over 655 meters (just over 1200 feet) in a little over a mile.  Phew!  We took lots of breaks on the way up, but the way down we cruised right along.  Our legs were so shaky when we made it back to the car, my muscles were like jello.  But it was so worth it.  

We started that hike at 9am and were back in the room just before 1pm. We came back and just chilled for a while, then went to this cute little open air restaurant for a early dinner that we were recommended by a local guy.  It was right on the river, the color of the water was amazing!  I had some awesome fish tacos, shocking I know!  

Kam had a fantasy football draft at 7:15 with his Ames coworkers, so we decided to spend the evening in the pub down stairs so he could at least draft a few players.  We were already planning on spending a little time in the pub tonight so it just worked out.

No plans for tomorrow yet, but we booked some seriously fun stuff for Whistler today!

Where we started, Shannon Falls.

Kam climbing a set of one of many stairs.

We had to climb straight up on a ladder on the side of the rock wall.  We both mentioned how much our moms would love this.

This part was easier, no stairs, just a chain on a slightly steep rock.

But look at this view...

if you can't read that...."We're staying here"

Thats Kam at the top of the climbing ladder.

View from our early dinner.

My awesome fish taco!

The next two are from the bank of the river at dinner.

Kam getting his Fantasy Football draft on.  I won the sportsmanship award in his league for being on my honeymoon and letting him join the draft.  

View of the pub from our seats.

Not sure what tomorrow will bring yet, but I'll keep you posted!

Honeymoon - Day 1

Travel.  That's what we did.  We left Montesano at 9am and headed north shopping here and there along the way.  We crossed the border into Canada around 3 that afternoon.  Vancouver was huge, and I can't even imagine what rush hour traffic would be like in that city.  Lucky for us we only barely hit the beginning, so getting through wasn't too bad at all.

After getting through Vancouver, we kept traveling north on Highway 99 toward Squamish.  The road was beautiful, but unfortunately there were no pull outs on the north bound side of the road for us to grab any photos.  If we end up heading back the same way we came, I will take some then to share.

We arrived at Howe Sound Brewery just before 6, checked into our room and went for a nice cold brew, some wings and a bbq pork pizza (it had walnuts on it, heaven!).  Everything is made from scratch at the restaurant here, so we feel right at home. We weren't really feeling the beer last night, so we came back to the room and decided to go for a walk to see a little more of this small city.  I had mentioned maybe getting some ice cream and lucky me, there was a little gelato shop on our walk.

It was a pretty low key night, but just what we needed...some rest!

Awesome bridge heading into Vancouver.

Part of Vancouver, but not the main down town area.

View from our room. Squamish marina and Stawamus Cheif Providential Park.

Sweet little daybed lounge spot in our room.

See the hang glider?

Gelato? Yes please.

The news lady just said "aboot" on the tv.  Ah, Canada.  More to come!

Married.

So, the wedding has come and gone.  Everyday I thought about my original plan to make a small post every day through the whole process, logging away small memories and things we did, and the days came and went faster than I could even find time to open my laptop. Along with not finding any time to even open my computer, picking up my camera was almost as infrequent, but I did manage to grab a few shots everyday.  So I thought this first Wedding post I would share what we did Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Once I get my pictures back from my photographer (who ended up being the greatest Craigslist find on the planet), I will share the extravaganza of the wedding day, but that probably won't be until we get back from our honeymoon.  Save the best for last kind of thing.

Wednesday: Food
So we arrived at my parents house Tuesday night at about 11pm so we didn't get anything done that night.  The giant tent was already set up, so my mom had set up a little champagne toast under the tent for when we arrived.  It was really sweet, but unfortunately I have no pictures to share, just the memories for my parents and us.

Wed morning, Kam and I headed to the court house in Montesano to get our marriage license, then it was off to Costco and Winco to do some serious shopping.  No pictures that day either.

Thursday: Chop Chop Chop
LeeAnne (a loved family member with no title) was the first to arrive with large bowls and knives and her game face on.  Kam's mom Cathy came shortly after.  The four of us chopped massive amounts of broccoli, potatoes, celery, onions, cheese and everything else that went into the salads.  Kam and our dads volunteered to fry the bacon and sausage, which was done outside away from female supervision. I have to wonder how much less meat went into the salads and baked beans than was originally planned. We started about 9:00 am and finished around 5:30 pm.  About 160 burger patties were produced that day, as well as 160 hot dogs rammed onto sticks for the corn dogs (a big hit by the way). We also began the first parts of the decorating that night. I'm sure there was much more that went on that is escaping my memory right now, but needless to say, it was a productive day.

Friday: Treats 
Two of my favorite people that I like to call my sisterfriends came to help out.  They were the first to arrive with helping hands. Kam's mom and sister also helped in the sugar coated kitchen.  My mom spent friday as her last day in the flowers. We dipped, filled, frosted, sprinkled, and sampled.  Sugar rush city.  But the desserts came out beautiful.  Later that day my brother and his family arrived and helped with the decorating. Much more family and friends visited as well.

There are probably 100 details I missed from the first few days that other people would remember as their highlights.  Lots of funny moments and wonderful memories were made.  Thank you to everyone that helped out in pulling our wonderful wedding together.  I thanked everyone so many times that they all told me I wasn't allowed to thank them anymore.  Ha.  Once last time.  Here is a picture recap from those days (at least the few pictures that I got).

The lonely tent on Wednesday morning. You can see the table from our champagne toast the night before.

Thursday morning. Kam, LeeAnne, Cathy, my mom.

My mom made aprons for everyone that helped out.  Here she is wearing her's and the awesome baseball one she made for kam.

I love the steam around my dad and LeeAnne from the giant pot of boiling potatoes or noodles.

Burgers and soaking beans.

Dex decided to roll in poop on Wednesday, so he got himself a bath.

The sunflowers were so beautiful! 

My moms mixer that was older than I am, and has made many wedding cakes over the years finally died.  Heather (sisterfriend) was mixing up some frosting when it started smoking. All she could say was "don't tell mom!!!" But my mom was happy that its last wedding was mine!  It was really funny!

Friday night pizza!

Saturday morning decorating.

Hens and chicks for the tables.

One sneak peak of us in our wedding clothes.  It's the only good photo I have right now.

Next up...day one of our honeymoon. Hope you got the gist of the wedding prep.  It was so much fun, tiring and crazy, but so fun!!  

Fortune Friday

I have been saving this fortune for this particular friday, since I started Fortune Friday.  Tomorrow I am GETTING MARRIED!!  I couldn't think of a better fortune for this friday!