Wedding Blog

Why hello there, hive. It’s good to be back!

Look, it’s candy mice! Right in between candy swans and candy piglets! I saw these at a chocolate shop in Paris and couldn’t resist taking a picture.

Now that I’ve distracted you with cuteness, my recaps can officially begin! I’m going to start with our European honeymoon. Originally we wanted to go to Greece, but we decided it would be fun to throw in a few nights in Paris and then take a train through France and Italy, stopping in Milan for one night. After Milan, we flew to Greece, where we spent a week traveling to two islands and then finished up the trip in Athens.

The Dude and I brought our Flip video cameras that we purchased for the wedding along with us, in addition to a regular camera. So along with our photos, I will also be sharing at least one video per post with you guys. But you have to make it to the end of the post to get to the video(s)! OK, without further ado…

The day after our wedding, we filled up two giant backpacks, got in the car, and headed to Fort Worth. We were supposed to spend the night with the Dude’s cousin, but he forgot and somehow ended up in Oklahoma! So we got to stay at a beautiful hotel in downtown FW, the Ashton. We caught our flight the next day at DFW and spent the next 9 hours or so on a plane. We arrived in London around 8AM, and had to immediately catch our flight to Paris.

Once in Paris, we hopped on the train and took it all the way in to the city, near our hotel.

Here’s a picture of the Dude to show you just how jet lagged we were at this point.

We checked into our boutique hotel, freaked out over how beautiful our room was, and then proceeded to check our email on our room’s flat panel TV.

Yeah, we were pretty impressed by the Versace tile in the bathroom.

Even though the bed was so tempting, we rallied and headed over to the Eiffel Tower instead of taking what would have been a glorious nap. I had been to Paris before, and the Dude hadn’t. He convinced me to go up in the Eiffel Tower—something I had never done before—even though I was terrified.

On our way to the Eiffel Tower, something very bad and unexpected happened. My camera battery died! Unfortunately I have no more pictures of our first day in Paris, but I do have some video and a pretty cool story.

Here’s some video of the view from the glass elevator that took us to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

After we came back down, I needed something to revive me, so we headed over to a little cafe, Cafe Central, and we each had a glass of wine. We wandered around and found another sidewalk cafe for dinner, where I ordered the mussels and got a GIANT POT of mussels. I must have eaten at least 50 of them, and the bowl was still 3/4 full! At some point, it started to rain on us, so we moved inside and had dessert and espresso. By that, I mean the Dude had dessert and I had espresso.

Once the rain cleared up a bit, we tried to make it back to our hotel. Instead, we ended up getting lost on the windy streets and going in the opposite direction of our hotel. Then the sky opened up again, and we got caught in the (very cold) rain. We ducked into a doorway and huddled there for warmth, trying to look at our laminated map to figure our where we went wrong. I finally convinced the Dude that we should wait for a cab at the taxi stand. We hopped in the cab, got back to our hotel, and headed up to our room like two drowned (and very, very jet lagged) rats. Sleep was oh-so-good that night.

I’ll leave you with one last video.