134 – The Day You’ve All Been Waiting For

We of course have some more photos from this day, but I’ll just give you a few that I took myself (I didn’t take many today, I left that to the professionals!   lol).  Dan and I were married today at the Santa Barbara Courthouse.  A LOVELY building.  Thankfully the rain held off long enough to let us have our day.

I made the last pre-marital breakfast.  It was quite good, if I do say so myself… and “I do”.

awww yeah...

And then we skip right on to the evening… lol  This is the first self portrait of Dan and I together after we’re married. 

*heart*

I wasn’t expecting that we would actually get a cake.  Thankfully through the luck/love/support of Dan’s parents and one of his dad’s assistants, we got a cake made for us as a gift.   It was super yummy, and we even got to keep the decorations afterwards!  And yes, we saved a piece. 

yummy!!!

133 – Bou

It’s been an interesting task to figure out what to do about my bouquet.  I thought about fresh flowers, and had a plan, then discovered a Michael’s in town, and after 2 trips, and one bouquet which ended up not being used, we settled on this one.  I really like it!  We bought the flowers separately, and some ribbon and a glue gun.  My mom helped me put it together, and did most of the hard work actually.  lol  I am glad I can keep them afterwards, and I think they look great.    We finished them just in time,

some flowers don't die!

132 – Out and About

We managed to get a nice day of sunshine in amongst all the rain and stormy forecasts.  Dan’s dad took us on quite a tour around town, which was quite neat.

yes indeed, we're walkin'

I don’t know how my mom’s pic turned out, but I’m sure it was great.  We were at Franceschi Park, which has a great view of the city.

view of a view

We were driving around for a bit, and I had to ‘rest’ briefly.  lol  We went into the Four Season Biltmore Hotel… very fancy.  I felt a little out of place.  This was part off the bathroom.  lol

wash your hands with this!

This is Dan walking down the bath in front of the hotel to a nice entrance to the beach.

too bad this isn't our front yard

This is a view of the beach just down the path that Dan’s on.

calm looking mighty ocean

131 – Floral Cocoa

Today my mom, Dan’s mom and I went to an orchid farm in town here.  Dan’s mom took me there last year when I was here visiting for the first time.  It’s really neat.  To be honest, I had no idea orchids could be like this.  They aren’t like this where I’m from.  lol  My mom was amazed too. 

so many colours!

I liked the two toned ones.  We were actually able to get one, thanks to Dan’s mom and his cousins in Holland, as a wedding present.    This isn’t the one we got, but it’s still nice.  lol

is it white, is it pink, is it yellow!?

We went out to dinner tonight, and I got this yummy hot chocolate!  I love when hot chocolates come out like this.

yum

130 – Welcomes

My parents arrived today!  They’re in California for the wedding mostly, and also to drive their car back home to Canada.  lol  They’re only here for a week, and it’s supposed to rain the entire time, except today when they arrive.  At least they got to fly in on a nice sunset.  I took this pic at the airport.

We went to the Granada Theatre in the evening to see the Peking Acrobats.  SUPER cool.  I’d recommend it to anyone. Seriously amazing.  Couldn’t take pics of that of course, but you can find some info here: http://www.iaipresentations.com/

129 – Bling

Dan’s ring arrived today.  He ordered it online (not what I would’ve recommended, but I’ll give him credit for saving money that way… lol).  He slyly opened it and tried it on.  You don’t get to see him wearing it until we’re married. 

sneaky

128 – Preps

We used most of today to get ready for the wedding in one fashion or another.  First  necessary step, get a marriage license, of course!

To do this we went to the Hall of Records at the Santa Barbara Courthouse.  Lots of things are recorded here.  Including several celebrity marriages.  lol

we're recorded!

This is Dan in front of the courthouse.  lol

woot!

I was going to take another pic, and told Dan to look worried.  So he did.  We LOLed and a lady was walking by and she LOLed too, cause she heard me say that.  She liked that we were taking pics of it I think.

uh oh... it's getting all 'officially' and stuff

Our original plan to get married on the beach was going out the window, so we had to look around for alternate spots.  We found a couple we liked, including Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens.  Beautiful place, with turtles!  lol  and ducks, etc.  Much more to it than what’s just in this pic too.

pretteh

This sign made me LOL kinda. It was indeed sunny…

in case you wondered

We also went to another place, kinda closer to the beach, but not on it.  It wasn’t all that great.  But it had an interesting fountain.

Dan is dwarfed

Then I dwarfed a palm tree!

mini

And then we figured we’d go for a walk, and came across a past along the beach that had a landslide.  lol  It was all fenced off, and you can sort of see that the path leads to nowhere.

oops

And then we ended up back at the apartment with a random cat at the door…  LOL  unfortunately he had started to go down the stairs by the time I got my camera, but I was able to lure him back upstairs, but then he rain off down the hall… haha  I should explain that we don’t really have ‘hallways’ at our apartment building.  It’s all outdoors, and long balconies and such.  So he’s just a stray that goes around the grounds.  Dan’s seen him before apparently, but this is our first meeting.  lol

sorry, no cheezburgers..

127 – Isolation

FINALLY we are connected again to the outside world.  After 5 days, plus the 5 days on the road, plus another week of being quite hectic with holidays and packing and moving… it’s been a little crazy.  Now we get to catch up on a few things, like bill paying, and general online things (like facebook!), and researching certain things, and preparing for our wedding!  oye…

*cheer*

126 – Connection

For a few days now, this has been our main connection to the outside world.  Dan’s iPhone.  It’s been very frustrating.  Our cable company screwed up, multiple times… Thankfully, somewhat, we’ve been too busy with organizing, and shopping, and unpacking, repeat, to really miss it much.  Other than the to-do list for things that need done online, is really growing.

a Pod, not a Pad

Mini-Hiatus

The first few days we were here were actually quite rough for a variety of personal reasons, and no, not ‘homesickness’ or something lame like that.  Anyways, it didn’t even cross my mind to pick up the camera and take a photo.  Thus, I have nothing to post for Jan 9th, 10th, and 11th.  There may have been something on Dan’s camera, or phone, but I don’t know.  I will continue with day 126 on Jan 12th.

Hopefully the recent multiple photo posts make up for that.