I forgot to say earlier that Spectrum Sound is the worst DJ ever.

For those of you dying to know.... here's what we mostly did on our honeymoon:

We stayed at the Forgotten in Time Cabins in Derby, which is about a mile away from the highway deep in woods. When we got there on Sunday afternoon we were greeted with a refrigerator full of food and drinks thanks to cousin Eric and Teresa (Mt. Dew, yum)! There was also a basket of goodies from cousin Valerie. Very thoughtful. We grilled out dinner and spent some time on the lake/pond thing.

The next morning we had a really great breakfast and then went down a small path to the creek that feeds into the Ohio river. We took the provided canoe down the creek and saw so many fish, it was nuts! We made it to the river, which was about a mile and a half trip. Chris wanted to go canoeing in the river, but not me. I didn't want to get swept away into the Mississippi or anything, which would probably have been impossible. When we got back, we went swimming in the lake- well, Chris swam, I floated on a raft. Our lunch plans were to drive to Leavenworth and eat at the Overlook restaraunt. Turns out it was a big drive, but worth it. Eating lunch overlooking the river was a lot of fun. We decided to keep driving, and ended up at Marengo cave. We took a short 1/2 mile cave tour,which was fine with me (we were wearing shorts).

We were going to keep driving, but I was ready to head back, we had a lot of driving to do back. We saw a sign that said "Buzzards Roost" which we were interested in seeing. We took the side road and drove and drove and drove.

Buzzards Roost was a tiny little roadside park that you could almost make out the river through the trees. We got out of the car and saw a path. There was a sign that said it was a 1/2 mile trail. There wasn't much trail to it, mostly making your way down rocks. It winded down a hill and cliffs and ended up right on the river. We looked around the river for a while for arrowheads (weeeee!) and I found a few small pieces of flint. Some people boating thought we were stranded. We went back up up up the hill and drove on to the cabin.

After a bit of relaxing and feeding the HUGE grass carp in the lake we cleaned up and decided to have dinner at Rocky Point marina. This was going to be the highlight of the day, but they weren't open on Monday. They said to come back Wednesday (not possible). So we drove into Tell City and ate at the Patio. Chris had only the dessert bar and I had the salad bar. Then back to the cabin.

The next day we got up and watched some tv then packed it up to go back to Terre Haute. All in all, it was a relaxing few days. I'm looking forward to a vacation next year where we can go some place without so many bugs. :)

I've added a pic of us at the bottom of Buzzard's Roost, which I guess you could call it "buzzard's bottom"

So I don't think I can say the wedding went off without a hitch. Chris' niece single handedly ruined the one part of the ceremony that I was most looking forward to. She showed up just in time to even see the wedding, and was supposed to sing. First of all, she didn't think she could sing the song that was picked out, so I think she was mentally against it. The song was "I Need You" By LeAnn Rimes. Not a hard song. She couldn't get the microphone to work (this is because she didn't test it) and ended up blowing the whole thing. It took everything I had to not lunge and strangle her. Seriously.
Then Chris' mom apparently got a phone call on her cell !?!?!?!? WTF?! She kept saying "someone answer the phone!" (She has Alzheimer's, so not sure if the phone was in her head or in reality)
Then the version of the Lord's Prayer in the Church of Christ is not the same as the Catholic version, which I have to tell you, 90% of the congregation that day was. It sort of petered out in the middle and ended up everyone mumbling some sort of ending.
The reception was fine...except the DJ was a big piece of shit that had no brain. The guy I dealt with at the DJ place said "don't worry, everything will be taken care of...." NOT! Huge Uuuuughhh! Chris' son decided to pout the entire time because he wasn't the center of attention, but you know, I didn't really care about that.

Everything else was beautiful and wonderful. :) I hope everyone that went had a good time. I know I did! I don't ever plan on doing it again, so I think we did it in style!

Okay people! Less than one week before the wedding and it's all ready to go. If I hear anyone bitching about anything I will ignore them for the rest of the weekend and possibly for the rest of my life.

Members of the wedding party: It is your responsibility to keep everyone happy. We will not discuss Chris' parents not coming because they are crotchety old people. We will not discuss why certain things are placed the way they are. Just deal with it and be happy and have fun.

Guests: Do not complain about the food, the drive, the heat, the cold, the music, the decorations, the ANYTHING. If you do- I will set one of my thugs to tell you how it is going to be. We have a place for people like you- you know who you are- the people who have nothing nice to say about anything and can only be happy when upset- the place for your type is the hotel, grumbling to yourselves, because no one wants to hear you.

To my parents: Thank you for everything and I appreciate everything! Don't forget to pay attention to me!

To my sisters: Thank you for throwing me a beautiful shower and for doing everything how I imagined. I love you two and am happy to call you my sisters.:)Don't forget to pay attention to me!

Love you all bunches and I hope everyone has a good time! If not, pretend you are for my sake!!