One Month-iversary

It’s hard to believe that it a month ago yesterday was Joe and my wedding day.  And what a great wedding it was.

Since then we have traveled to Italy, put away all the wedding gifts, written thank you notes (and sent most of them out… were bad).  We’ve already hosted  3 Friday game nights and made group effort tuna melts with the Perezes  (one of our favorite Tuesday night activities), gone to the 1st ever Denver fair and begun to  decorate the guest room.  

  

I was driving home from my fabulous new job today, and the weather was dark and chilly, with a crisp air smell.  It made me think of the holidays, and how quickly they are approaching.  {It’s my favorite time of year!}  Right when school starts for the kidos, the weather does funky things and you have a gut wrenching feeling that the next 6 months of your life are about to fly by faster than ever.  So I called the hubs and told him “Happy one-month anniversary, I feel like we are going to be an old married couple before we know it.”   

And I thought ‘Isn’t it great?’

How to Get to Tuscany

One of my favorite stories and least favorite moments of our trip to Italy was our journey to Tuscany.  Only to be surpassed by our journey back to the USA [that will come later].  

On July 14th Joe and I headed to the train station at 7 am to catch our train to Firenze (Folorence).  We took our seats and relaxed, thinking it would be a quick and calm hour and a half ride.  It was only after a few minutes that a rather ogreish Italian woman boarded the train and began yelling.  She walked up behind Joe and began to bang on the headrest of his chair.  [I would tell you what she was saying but it was all Italiano].  However, we were able to deduct that she wanted Joe's seat for herself. Being the nice guy that I fell in love with Joe moved seats after a few minutes of me arguing with the lady (ha).   After Joe scooched over a seat the ogre threw her newspaper down in Joes seat and then threw her backpack down in the seat across the isle and left the train.

It was at this point I thought to myself "this crazy lady just wants to sit by her friend! pffft"  Needless to say I grabbed her newspaper and moved it to her other chair.
Joe switched back to his assigned seat and I pulled out our tickets to show the woman when she returned that that was indeed our seat.  [I was Ready!]

Only a few minutes later did we hear her voice, once again yelling.  After a few minutes of back and forth about the seats, her mother [we assume] began to whine and complain in Italian about the chair as well.  However we noticed at this point that the old lady had an oxygen tank.  So we gave in and Joe moved over a seat.
 

After an hour and a half on the train we reached our stop in Firenze.  We asked the old woman to move so we could get off, grabbed our luggage and headed to the exit.  It was only as we approached the exit that the doors closed and the train began to move again...  You might be asking yourself, wait... they missed their stop? YES! we did!! ooooooh nooo.

I pretty much freaked out and asked a guy who worked on the train to stop the train:

Me: "Uh our hotel is in Firenze... we were supposed to get off back there. We were trying to get to the Doors"

Him: "You are Tardy, next stop is 30 minutes"
Me: WHAT?!?!?!

Fortunately for us, the man had the train stop 5 minutes later and unlocked the door for just us to get off in Firenze.  We got off somewhere strange, found a taxi {after and hour!}, and had it take us to the rental car agency.  While getting the rental car we got some minimal directions [Go Left, go right, go left, go right, go right, get on interstate, follow signs to Siena] to the city we were driving to and went on another adventure.

 We made it safely to San Gimigiano. 

 Once we got there we had to find out where our bed and breakfast was.  We found an Informational bulletin with a Map of the city, w00t w00t!!  We took a picture of the map so that we could follow it to get to our final destination.

 After driving around for a good hour and going the wrong way despite having such a wonderful map... we finally made it there at about 12:30 in the afternoon.   

Don't get to excited! 

We didn't.  

Turns out the bed and breakfast is closed from 12-3 pm. 

UGHHHHHHHHH lol.

At about 3 we finally got into our room and took naps before we headed back into town for dinner.  ZZzzzZzZz

To be continued...

Our Honeymoon Part 1:

Packing the Suitcase is always my least favorite part of vacation (and unpacking it...)

Its the stress of not knowing how many pairs of socks and underwear you REALLY need...

I don't know about other people but I always have anxiety going through airport security. Maybe its because I always set off the metal detector. Even when I'm wearing no shoes, tiny shorts and a tank top. Then they pull me aside get frisky with me and wonder why my feet and ankles always make the little wand beep, why does this happen to me??

Needless to say we did make it to Philidelphia from Denver. We waited 6 hours at the airport, charged our phones and laptops/my nook. and of course explored.

9 hours after boarding the plane in Phili we arrived at our 1st destination. Roma, Italy!
We did what any normal person might do when they arrive in Italy. We went straight to a restaurant to EAT!
We had pizza, Some fancy bread and a lovely little fruit dessert.
~~ It was delicious. ~~

That Night we walked around near our hotel, saw some beautiful buildings, laughed and cringed at the crazy drivers and ate a late dinner after it was dark. So far so good...

To be continued...

Our Wedding!

Very recently I got married to the most awesomest man alive!
I am still excited
Everyday I make it a point to say "Good morning Husband" or "Hello, Husband" ;)
I took a Que from Little Miss Momma and now I call him "The Hubs" (Thanks Ashley!)
People keep asking me how married life is... I say its the same.

But is it?

Actually I can confidently say,
(now that I've had almost 3 weeks to think about it) that I feel:
more secure,
safe,

more comfortable in my own home,

*where Joe and I have lived for 6 months before we were even married*.
How about that!?

~~~~~

We have some time to wait before we receive the wedding video or the professional photos. But luckily we had a fabulous photo-booth at the wedding and some guest who took great pictures for us.



Stay tuned for more pictures and details!