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A Good Day, in Two Parts

Part One: The fitting took all of 10 minutes. I put the dress on, it fit perfectly down to the hem, and the only thing I need the seamstress to do is put in the single-loop overbustle. At the cost of a whopping $10. Woot!

Part Two: We *finallly* booked the honeymoon. I sat Jason down with the laptop and his credit card and made him look at travel web sites. We decided on Hotwire.com, and we got our airfare (round-trip out of Austin), a rental car for five days, and five nights in the W Hotel New Orleans for a whopping $1100. We made out like bandits. More money to spend on the jazz brunch at Court of Two Sisters and the Creole Queen jazz dinner cruise. Boo-yah!

Factoid

In Babylon 4,000 years ago, it was the accepted practice that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead that he could drink. Mead is a honey beer. Because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month. (better known today as the honeymoon).

-info via Leia

Costa Rica!

Wasn't sure I ever posted our finalized honeymoon plans, so here they are: J & I are booked to go to the lovely Central American country of Costa Rica with Costa Rica tours.

We will get to do all sorts of things - we'll stay here in San Jose, here near the volcano, here in the Moteverde Cloud Forest (bottom photo) and a few nights here at an amazing resort where we will snorkle and J will get to deep sea fish. (top photo)

Going to a beachy locale for your honeymoon? Be sure to leave your mark. And leave it, and leave it, and leave it...