Summer & Married!

Thank you all who came to enjoy our wedding day with us! It couldn't have been more perfect and to our family and friends, thank you for supporting us with this monumental step in our lives.

We can't call out our favorite highlight of the evening, but like most, the fireworks and dancing seemed to be the hit of the night. We only have so many pictures floating around of this day because everyone said they were just having too much fun instead of taking photos. We agreed!

It has been now three weeks and lots have happened and also not :( One is thank you notes, our bad truly, we had to sort through our goodies and our mission is to complete that on our way up north to the Velasquez family reunion this Saturday!

We did enjoy a few days after the wedding up north outside Duluth at Black Bear Casino. We love that place and gambling, I ended up being the bread winner that weekend (it helped pay rent at the studio I'm at :) We took our first wild ride together as husband and wife on our first day, we road on the new Alpine Slide at Spirit Mountain! It was awesome and its was a beautiful day with the quite the view coming up the slide, see pictures below. We dined in Duluth twice enjoying two very different places, but with Lake Superior as our view. We enjoyed indulging and took up suggestions from my cousin's wife, Muggs for one of the tasty places.

Even though we have not taken our official honeymoon we've made plans to travel to Europe next year just as summer begins. We're looking to start in Amsterdam, stop in Germany to visit my cousin and her family, Italy, Monaco, Spain (Barcelona), France (Paris), and last London, England. Mark hasn't traveled internationally and I have, but not to all of these countries, and I cannot wait to travel together for two weeks!!

Our main concentration on our honeymoon is staying cities with less tourist attractions (though we may stay in one or two). We both enjoy watching travel shows together when we watch T.V. and now that we've seen some places off the map, were ready to indulge in the european culture. To prepare for our excursion Mark and I said Spanish is our next mission. For one its my native language and it is secondary in the states now, so we will take courses to improve our speaking skills.

Now that its near fall we're gearing up for football season and no #4 will not be discussed here ;)We've been hopeful that our Vikings season will be as glorious as it was last year! Its nice to be settled down a little more now as we were both pretty anxious with the post-wedding blues for the last few weeks. Right now were just anxious for our photos, as you saw we had two photographers, and I'm sure they have their work cut out for them with over 2,000 pictures taken!

We hope your enjoying this fall-like weather and give us a call we'd love to see our family and friends after this great celebration!

Love & Hugs,

Mark & Sara