One Week At Home
What a week it’s been. We flew back from San Juan and our Honeymoon cruise last Tuesday night, had a wonderful (if tiring) day at home getting things straightened out on Wednesday (we capped it off by buying a shelving system for our closet at IKEA; dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory), Jessica drove all over creation getting her name changed on Thursday, and then awoke with a fever on Friday morning (it was supposed to be her first day back at school, and on top of that I wasn’t feeling great either). Close to a week later, I think we’re finally close to 90% recovered.
In retrospect it’s been a pretty good week, if a bit pressed for time. We get home around 5-6pm and go to bed around 9pm so the alarm can go off at an astonishing 5:15am.
On Tuesday we planned out our meals for the rest of the week and went grocery shopping to buy the ingredients. Tonight we’ll have leftovers for the first time ever (leftover wedding cake doesn’t count), and I’m oddly looking forward to it. Leftovers mean we get to have good food, but we don’t have to do any work to prepare it! Funny how this same concept wasn’t quite so appetizing when I was growing up.
I’m slowly uploading photos from our Honeymoon to Flickr. You can check this set to see what’s up so far — only through Day 1 in San Juan as of this writing. If you’re wondering, we had a lovely Honeymoon together. There were some rough spots (getting rooked in Dominica, for one), but our “Junior Suite” on the cruise ship was absolutely fabulous (as was our stewardess Yasmina). It gave us a nice place to relax on our own, something that’s at a premium on a ship of X-thousand tourists. We visited the beautiful beach of Trunk Bay in St. John, walked over a lofty suspension bridge in a Dominican rain forest, and had a killer spinach and sausage calzone in San Juan, but the best part of the honeymoon was being able to spend so much time together.