Married Life

We have settled in pretty well by now. Not a whole lot has actually changed seeing as we were not "traditional" and chose to live together before we were married.
 So I am already used to the Christian way of things, as is he with mine.
A LOT has happened in the past two months, let's recap:


THE WEDDING- May 28, 2011
It was a great weekend! All our family was in town for the BIG event, including 18 people from Christian's Family who came all the way from Germany to celebrate. 
Of course there were hic-ups, but when you have someone as "controlling" as me plan a wedding for 13 months, even these hic-ups had a plan:) 
We cried, laughed, danced and ate! It was an AMAZING night, and as much as I tried to just stretch it out and make it last, it just FLEW by...

 the crying part, recovering by a laugh :)

 Kisses and LOVE

Posing with MOM and Aunt in-between dances

June 4th- Stefan (little Brother in law) Graduated High School, and most of the Germans went home the next day

June 6th- We left for the honeymoon to JAMAICA

the happy newlyweds, it took lots of arm twisting and bribing to get C to wear this shirt!!

Goats were everywhere! Wondering through the streets and countryside, and somehow they managed to say out of the way of busses and cars. They belonged to people, and would graze where-ever they pleased during the day and then go home at dark.  

we went Zip-lining 

views at the Hotel 

This is Michael (next to C). Michael was the head chief at the resort where we were staying, and became a special friend of ours. We kept running into Michael at the resort and kept exchanging conversations, about where we are from, how was the food, what did we think about all the rain etc.
 I was always prodding Michael to tell me about himself, there was just something about his BIG smile that drew me in.
Finally, He told me about everywhere he had/ has been a chief, good bosses and bad ones and finally his family. Michael has two kids a 12yr old daughter and a 8yr old Autistic son. It was on this connection that Michael and I bonded. 

Michael took us into town to see the REAL Jamaica. We had to meet him off property to catch a taxi, if the resort saw us with the staff, it would have been trouble for him. 
He took us to: 
*eat Juci Patties, the affordable fast food of Jamaica *his barber
*his dentist (b/c he needed to make an appointment)
*the furniture shop for new and reclaimed/ used things- this is where we understood how poor and         sad the economy is. And where I felt horrible about spending money on stupid things to take home. But isn't this the case when you visit any country of this same stature. SIGH<

We went to the market where he shops, but it was a wednesday, so it was empty, except a few local venders. Michael explained how is was always packed on weekends when everyone came from all the surrounding towns to do theirs weeks worth of shopping. The market had everything from food, to clothes and cell phones.

Different local fruits. We actually had fun trying out new things! Some were VERY interesting looking, including the Jack fruit (bottom right).

More to come soon, have to stop for tonight...