Where oh where in Turkey should we go?

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Jeff and I are busy researching Turkey, trying to decide where exactly we want to go. There are so many exciting things to see and do… Eastern Turkey is all mountains and awesome hiking and cool sights…and Western Turkey is all beautiful sights, more hiking and fewer mountains…

 

So far, we want to see Istanbul, but beyond that, where to go?

 

Options include: Cappadocia/Goreme, Mt. Nemrut, Black Sea coast, Lycian Way (long hiking route), Gaziantep (home of baklava), Pamukkale, and more! Wow.

 

Possible activities include: hot air balloon ride, lots of hiking, lots of ruins – some of the best preserved of the ancient world, horse back riding through Cappadocia, more ruins, sea kayaking, sailing, tons of great food no matter where we go, hot springs, and of course, planes, trains and automobiles.

Snow!!

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We’re sort of snowed in today. Well, not exactly snowed in, but digging the cars out is a bit more than we want to tackle for our first quiet weekend in some time. We’re making some final tweaks to the website, so hopefully everyone loves the end results. 🙂 Please leave comments throughout the webpage! We want to hear what you have to say!

We’re finalizing details with our singer/performer – Jeff is handling that part, since he’s the music aficionado. I just listen to whatever is playing, mostly. Save the dates are back for a minor tweaking, then they should be going out.

By the way, have I mentioned that Char wants to show off her Irish dancing at the wedding? The only problem so far is that the song she chose to dance to (and we all love) has lyrics that are less than suited to a wedding. I believe the gist of the story is this English lady who leaves her lord to run off with the gypsies and tells her husband that she’s keeping this handsome stud over here in the gypsy camp and leaving his stuffy self. Sooo…we’re searching for another awesome song. Either that, or we’ll play Raggle Taggle Gypsy and hope none of you pay attention to the lyrics. 🙂

 

And on the 2nd day of planning, my true love gave to me, 2 musicians…

Webpage is almost live…

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We’re going to be sending out the save the date postcards very soon…invitations are selected, we have our DJ, location, groom’s cake is planned, dresses are ordered…all in all, plans are coming along extremely well. Giant kudos to Jeff’s mom and our wedding planner Marissa.

On the 1st day of planning, my true love gave to me…a glass of water and an Aleve…

 

 

Engagement Photos

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Engagement photos should be posted soon. We met with our wedding photographer and had a photo session today in the city. 🙂 Yeah! It was a bit chilly, to say the least, but with it being Chicago in the middle of winter, it could have been FAR worse. So we were very happy. I hope you enjoy them too, once we get them posted.

Our First Post!

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Simply a test of the emergency blogging system.

 

This is only a test.

 

Expect real content soon! =)