Wedding Day!

Well, you know the world is changing when you blog on your Wedding Day…and from your Honeymoon as well.

As it turns out, she, who will be my wife later today, is getting an “emergency” massage to remedy some neck pain that she’s developed in the last couple of days. Hopefully, she’ll come back cured and won’t be distracted during the festivities later in the day.

I sit here in Hanalei at a Java Kai which is more or less a Starbucks. This is the first Internet access I’ve had since leaving on Friday and so I’m catching up on a few things. I must say that this is the way to get married — on the beach in a beautiful locale. Highly recommended if you have the means.

But while all is going smooth now, it did not start out that way. On Friday, we made it to the airport just fine and filed up to board First Class. As we were about to provide our boarding pass, we were held back by a VIP. It was none other than Samuel L. Jackson! And of course, he sat in First Class right along with us. Sounds smooth enough so far, but we were delayed close to an hour on the ground while a circuit board was replaced in the cockpit. And since we had only a brief layover in Oahu, this threatened the second leg of our trip.

The flight went very smooth. I mostly read and Suzanne watched a movie and read her Harry Potter book. Along the way, we continued to observe Samuel L. with intrigue. He was traveling with a body guard and the two hardly spoke. He did dig out a script and read that for quite some time — the script looked very stereotypical as it was type-written in Courier font and bounded with brads. This is just the way I imagine scripts to be. Otherwise, he slept for a bit and listened to his iPod. I would have loved to have known what was on his Playlist.

Upon landing in Oahu, we rushed to catch our connecting flight. We were successful and we landed on time. However, our bags didn’t catch up with us for about an hour an half or so. In that time, we picked up our rental and waited at the airport. Our bags were a bit more important this trip since they were carrying wedding stuff.

With our bags packed away in the rental car, we made our way to the north side of the island which was about a one hour drive. We ate dinner at Bubba’s Burgers and then walked across the street to get the key to our rental house. We were to punch in a code and access our key using the after-hours drop box. Unfortunately, the key was not in there!! Thankfully, our cell phones had service this trip and we quickly summoned somebody using the emergency number. We got the key and successfully found our place.

So on Saturday, our first full day, we shopped for a while in Hanalei since we had to be there to finalize our marriage certificate. Later in the afternoon we went to Tunnels beach for a couple of hours before calling it a day.

On Sunday, we went to Queen’s Bath and Hideaways Beach. Entry into each requires a bit of a hike, so that was a bit challenging for us — well, more challenging than walking down a beach, I guess. Queen’s Bath was amazing this year. Last year, it was inaccessible due to high tide. This year we were able to get in and really enjoy it. As extras this year, we saw several turtles and a large school of dolphins swim by.

And that brings us to today. We had thought we were going to get married on Tunnels Beach, however our wedding consultant urged us to scout another location. So we checked out one of her suggestions today and we are getting married there instead. It figures to be beautiful and hopefully I’ll have pictures later in the week.

I am adding pictures to my Flickr account and some random ones are pictured below:

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