The Wedding Dinner: a series of delicious events

What a beautiful night! We were treated to a lovely and veritably feast, courtesy of the Crandalls. The candle-lit dinner was further illuminated by the loving presence and comments of friends and family who attended. Thanks to everyone who made the night so memorable.

Here's Mollie reading an excerpt from the her wedding gift to us--a book of photos memories that we will cherish for years to come! The company was lovely, the toasts were heart-felt, the setting exquisite. It began to really sink in for me that night ( IT being the notion of being married. No, really, married).

Alex was a bit sore over the enthusiasm adopted by those who described how persistent he had to be in order to finally convince me to marry him. Evidently he had to cajole, blandish and eventually bewitch me into submission. Hehe..FALSE! I was utterly enchanted by him--seduced from the beginning (shh...nobody knows!).

Alia

Pictures!

A random Giant troll by the ski jump

Jam Session outside of Skien tonight

The fjord where we swam and jammed

A viking ship! And an Alia!

I think she wanted to pull out her sword in excitement.

The enormous ski jump above Oslo.

I wish I could convey how huge it was

From a distance, it looks tiny. It's not. And, it's pure awesome. I have the hugest desire to try jumping on one some day.

An interesting monolithic pillar. It is one rock, took 14 years to carve.

A very large garden.

Artsy with the pillar.

Cool sculptures from the same artist.

Alia likes this one. I think it's pretty funny.

A very famous little baby, everybody comes to this park and takes pictures with it. Not everyone grabs the hands *cough*, thank you Chinese tourists.

A view from Oslo of the ocean/fjord.

Alex

The first post!

Hi.

I know this is an awful first post, but I thought I should put something down before I just start posting pictures and random thoughts.

Alia and I are ecstatic to be engaged (and with each other, too!), and we wanted to write a blog to start chronicling our various deeds and adventures, which will undoubtedly bring a little ray of sunshine into your drab, dull lives. Assuming you bother to check our blog, of course.

We have both been working (periodically) on the story of how we met--from our own, individual perspectives. Well, I have, at least. Alia's story is more like "How Alex connived his way into an engagement with me". Side note: She told me to write the story as our perspective as the protagonist.....I wonder who the antagonist is supposed to be.....hmm.

Anyway, that is still forthcoming. We are hard at work on it, I swear. All the little blog elves have been pulling extra shifts to write it.

Regardless, I wanted to post pictures of our trip in Scandinavia. I couldn't do that, however, to a blank blog, so here I am, busting this thing out and fulfilling my post quota for at least the next couple months.

I hope you are all absolutely riveted...like the Titanic. What an awful pun.

Alex