Long time, No Blog...

Sorry everyone. Things have been a little hectic here. As some of you have heard, our wedding photography/videography company has scammed us. They have shut their doors and despite it being nearly 10 months since the wedding we still don't have an album or video to show for it. SO, in the past few days we've been working really hard to get in touch with our photographer, congressmen, bankruptcy courts, and even the FBI. Luckily, this evening, my photographer rang me back and she thinks that she has our digital media. She was actually on vacation in PA, but wanted to call me back as soon as possible. She says that she backed up everything she did in 2007, and is 99.9% sure that she's got it but will call me back later in the week to let me know for sure! Unfortunately, she didn't think that my videographer would have anything backed up as it would just be too much for them to store.

The scam that the photography company ran, went far beyond our little St. Patty's Day event. At this point there are over 500 couples signed on to the yahoo groups website, and when speaking with one of their vendors yesterday, Mike found out that they did over 2000 weddings per year. Sadly, Kim and Al are in the same spot as us. We both contracted with them within days of each other. Kim doesn't even have her englargements! There are couples from 2006 that still don't have their proofs! I suppose we're among the lucky ones as we've got our proofs and enlargements we ordered. Honestly, this really is the kind of thing that people only hear about it bridal magazine columns! It doesn't ever really happen!

Other than this debacle, we've been very busy here. Mike is smack dab in the middle to busy season, which means he gets home around 8! Hahaha! My memory of US busy season is that Mike came home well past midnight most nights! This passed weekend, we went to visit everyone in Oxford. We stayed at my Uncle Mick's house overnight and my cousin's brought us around the city. We went to the first pub in England and out for dinner. They showed me all of my mom's old haunts and where she used to go dancing! On Sunday on the way to the bus station, Uncle Mick showed us the house where they grew up and all of their schools and where my mom used to work. It was really a jam packed weekend! I'm posting some pictures here.

Again, this weekend we off and running. Since it's Mike's birthday on Friday, we're going to Disneyland Paris to celebrate his last year in his 20s...I figure at 30 it's all downhill and really time for us to start growing up! We're staying at the DreamCastle Hotel and have 2 day park hopper tickets. It should be fun!

Since Mike peeked and almost saw his birthday present, he got it tonight (a couple days early). I got him a Wii. He's so excited, he's already setting it up. I got him Madden NFL, Zelda and Mario Party. Please note that US games will not work here, so please don't get him any! We can't even bring the system home with us, but I figured 18 months with it, and he'll probably be sick of it anyway. Then we'll just sell it.

Thats all for now, I'll try and be more timely with my blog updates.