Nerves

Here's me working on my vows before the wedding - just before the pre-wedding party started.

We've reviewed the wedding and determined it was the most fun ever. We're working on thank you notes for so many wonderful gifts/favors/etc... We're also finding places for some of the new things we've got - like beautiful Fiesta dishes - and some of the not-so-new things we're moving out to make room.

We leave for our honeymoon on Saturday - 14 days in California!

• August 7: Arrive in California, visit UCLA, grocery store, drive to Oxnard.
• August 8-10: Take a 9 a.m. ferry to Channel Islands National Park! We're going to hike, set up our awesome hammock, camp and pretend that we're on Lost. We go back to the mainland on August 10. We'll quickly head to eat, shower and sleep in a non-tent space - the Kon Tiki Inn.
  
• August 11: Lounge and enjoy the coast.
• August 12: Visit the Hearst Castle and set up camp near the coast at a state park.
  
• August 13-14: We'll camp but also drive to the towns along the coast, see redwoods and visit a farmer market festival of some sort. Excited for all the produce in California!
• August 15: Head north to the 17-mile drive, Monterey and its aquarium. Should be beautiful.
• August 16-18: Napa - wineries, dinners, cool doors, tastings, wine farm fun. My parents gave me a good guide to Napa - can't wait to sip some fresh(?) wine and use my adjective card to describe it.
• August 19-21: Drop off the rental car and venture into San Francisco. We're seeing an Oakland A's game and otherwise just strolling and bumming around the city. We hear it's pretty awesome. On Saturday we head back to Chicago - yikes!

We'll post from the road, too - using our sweet new iPad! We're skipping Yosemite and trying to make this adventurous and relaxing. That sounds like a tall order but I think my husband and I can handle it. Yay!