Greetings from the middle of nowhere!  Yup, we found a working internet-hooked up computer here at our hotel.  We arrived early yesterday morning and it has been absolutely glorious since arriving.  The water here is sooo blue it looks surreal.  Earlier today, we indulged in a wonderful spa treatment at the Manea Spa at the hotel and wandered around town a bit.  In a few moments, we’re going to jump on the boat shuttle to go onto the main island to watch the dance finale for the Polynesian Heritage Festival here—should be fun!  It is absolute paradise here and we are incredibly happy and in bliss.  In any case, just wanted to drop a note to say hello!

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Over the weekend, Matt and I finally decided on our honeymoon…..and it’s Tahiti!  We’ll be spending 5 nights in Bora Bora:

 

   Then we head over to Moorea….      We can’t wait—it’ll be total relaxation and lots of opportunities to go snorkeling, scuba diving and island exploring!

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Quite productive this last weekend.  Saturday, we headed over to meet with Bonnie of New Renaissance Cakes to finalize the design and flavors of the cake.  We went over a few inspiration designs and finally settled on this one with a few tweaks:

We’ve picked 2 flavors for the time being: Fine Dark Belgian Chocolate (triple chocolate with chocolate ganache and Belgian chocolate mousse) and Bananas Foster (banana cake with smooth caramel and dark run-caramel mousse).  I may switch out the Bananas Foster to a lighter flavor, such as Citron (white satin cake with English-style lemon curd, homemade with fresh eggs, sweet cream-butter, lemon zest and filled with lemon mousse) or Raspberry White Satin (white cake soaked in homemade raspberry liqueur topped with white chocolate raspberry mousse).  So hard to decide!  Let me know what you think!

We also finalized the invitations after several rounds with Jonathan and Whitney from Brown Sugar Designs.  I don’t have any pictures of the final mockups but I’ll post them soon–they’re a simple pocketfold design with inserts and I’m planning on buying a bunch of ivory-colored Chinese frog buttons to use as the closure on the outside of the pocketfold.  Next–need to buy a calligraphy pen and attempt to learn a bit of calligraphy for addressing the invitations.

This month, we need to get started on the registry!  Definitely Macy’s and Crate & Barrel..hopefully we’ll get around to it this weekend.

Been also narrowing down the honeymoon choices.  Right now, it’s between Belize and Tahiti.  They’re both equi-distant from Seattle and only 2 timezones away each.  Belize has beautiful, white, sandy beaches, superb diving (the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world next to Australia), lots of “huts on stilts” sort of accommodations, excellent food, pretty affordable.  Tahiti is a honeymooner’s paradise with a ton of over-the-water bungalows, clear waters, home of the large manta ray, luxury accommodations and July is the month-long celebration of Tahitian culture.  So hard to decide!

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