Our own Wizzard of OZ

We are sitting hear at 40,000 feet humming along threw the atmosphere on our final destination of this 15 day tornado of an adventure that has taken us from our home in Fort Collins, to Wyoming to get married, Mexico to honeymoon, and finally to our OZ for the year that is Berlin Germany.

To recap the wedding with only words is impossible for me. I am not a good enough writer to recap the emotion and energy that existed in Wyoming for those four days. If you were there you probably have an idea of what I am talking about but for those of you that were not I am sorry you missed it. All I can say is that it was the most intense, emotion filled, inspiring thing I have ever been apart of let alone been the center of. Erin and I really wanted to spend as much time with our friends and family so we decided to make the wedding a four day event. Wednesday night started with a ladies camp out and a “men meet and machine gun night” hosted by my new family at a cabin with a shooting range that over looks the tower. I am not much of a hunter but I really enjoyed myself and it was great to get to hang out with Erin’s family a little more. Thursday 30-40 people enjoyed the ski boat that Erin’s brothers brought out all the way from Wyoming (the wedding would not have been the same with out all there help) it was a great event they helped pull off and I think everyone had a great time. Later that night we went to a town in South Dakota called Deadwood. It’s a interesting town that has a ton of history to it if you can look past all the gambling and T-shirt shops. By Friday my whole family had made the journey from as far away as Paraguay and I wanted to spend some time with them. So we hung out, walked around Devils Tower, and had some lunch at one of the two places to eat in Hullett. It's always nice to be surrounded by family. One of the coolest parts about the wedding is if I wanted to see one them all I had to do was go to a small hotel in a sleepy town in Wyoming to hang out with them. That is a convince that I really enjoyed and one that made it hard when the wedding was over. I love my life in Colorado and could not imagine another way to live it, but it is very hard being so far from family especially when each and everyone has something that I could learn from and something that I miss when they are gone. To my family members thanks for coming all the way out there the wedding would not of been half what it was with out you. It means more then you know.

Saturday July 21^st was the big day. It was a truly unforgettable experience coming down to the wedding site and seeing all of our friends and family in one spot. Then it got crazier when I saw my new wife get our of her fathers truck and walk toward me. It really felt like a dream.

Some how Erin talked me into flying off to Mexico 2 days after we got married and 6 days before we moved to Germany. Thank god she did!! It was great to have 4 days of sleep and sun with my new wife. We flew into Cozumel Mexico on Monday and did nothing but eat, sleep, snorkel, and drink fruity drinks.

And now onto our latest adventure. My new wife and I are moving to Berlin Germany so that she can teach something (I wish I could be more clear, but we really don’t know what she is going to be teaching.) We land in Berlin in about 6 hours so hopefully we will find out soon.

No one would ever make the mistake of calling me a city person, but I am going to give it my best shot for the next little while. I plan on taking classes while I am over there, traveling with Erin, and finding some kind of work. I already have some very promising leads and am confident something will pop up, because they always do!

So an update:
We landed safe and sound. We are going to be staying at our friends Katie and Bobs house for a couple of days because we can't get into the flat we have been paying for since the 16th. Not a big deal most of our stuff got here (my bike plus tools are somewhere between Denver and Germany).
If you want to check out pics of the wedding go to
www.nhews.net
Click on erin and patricks wedding. Type in your email address (they will not send you anything) then click on wedding at the top.
There are 31 pages so get comfortable!
We have a phone number that I will pass out as soon as we get into our house
Other then that not much is new. It will be nice to not move around for a while and get our bearings as a new married couple in another country.
Hope this finds everyone well and I already miss you.
Patrick

My first Blog

(Erin still working on wedding stuff)

Wow I am really growing up; not only did we get our marriage license today, a joint checking account, but now I have my own blog. What's a Blog anyway?

The plan is to use this Blog to keep everyone updated with the game of "were in the world are Erin and Patrick" that we are going to be playing over the next year. Right now we are in the planning and packing stages of the game. There are a million little details that are consuming our minds right now that it's hard to think about what we are going to be going threw in the next couple of weeks, months, years, and decades.

The moments that I do sit down and think WOW! Erin and I are getting married are not filled with nerves or apprehension, but with the thought of dam Erin and I are two very lucky people to have so many people coming to our wedding. Not the kind of luck were you find a dollar on the ground, but the kind of luck that leaves you wondering what you did to be so fortunate to know these people. How crazy is it that we have over 150 people flying from all point on the globe to gather in a beautiful field in Wyoming. Erin and I are beyond words with respect and gratitude that everyone is going to be sharing our wedding day with us.

I hope my first update finds you all doing well and getting ready for our big day!

(The garage that our whole life is going into)