http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/stef/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from stef en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:42:50 +0000 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:42:50 +0000 Actually it's mine. Unlike Aussie weddings where you sign the registry papers during the church service it's a Dominican custom to do this in a government office about two weeks beforehand. The significance of the event is juxtaposed against the normalness of meeting some registry lady in an ordinary office in the city and signing some papers.... So one midweek morning we get up dress casually w http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-146633.html Before church http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-146636.html the church service. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-146640.html the reception http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-146646.html after the reception http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-147111.html the honeymoon http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Samana/blog-147117.html we rented this little 1 br apartment in gosport st and it came fully furnished with stuff from a friend of a friend who needed a place to leave his brand new furniture http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Cronulla/blog-147254.html hannah and pauls big day and i got to be the wedding photographer... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Darlinghurst/blog-147543.html a couple of days hanging out in the city http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-147532.html Taking a 7hr drive long weekend trip down to Tamworth for the North West Bible Conference. En un viaje de 7 horas en un fin de semana largo hacia un pueblo que se ... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Tamworth/blog-147540.html capcana we took a day trip out to one of those famously beautiful carribean beaches for an awesomely fun day with mixed weather... capcana hicimos un viaje de un dia a una de esas fabulasamente hermosas playas caribenias para pasar un dia increible de clima mezclado... http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Bonao/blog-126595.html So I haven't updated this site in the longest time like about 8 months and all I have to say for it is.... whooohooooo marriage is GREAT God is very good to put us together to partner with each other for this life. I definitely consider myself a very blessed man and when people ask me how we met I like tell them that I won my wife in the lottery haha. OK so here goes a bit of a pictorial ru http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-111820.html the green card took me to orlando where i lived and worked up until march... unfortunately the whole time was pretty unpleasant culminating with the engineering company i worked for firing me because i asked for 3 weeks off to get married.... anyway this officially ends my green card american experience i'm off to get married and then its back down under whooohoooo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Orlando/blog-57981.html another little trip I took down to the Dominican Republic to be with Aned resulted in some more interesting and often obscure cultural observations http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/blog-40778.html Well there's no prizes for guessing at what comes shortly after she says yes http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/blog-34695.html the ralphinator was at the end of a few weeks snowboarding holiday with matt and decided to finish off with a few intense days over in the city that never sleeps I had such an awesome weekend Joel from New Jersey dropped in as did my resident Italian friend Mr Jason Grossi We were active the whole time Go Go Go Harder Harder Harder hehe http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-38143.html I have just had the most amazing and awesome last few days of my life This past weekend I proposed to my gorgeous spanish senorita in the Carribean and she said YES Some people win the lottery and its money or a car or something else but I won the lottery in order to meet this amazing girl Literally The green card which I won took me to the USA back in January but I had decided it wasnrsqu http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/Ciudad-Colonial/blog-29613.html What is going on Weren't you just down there not too long ago What's the attraction Why do you keep going back to the Carribean Well after I received my first pay check from the new job it was the Labor Day long weekend and well to put it not so clearly Romeo has a continued strong incentive... http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/blog-19304.html Just north of Tampa on the serene Gulf of Mexico on the western coast of Florida is where some wonderfully hospitable Philippino friends of mine live and I when I moved up from the Carribean to look for a job in America I stayed with them... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Tampa/blog-17794.html more photos here... http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Santo-Domingo/blog-12954.html