Wedding: ETA 96 hours 1

With just four days to go until our wedding things are slightly hectic. The person making our cake isn’t any more – she sent us an email ages ago but it didn’t get through, so we didn’t find out until last week. So as well as making seating plans, picking up relatives from the airport (my parents and Liz and Becky flew in yesterday), checking who actually is coming, shopping for artificial flowers (we’ll have real ones too), picking up some logs from a farm to make aisle markers from (whatever they are), working out our vows, meeting up with the photographer (she just called), deciding whether to drive or fly to our honeymoon (two days of driving, with the convenience of having a car all week, or two hours flying but having to use public transport all week?), and one or two other things, we’re also having to try to find someone who’ll make a cake in a week.

But at least we now have somewhere to live after we get back from the honeymoon. I found a website (www.sublet.com) where there were a couple of girls looking for someone to rent their apartment while they’re on holiday in Peru for the two months we need somewhere to live. It’s in a really nice part of downtown, it includes high speed internet (which I need for work), is decorated really nicely and the rent is good. The day before I’d prayed we’d find somewhere to live the next day, and it was the first place I found and is perfect for us, so that was a great answer to prayer.

The picture, by the way, was taken when I was driving over to the farm to pick up the logs, and the sky looked really cool. We occasionally get thunderstorms and heavy showers, but they don’t usually last for more than an hour or so and then the rest of the day is really hot. Although that does encourage the mosquitoes. I got bitten forty times in ten minutes a few weeks ago, so now I cover myself in DEET before I leave the house, and have only been bitten twice since.