Winter arrives

Perhaps the title of the previous post was a little premature. Last week's polite preview of winter was replaced this weekend by the real thing. The official start of winter is today, December 21, but it got a head start on Friday, when it started snowing at 2:00pm. Two feet of snow and two days later, it still hasn't stopped! Getting home from work on Friday was an adventure, with the bus schedules all thrown off and Kate's car getting stuck in the snow twice after she came to pick me up.

By Saturday it was only lightly snowing, so we decided to take this opportunity, with many people either shopping or heading out of town, to try cross-country skiing at Dartmouth. Since I had never tried it before, I figured the fewer witnesses the better!

Today is our six month wedding anniversary, and we plan to celebrate with admisisons file reading and a nice dinner while feeling thankful that we don't need to venture back out in the snow.

Winter Wonderland

"Snow, snow, snow, snow. It won't be long till we be there with snow."

--Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"

The above lyrics are sung while the main characters from the movie "White Christmas" are on a train heading for Vermont. Living close to Vermont as we do, and with the season's first big snowfall coming this past week, we thought it would be nice to go see Vermont with snow. It turns out that it is very charming.

First, we stopped at Quechee Gorge (right)

A nearby Vermont town, Woodstock, had its annual holiday festival, known as Wassail Weekend. We made the drive on Sunday afternoon to attend an event known as the Messiah Sing. It was a performance of Handel's Messiah, with the audience serving as the Chorus. Obviously folks have been attending this event for years, since many were very familiar with the choral parts. Kate and I mostly listened,

but enjoyed being a part of an area holiday tradition. Before the Messiah sing, we had some playtime on the Woodstock "green," which is of course made up of snow and ice this time of year (left)

It was not a great weekend for many in New Hampshire. The storm that brought the snow also brought ice and many downed trees. Over 200,000 people in New Hampshire were without power even through Sunday. Kate helped out a Red Cross shelter on Friday evening and remained "on call" for the rest of the weekend. Our prayers are definitely with those struggling to stay warm.

Our New Hampshire Christmas

Hey everyone!

Christmas time is here, and Kate and I are getting into the holiday spirit. After returning to New England from our Thanksgiving trip to Texas, we enjoyed decorating our first Christmas Tree as a married couple. We're very pleased with the results:


Also, we attended the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at Dartmouth this week. Fortunately it was not too cold, though it felt odd to us that it started at 5:15pm. That's what happens when it is dark by 4:30pm! The Dartmouth glee club, which happens to be under the direction of my boss's husband, provided Christmas carols, and I tried to capture a picture of the lighted tree with Dartmouth's signature Baker Tower in the background:

Kate and I hope you are enjoying the holiday season too!

the rest of October

Brian and I flew to Orlando last month, using my sister's employment at Disney World and Brian's work in FL as a mini-vacation. We spent 2 long day in the Parks, which were very crowded due in part to EPCOT's food and wine festival. It was a nice way to sample fun food. We enjoyed a character breakfast and relaxing on the resort beach. I returned home to cold weather, while Brian traveled through Florida's high schools.
I started a job (whoo-hoo), teaching gymnastics to 18mon-5 year olds 2 days a week. It is not much money or time, but it is fun, and nice to meet people. I am also babysitting and waiting to hear about RN jobs I interviewed for in Sept and Oct.

Fall Colors at Dartmouth

Hey everyone - Brian here for for what I guess is a rare post. My fall travels are coming to a close, so hopefully I can pop in more often. Suddenly it is late October, and the month featured some interesting travels for Kate and myself which will be the subject of future posts. For the time being, I just uploaded some more pictures from our first New Hampshire fall and thought I would add them to the blog. Hope you enjoy them, and that they give you a better sense of where we live.

Hanover at twilight

The trees in full color on the Dartmouth Green

Looking across the Dartmouth Green at an amazing sky near dusk

This is a picture of McNutt Hall, home to the Dartmouth Office of Admissions

Leaf Peepers

Our apartment has been busy lately, with 3 visitors in the past few weeks. Our friends Charlie and Sarah drove in from Boston for a weekend, and the cold did not stop our exploring. We went to Hanover and Dartmouth, of course, but also on a hike to a fire-tower in Vermont. With the fall colors nearing peak, it was gorgeous. There was much cheering for Vanderbilt that night, as they continued their winning season, and we felt as if we were back in Nashville when we whipped out Scrabble. It was so nice to see familiar faces!
As Brian headed to south Texas and Mexico, I enjoyed a visit from my mom and some warm weather. They went to Dartmouth and the fire-tower again, but it seemed so different in the sunshine, and the foliage hit the peak of color. There were fall festivals and tent sales abound, to take advantage of the “leaf peepers” from New York, New Jersey, Canada, and Europe. The small Vermont roads were packed! The visit was filled with hikes, shopping, old movies, and sorting through wedding photos. The small-town feel hit home at the tiny diner in town, only open until 2, where few items on the menu cost more than $4. The weekend was relaxing, but flew by!
Brian made it back safe and sound, and did not miss all the enjoyable weather and colors of Autumn before a trip to Florida. Taking advantage of my sister working at Disney World, we are leaving for a long weekend in Orlando before he starts his work commitments.
I have continued to search for a job, recently interviewing for a part-time position teaching pre-school gymnastics. The pediatric RN positions are trying my patience, dragging on the interviewing processes for weeks. This makes it impossible to make plans for holiday travels!

Get a Job, Nah nah nana , nah nana nana. . .

Kate with her sister and father at Disney

September has gone already! Brian is enjoying home time before his next trip, and I am busy with nursing things. I have been frustrated trying to get my RN and advanced nursing licenses in NH. They require a lot more than TN, and I have never had my advanced license and I am now pushing the time limit. Every requirement has a fee, and I had to go to Concord to get fingerprinted. It gave me a chance to browse the mall, just for a change of pace. It was amazing to see how much more colorful the leaves were at home compared to Concord, just 60 miles away.
I have been interviewing RN jobs in pediatrics. There is not likely that a PNP job will open up in the next few months, which is discouraging. Hopefully one of the RN positions will pan out. The interviewing processes are lengthy.
The weather has been very wet and cool, but we made it to the first Dartmouth home football game. We had free tickets and there was a staff tailgate. I don't know if it was the weather or just a lack of interest that kept the crowd sparse, but it was nothing like Vanderbilt. We only made it through half-time, when NH was crushing Dartmouth. The best part of the game was "the band." It was a small group of students, with mis-matched carnival hats and a ukelele. Humor took priority over musical talent, but there were not enough members to successfully execute either.
In our search for night-life and freinds, we learned:
1) Our Friendly's (grill and ice cream restaurant) has the worst service ever. We almost left before our food arrived!
2) Hanover does not allow more than 2 musicans to perform together without a permit, so most live performances are quiet guitar soloists.
3) Making new freinds it too much like dating. We are excited to have a nice conversation with anyone, but keep looking for our "in" - last names, emails, occiasions to meet again. It is like asking for a phone number to get a date!
4) We also have not met a lot of 24-35 year olds, even though there should be some for the grad school and staff at the hospital or college. I do see a lot of "townies" our age, but we do not share much on common! In our town, there are a lot of smokers, single parents, tatooed people in men's undershirts or ill-fitting bustiers. The older crowd is more friendly than the younger.

Brrrr! It is getting cool!

We had a full Labor Day weekend - we bought our first real furniture, a table and chairs. We are very excited about it. It is pretty and so much better than the folding table we were using before. We were even happier that it fit into Brian's Highlander, so we didn’t have to pay $80 for them to drive it 3 miles.

We went to Quechee, a touristy area just over the river, in Vermont. There is a gorge over 165 feet deep, and you can see it from the US-4 bridge or by hiking to the bottom. It was a wonderful end-of-summer day, and we were surprised by the number of sunbathers and divers in the flat. Granite rocks make pretty brooks, but are not pleasant for wading! There were stores full of local items - cheese, maple syrup, jams. We even played mini-golf.
We joined one of Brian’s co-workers for his birthday dinner, and it was nice to be social. We met more Dartmouth employees at a social hour one Thursday. It felt good to get away from setting up the apartment, and I even met a girl from Janesville, MN (where I have friends).

We finally have all the furniture we can fit, and we have stuff on the walls, so it feels like a real home. We have found creative storage solutions, as we have wall art, luggage, and folding chairs that do not easily fit into our closets!

We found more about the nightlife here - the good and the bad. The local pub has fun bands on the weekends (but not a lot of dancers). We have not yet tried the bowling alley and dance club, but apparently there is an exotic dance club in it! I guess this one business is trying to cover all possible customers in a single building.

Last week, we parted for 16 days. We have been married nearly three months, and apart for ¼ of it! Brian has been busy with recruiting and information events in Texas (it is hard keeping track of his location). He even got to the TCU football game through the rain, but it does look like Ike will cause Brian's trip to be cut short. Kate met her mom in Orlando, where sister Michelle is living while she interns at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. The first day there, her cousin Maggie from Boston joined us for dinner, as she was there with friends. Kate’s dad surprised his girls by joining them on Friday night. It was a great time - we hit all the parks and a water park and had a free day. It is odd, as Kate and Brian will go to Disney World in October when he is there for work.

Parting note - The town in Funny Farm has a strong resemblance to our new region. Hopefully, we never have that much trouble.

Hurricane Ike

For the last several days, our eyes had been nervously watching Hurricane Ike approach the Texas coast as a potentially catastrophic storm. Over the last 36 hours it became clear that Ike would strike the Upper Texas coast, and early this morning it made landfall directly over Galveston, TX. My parents reside in Friendswood, TX, a town about 25 miles to the northwest of Galveston. I've spoken to my parents early this morning and it appears that they and their house have avoided significant damage. They missed, perhaps by a margin as thin as a couple miles, the "worst" part of the storm as it ventured inland. Early reports indicate that the Houston/Galveston area was dealt a vicious blow by Ike, and that the area will awaken today with an extended recovery effort ahead. It may take several weeks just to fully restore power.

Thoughts and prayers for the people of Houston and Galveston, as well as any who are worried about friends and relatives from a distance.

Settling in

Okay, so it has been awhile since we added a post. The movers came 2 weeks ago, the same morning as the comcast guys. It was a bit crazy, but it all got set. Only 2 things were broken, and my car is quite scratched, but nothing missing. It was interesting trying to decide how ot unpack, as we had very little storage bins or furniture! We drove to Boston that weekend to go to Ikea. As it was a tax holiday, ads claimed Massachusetts to be New Hampshire for the weekend! Between the tax break and the college shoppers, it took us 4.5 hours and Ikea was out of some things. We saw familiar faces, meeting the Knutson and stopping by the Dougherty's (my Grandma et al.). We were happy to get to watch Olympics on a real TV (not poor Internet - sometimes it would skip over the most important parts) and organize all week. We spent the next weekend apart, with Brian at his 10 year High School reunion (he is so old) and me at my Grandma's and cousin Mary's. I went back to Ikea, and there were out of more stuff! But we are making good use of our gift cards on these trips.

Brian became an official resident, with driver's licence and all, but I could not get one until I changed my Social Security. This made me really excited, as I had spent hours at Social Security in TN, only to be told to change my licence first! Needless to say, I was ecstatic there was no wait at Social Security in NH, and am now officially Estrada. The Driver's license window in our town is only open a few days a week!

Oh, New England style hot dog bun are split on top. Wayyy better than normal.
We are debating whether we should join the co-op. It is pretty neat, like a tiny Whole Foods with very organic products, then a few mainstream items. I guess I thought it would be just for farmers, but we stopped by the Producer's Fair, and the stuff is good.

We went to the Lebanon Opera the day our stuff arrived. We saw the Magic Flute, by Mozart, and it took me awhile to see the English text. I was wondering why everyone was laughing at the German jokes. It was hard to decide what to wear to an event like that in a small town. The guy in front of me was definitely from the farm, with a clean checkered shirt and suspenders! Who knew there would be something like that in a small town, not associated with the college.

I had a meeting with the head of Primary Care Pediatrics at Dartmouth Hospital today. They are looking for a research nurse or NP, and may hire a clinical PNP soon. Let me know if you have experience in clinical research!

We have met some of our neighbors, mostly the elderly ones, but have not had too much opportunity to make friends, so I expect we will get lonely pretty soon. Maybe that will change if I get a job or we choose a church.
Enough of my random thoughts! Our wedding pictures are up, so email me for the link, if you are interested.

A week ends with the Olympics

My sense is that many newly started blogs quickly fall out of use once the initial excitement and flurry of posts fades and topics become harder to find. I have often found blogging to be a self-indulgent form of expression, with many people using blogs to write of their unimportant daily exploits as though they were news the world needed to hear. That said, we would like this blog to be a window into our New England lives for our far-flung family and friends who we won't get to see or talk to as much as we would like.

Let the self-indulgence begin. After starting my job and living at the Hanover Inn last week, and a weekend spent making our furniture-less apartment somewhat liveable until our stuff arrives, this week was a little more ordinary. I became acquainted with my fellow Orange Route bus riders on the Upper Valley's Advance Transit system, which is what I hope will be my primary method of commuting to work. The bus stop is about a 1/2 mile from our apartment, downhill in the morning and regretably uphill in the afternoon. We'll see how that walk goes in the winter months.

Kate flew back to Nashville in the middle of the week to be with the movers as they picked up the bulk of our stuff still in Tennessee. I know she enjoyed seeing her Nashville friends one more time. With her taking our one car to the airport, I lived a simple life for a couple of days, taking the bus to and from work and spending the evenings in a sparsely furnished apartment with no TV. I mainly watched Flight of the Conchords on my computer. Good show - thanks Dunning.

With no TV, we spent the week wondering how we would be able to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Being that it was anticipated to be the most watched television event in the history of the planet, we did not want to be left out. The solution turned out to be simple: Dartmouth. With many Dartmouth students taking classes during the summers, there was a watching party in which the ceremony broadcast was projected onto a large screen in one of the dining areas. We joined the crowd of 100 or so students and had a nice time. If you had asked either of us at the end of the 2004 Athens Olympics where we would be for the start of the 2008 Games, an Ivy League student center in Hanover, NH would not have been the obvious answer. The Ceremony was eye-opening and spectacular - ones politics or views on China aside, I felt as though I was watching a true achievement of the creative and artistic human spirit. The torch lighting was one of the most breathtaking events I've ever watched, surpassing the gold standard of the flaming arrow lighting the cauldron in Barcelona at the 1992 Games. I am glad Kate and I did not miss the show - or the party.

Where we live and the local rag

So, I was thinking that one question that may be on the minds of the faithful readers of our young blog is, "Where exactly do Brian and Kate live again?" Allow me to elaborate. My job is at Dartmouth College, which is located in the town of Hanover, NH (population 8,000 or so). Hanover, however, is part of a broader region of communities that surround the Connecticut River in both New Hampshire and Vermont. This region calls itself the Upper Valley, which is especially interesting to me since my parents hail from a region of Texas known locally as the Upper (Rio Grande) Valley. In any event, Kate and I have chosen to rent an apartment in an area known as West Lebanon, which is about 4 miles south of Hanover and the College. West Lebanon is not a real city; it is part of the municipality of Lebanon, the heart of which is about 3 miles to the east (making West Lebanon, well, west of Lebanon). We live less than a mile from a bridge that crosses the Connecticut River into White River Junction, Vermont.

As nice as Hanover is, a town of 8,000 would be tough to live in if it was not surrounded by some other communities. When you combine Hanover and Lebanon/West Lebanon in New Hampshire, and add to that towns such as Norwich and Hartford/White River Junction in Vermont, what you really have is a region of perhaps 50,000 or 60,000 people. This number of people means that in our vicinity we have the resources to support a population of that size. The highlights include several grocery stores, a bowling alley, Kohl's, Best Buy, Home Depot, Borders, JC Penney, Wal-Mart, and even a Panera Bread within 2 or 3 miles of our house. No Starbucks, unfortunately.

One community resource our area sports is the Valley News, a daily newspaper earnestly trying to report news in an area that teters on the edge of being able to generate enough news to fill a daily newspaper. Kate and I, wanting to learn as much about our new community as we can and also to learn about various happenings in the area, have picked up the Valley News several times. It has been helpful - for instance, we learned about a Farmers Market and a Town Square celebration over in Norwich, VT yesterday and were able to attend both. They were both delightful, and we now have some expensive, organically grown local produce in our fridge.

However, we've also seen some curious articles in the Valley News, such as the one about a local family's missing parrot (started on Section C, Page 1 and continued on page C5). Another nice article was the one about some heated exchanges on the Thetford, VT town list-serv (in the past year, three listserv administrators have resigned due to contentious cyber debate). Excellent stuff! The Valley News has a few too many AP stories for my taste, but does do a good weather forecast and, as mentioned above, has a thorough community calender. Small-town news gems like the two articles above are part of the fun of small-town living, and, while I don't think we'll become subscribers, Kate and I will certainly enjoy an occasional dose of the Valley News.

Hotel Life

Since Saturday, we have been living in a quaint inn on Dartmouth's campus. Brian enjoys the commute and he comes home for lunch every day. The room is old and cute, but not equipped for a week's stay. We were able to get a tiny fridge for the room, so we don't have to eat out for every meal. Our room is pretty full, as we have most of our belongings that fit in the car on our drive here. I don't think the maids are used to cleaning around rollerblades and filing bins! I think we know all the valets. We have not had any zany mishaps, like people who live in hotels on TV. We are able to use the college gym and I can walk everywhere in town (we have eaten almost everywhere in Hanover). We are really looking foward to having our own place for the first time, but we are worried about living in our apartment for 2 weeks without lights, furniture, etc. We are in for an adventure! Oh, and we are conflicted about our apartment - another unit in the same complex is availible, and we have a few hours to decide which one we want.

Hanover is a compact, well-preserved New England town gone upscale. There are several sitdown restaurants with "American fare," plus places serving Thai, Indian, Italian, and, of course, pizza and burritos. The town has everything one would need, as long as one does not need a McDonald's (Quizno's is the only fast food) or a place to buy reasonably priced clothes (the boutiques are quite pricey). Our new home, West Lebanon, is 4 miles from Hanover and includes all the big box shopping, supermarkets, and fast food in the area. We think we'll enjoy being close to all that, while still being near Hanover's charm. There are also many interesting villages in Vermont that we've heard about but not yet explored. Hanover has one of the best small libraries in the country, but it costs a lot for non-residents to get a card and unfortunately Dartmouth employees don't get the benefit (though students do). We'll make due with the Lebanon Public Library, plus Brian can borrow from Dartmouth's library system.

Road Trip

We set off Thursday morning for New Hampshire, hoping that we had all the belongings we would need for 3 weeks smashed into the car. We stopped in Knoxville to see Brian's cousin, Kim, and made it to Virginia by night (not driving as far as we had hoped, of course). We really enjoyed our new GPS (thanks, Schladts) as it allowed us to explore new places easily. We drove though Lexington, home of Washington and Lee University. We drove through Staunton, and I pointed out the highlights, like Woodrow Wilson's birthplace.
Our main via point for the day was Gettysburg, but we were critical of the GPS directions the took us off the interstate and onto a small road, then state highway. Seeing that this was the most direct route to Gettysburg from the south, we went for it, wihtout realizing how long it was! The windy road was recently widened to 2 lane and there was a one-lane bridge. We stopped for the restroom in a large town, Charles Town. As we marvelled at the historic buildings and went to the visitor's center, we realized that we were in West Virginia! What a suprise to us! The town was founded by George Washington's brother and is where they hung John Brown (Harper's Ferry in nearby). It was a nice diversion, but we made it to Gettysburg. For those of you who have been there, there is a huge new museum that opened in 2008 that takes hours to go through. For those of you who have not, it is a beautiful country and town and you can really learn a lot. We are all set to watch the movie again. I am most amazed by the pictures of vetrans, who came for renuions in the 1930's - old men, once foes, now friends. We stayed till dark!
Tried and hungry, we made it to Harrisburg by 10pm. We used the GPS to look up hotels and found a few full. One Hampton Inn was inexpensive and available, so we headed towards it, a bit cautious. When we got there, it was obvious that it was not affiliated with the hotel chain! It was a family-run motel. We sat in the parking lot for 20 minutes calling hotels and almost all were full, the available rooms considerably more expensive. We had the clerk, an old man, show us a room and from a quick check, it was not bad. Plus, there was continental breakfast. We booked the room and searched for dinner, ready to finish the night. The first "restaurant" the GPS took us to did not exist, so we ended up at Perkins. However, the waitress forgot we were her table (there were only 2 others tables in use at 11 pm). It took forever! And the food was not worth the time. Back at the hotel, I realized that the shower had more mold than anything I had ever seen! And we had no shampoo. Breakfast was bread, a toaster, and coffee, so we gave up on it and drove to the capitol. Thank goodness there was a Cracker Barrel in town!
Brian has a collection of state capitol pictures, so we made sure to see Pennsylvania's capitol. It was gorgeous inside, recently re-done, and surrounded by historic buildings along the river. We drove to Albany, where the state capitol was part of a large legislative complex, the Rockerfeller Plaza. It was built in the 60's with tunnels and reminded us of a futuristic movie or the UN center. There was a free music festival (they had Ting there) and it was attended by old hippies and diverse crowds. The oddest feature of the plaza was The Egg, an egg-shaped concert hall from 1980, where the ground level was a pedestal for ticket sales and the seats and stage were elevated. It clearly was no longer the pride of Albany!
By the time we reached Vermont, skies were threatening to let loose a torrential storm and I began to feel ill. It was hard for me to take in the gorgeous scenery of pine covered mountains and towns from the 1700's. We made it to Hanover without much rainfall and began to settle into Hotel life.

So, where did we go next??

On our return to Minneapolis, we spent 2 hectic days with my family, preparing for our next voyage and celebrating Independence Day. It was sooo nice to spend time with them (the boat iN beautiful weather was a bonus). We drove to Nashville, so Brian could work his last week at Vanderbilt. Poor Brian's birthday was a bit lost in the good-bye parties! Brian's co-worker, Amy, was SUPER generous, and let us stay in her house for July. I somehow stayed very busy preparing for the move and trying to change my name. I saw New Hampshire for the first time on a tight housing-search trip. We had a tough choice - save money vs new apartments, pond vs washer/dryer, Vermont vs NH. We enjoyed a few last sights of Nashville while we could - the Hermatige, state capitol, and the TN state Museum. When the movers told us they could not pick-up our belongings until Aug 6, we decided to head out of town and fly me back for the moving day. Brian was anxious to start work at Dartmouth and I was ready to explore our new home. Unfortunately, our apartment will not be ready until August 1, so we are living in a quaint inn at Dartmouth.

Honeymoon

Two days after the wedding, we headed to Canada to Mont Tremblant, a ski resort near Montral. No, there was no snow! However, there were beautiful mountains, lakes, and brooks. We enjoyed gondola and luge rides, mountain biking, mini-golf, paddle-boating, and tennis. Unfortunatlety, hiking was out-of the question, as the mountain summit was dense with no-see-ums, a fierce biting knat. It was a balance between enjoying the view and accepting the pain! I struggled to remeber my French. Our first day in Quebec was St. Jean Baptiste Day, patron saint of the province, so we watched local bands by the lake and saw fireworks. We enjoyed sampling the local specialty - smoked meat sandwiches. There was even a "Parade du Follies" or silly-parade some evenings, with games, dancing, and bilingual fun for the whole family.

After 5 days, we headed back to Montreal, where we stayed in a hotel from the '67 Expo. I felt like I was in an old movie, and it led to the underground city, a web of tunnels, subway stations, and commerce totally below ground level. We explored Old Montreal, from the 1600's, including mass at the first Basilica in North America (where Celine Dion was wed). I didn't know Montreal was a man-made island, on the St. Laurence River. The piers were busy. We explored the Olympic complex, which still houses the swimming and diving pools. Perhaps we saw some 2008 Olympians practice! We acsended the world's tallest inclined tower, overlooking the pro football team's practice. We had an even better view of the city from Mont Royal, a small mountain right in town! It was quite a hike, but a perfect day. We spent one evening at Montreal's casino, which is housed in the old French pavillion from the '67 Expo. I had quite the winning streak at the roulette table, winning at least one bet on 7 or 8 consecutive spins! brian fared worse at blackjack, but we still left about 20 dollars ahead. We wondered if the country was celebrating us, because there was another holiday on our last day! Canada Day had a very diverse parade and fireworks. It was also moving day in Montreal, the day all the leases end, so the city was really bustling. Now that we live so close to Quebec, we have our eyes fixed on Quebec City!

Wedding

We wanted to start with a thank you for all the kind wishes and prayers we recieved for our wedding. The day was more beautiful than we could have expected and we wish everyday could be so silled with loved ones and enjoyment. We especially appreciate eveyone who was able to make it; we know that is was difficult for most guests. We could not have had a better way to start out our marriage! We hope to have a link to the wedding pictures soon.