Deep Breaths

Anniversary

Hello, faithful readers. As you can tell by the decreasing frequency of our posts, things continue to be crazy. However, after receiving a few pleas (and at least one threat), I decided to set aside a few minutes to give you all an update on the last few days.

Friday night, we took our youth group to Pizza Hut. Now, ever since I was old enough to chew, Pizza Hut pizza has been one of my favorite delicacies, and after a solid month of chicken, seafood, Greek salad, olives, and other admittedly-delicious-yet-relatively-bland-and-healthy fare, it was a welcome change to ingest some good old-fashioned American grease! Yum. Poor Leia is still on a dairy-free and not-much-bread regimen, so she had to settle for a small thin-crust pizza with no cheese, which is not nearly as much fun. :-(

Saturday we had lunch with two couples, one of whom are very close friends of Leia's. The second couple had two small children with them in the restaurant, which only served to reinforce our conviction that we want to just enjoy marriage for a couple of years before adding kids to the mix (although I think all of our parents are already in full-fledged "we want grandkids NOW" mode).

On Sunday we attended a city-wide ecumenical Christian celebration at a local hotel. It was a very cool scene—English folk, Greek Cypriots, Filipinos, Sri Lankans, Africans, and one very tall American, all worshipping together in various languages and cultural forms. Wonderful vibe of unity, although our enthusiasm was tempered a bit by the fact that we were sitting directly under one of the main speakers, which had been cranked up to somewhere between "jackhammer" and "jet engine."

I've wracked my brain, but I have absolutely no idea what we did on Monday. I guess it must not have been too exciting...

Yesterday we ran down to Limassol once again to get the tailor started on the waistcoats that my groomsmen and I will wear for the wedding. I think we'll both be very relieved when this wedding is over so we can go through a few days in a row without asking, "which city are we driving to today, again?"

Which brings us up to this afternoon. Leia has gone off to have another fitting done with her wedding dress, which I am expressly forbidden to see before the ceremony starts, hence all the free time I have to blog. ;-) Tonight we're going to Starbucks to relax with some sort of iced drink (we're in the midst of a heat wave at the moment) and plan our youth group lesson for Friday.

Today also marks the one-year anniversary of the night that Leia and I officially became a couple after attending an Atlanta Braves game (thank you Jason, Teresa, and Faith). It seems like yesterday. . . it seems like a decade ago. We're both really grateful for the past year, and for all the great people we've been able to share it with. Can't wait to celebrate the culmination of all of this with all of you. We love and miss you.

–John

posted by John and Leia @ 8:15 AM