The original plan was NOT TO TAKE A COMPUTER ON OUR HONEYMOON, but being complete technolovers we just simply couldn’t resist. Actually the real reason was because we anticipated taking tons of pictures and video and ran the risk of exhausting our memory cards and wanted to have a way of dumping all our kodak moments onto a hard drive, thus liberating us to capture countless more. So the part that we couldn’t resist was using said computer to get online. That wasn’t in the plan at all. Ho well.

Anyway, I gave way to temptation and popped on here to say a quick hello, and to mention that the wedding was THE MOST PERFECT DAY EVER! I still can’t get over how lovely the whole thing was. Aside from a small predicted hitch with the florist, and another minor hiccup with the transfer of some luggage, everything went stunningly well. The weather was glorious, the food was divine, the location was outstanding, and I very much got the impression that everyone had a good time. All that hard work beforehand was more than worth it. And words can’t even describe how amazingly beautiful our bridal party looked, the whole effect was simply stunning, they took my breath away when I saw them. Anyway, enough about the wedding. I’ll talk more when I have some pictures to share….

So right now we have relocated ourselves for the exotic location of tranquility that calls itself Sri Lanka. We flew in on the red-eye on Sunday night, and since arriving have been making the most of every single second.

We took afternoon tea on the terrace at Mount Lavinia…

We’ve seen various Buddhas of asorted age, size and description (here are just a couple….we’ve seen LOTS already!!):

Not to mention assorted temples of all shapes and sizes…(again, here is just a taster of the many…)

But oh my goodness, the best things of all have been the wild animals… Monkeys run a mess everywhere you go, and aren’t at all scared to come up close to you, it’s incredible!

And on the subject of wildlife, our very favourite thing of all that we have done so far has been a jeep safari into one of the national parks up here. We had no idea what to expect- maybe the odd bird or so, like pelecans, or eagles, or stalks like this one we saw…

But I was amazed at how close we were able to get to the animals….see how near we got to these wild water buffalo!

and JUST LOOK at how close we got to these WILD ELEPHANTS!!!

I should add that our guide perhaps took us a little too close for my liking at one point though, as at one point in the excursion, the elephants started raising their trunks, trumpeting in an alarming fashion and stomping toward the jeep. I squealed naturally, I’ve never been good with wildlife, whatever the size, but it was apparently because we were in the elephants’ path to the lake, and they just wanted to clear us out of the way. And there was a teeny tiny baby elephant in their herd that was only a month old, and they were wanting to make sure we kept our distance, as protective parents would feel of any new arrival. It was the sweetest thing ever…..if the word’sweet‘ can be used to describe something that was four times as big as the car.

I guess I should also take the time right now to introduce MrNin to you, as he is of course SoonToBe- no longer! Well, here he is, the man himself, I present to you my husband, the one and only now-to-be-called MrNin!

He liked the elephants.