22 days… even to type 22 days gives me that excited butterfly feeling. The kind you get when you are a kid and you are doing something really cool the next day and you can’t sleep because you are so excited and nervous rolled into one.

For me I always got that feeling the night before rocky point park. Rocky point was one of our local amusement parks in Warwick Rhode island. It had a skyliner, the corkscrew loop roller coaster, the house of horrors (my favorite) and a freefall that fell 13 stories at 55+ mph. I remember the year when I was going to be old enough to ride the freefall. I had butterflies all night and couldn’t sleep so I tried to creep out of my bed to go wake up my sister and talk about how excited and nervous I was. I of course got caught (per usual) in the hallway by my dad. He told me to get back to bed or I was going to be really tired the next day. My adrenaline was running all night and the next day when we got there (I was of course exhausted) but I couldn’t wait to try it out. I made my mom ride it with me and I remember when we got to the very top you could see all of Rhode island and it was beautiful. I remember I held my breath as the cage pushed forward and I began to count. In years past I had already counted the clicks it took to drop and it was 3 ½ so I knew what to expect. As I got to three I sucked in real hard as I heard my mom scream. I am pretty sure she ended up peeing her pants on that ride. It was the craziest thing I had ever done and I just wanted to do it again and again. That is how I feel right now that I can’t wait to try it out but I think I might pee my pants from all the excitement and anticipation and I know I will just want to do it again and again.

My check list is also so close to being complete (I know! I can barely believe it) We have a few wedding and travel errands to do this weekend and we also have an appointment to go get our marriage license at 9:30a.m. tomorrow (eeek)! My mom is also helping me with a few other DIY projects and for that I am so grateful. MaryAnn e-mailed me yesterday and told me some great news. We were having some pricing issues with our flowers (we have a lot of flowers) 8 bouquets, 8 boutonnières, 3 flower girls, the aisle, the tables, the petal shower plus some and it was causing us to come over budget. I told MaryAnn we would just have to cut some stuff which wasn’t even a big deal but she refused and told me to give her a few days. Yesterday she told me she got everything to work expect the loose table flowers which would only be an additional $150.00 ….SOLD! She really is the best freaking wedding planner in the world. We also got all of the groomsmen stuff in so last night we had subs and a wedding fashion show at Joe & Anu’s. It was so fun watching Anu, Joe and Colt get all decked out with Doug (Joe’s brother) emceeing the event. The bridesmaids and groomsmen colors and outfits flow so nice together and Colt looks like such a stud muffin. My little groom!

On Sunday we have all of our BIG meetings at the grand. This is the first time we will be meeting with everyone all at the same time. Our DJ, photographer, MaryAnn, Colt and I will all be going over the game plan for the wedding day, it is all so surreal. After Sunday the next time we will meet will be at the chapel on the Friday night before our wedding with our whole wedding party. I can’t believe everyone will be here in less than 22 days.

I also can’t believe we will be in Thailand in 24 days. I made my first baht purchase on Wednesday night and then I made 2 more. It was so fun and exhilarating to shop in another country! I originally went online to book our one flight from Bangkok to Chiang Rai but ended up with 4 tickets and a hotel room. It was so fun to price compare flights and hotels especially because it seems like you are spending so much money when really you aren’t. I ended up spending about $9,884 baht! I also found a 4 star hotel with free airport transfers so I booked the deluxe suite for $1290 baht (about $40.00 American and that includes all taxes and fees). Colt keeps joking that he is going to have to take out a whole wad of baht just for a beer (one $6.00 beer will cost us $189 baht). My co-worker keeps reminding me to take out $10,000 baht right when I get to the airport so I have some cash for travel. I laugh every time, you know just $10,000 baht …oh what a wad and adventure it will be.