Hello, my name is Sara Andrews. I'm married!!!! Oh boy, so much to blog about! December 14, 2013 was our wedding! I can't wait to share pictures! The day was beautiful. Everything went exactly the way that I had prayed it would (complete with 7 inches of snow! :0). The ceremony went smoothly, the reception went well and it was our perfect day! That night we headed up to Detroit to stay at the Renaissance Center on the river :) The next morning we headed off for FLORIDA! Even though there was so much snow the say before, the roads weren't too bad while we were driving. We stopped the first night in Knoxville, TN. The next day we finished our 10 hour drive in Daytona Beach, FL.
It was in the 60s the first few days and in the 80s the last few days! Much better than Michigan! We had a lot of cool experiences! We went to a lot of cool local restaurants and went parasailing (in which we saw a HUGE manta ray, sharks and dolphins below us. So neat (and a little scary!) We went to St. Augustine for a day trip, a couples massage and a few days on the beach. Pretty relaxing!
On the way home, we stopped in Newport, TN to visit Josh's "grandma" that wasn't able to come to the wedding because of the big snow. We finally got to the town at 7:00 at night, stomachs growling. To our surprise, there were no restaurants ( or at least open) in the whole town! So, dinner was cheese crackers from the local gas station...haha. Then the fun began...It had rained for the past two days so flooding had occurred, as well as trees fallen and there was a lot of fog. One small detail....Ruth (Josh's grandma) lives on top of a mountain. No joke, on top of a real mountain. So, here we drove up the winding roads with hair pin turns, with the flooding (which made small waterfalls in the mountains!), trees down on the side of the road and fog, and cliffs to the side. We inched along and finally made it there and back. Then we stayed at a nasty Comfort Inn (that was not actually all that comfortable). We were glad to get out of there and head back for Christmas Eve at our new home.
Christmas went well with both families but.....on the way home from family Christmas' we received a phone call from our apartment that there had been a "small" leak above us and that there were a few drops of water on our dining room table. Unfortunately by the time we got there, there was a whole lot more than a few drops. There was a flood in the apartment above and it had seeped down into our ceiling and was now coming down in a steady stream in multiple places. In came the clean up upholstery guys and they cut 9 holes in our ceiling to let all the water pour out. In the process, all of our stuff was getting wet! We quickly removed all of the wedding presents and eventually everything in the whole apartment in order to keep from ruining our things! The apartment complex gave us another apartment to house our things. My parents and a couple friends came over to help us move everything out within 5 hours. It was quite a night...I only cried once, when I emotionally thought we were homeless ;) Haha, turns out we have been SO blessed! Nothing was ruined! We are now in a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 4 CLOSET apartment for only $50 more!! Just today we did our class bit of rearranging and decorating to make it our new home :) We love it! Even though it was a huge pain at the time, it turned out better for us in the end. Isn't that how things usually work out? ;) God's sure got His hand on us!
Picture of the wedding and new apartment to come...
