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The First Family is getting wedding invites.
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You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create.
Really looking forward to this for the wedding blog.
I feel like this is an extension of a post I made about New Year’s Eve in NYC earlier this year, but I want to see a spectacle.
I just learned about something called the Dakar Rally. Its an annual race that for the past two years has taken place in South America. Beginning on January 1st and ending on January 16th, entrants drive motorcycles, cars, ATV’s, and trucks in a 9,030 km loop through Argentina and Chile.
This sounds amazing. The picture above is from Boston.com’s beautiful photo essay covering the event. It looks like a blistering competition marrying endurance, driving skill, and engineering. Competitors battle the elements, the structural limits of their machines, and of course, other racers. Its like something out of Speed Racer.
Simply put, this ain’t NASCAR.
I’ve decided, for our honeymoon, that I want to go to someplace in the world and see a spectacle. I want to see something that’s far and beyond American Idol, NASCAR, or even the NFL playoffs. We leave in October, so if you have any suggestions, please pass them along.
In the meantime, I want to keep my eyes open for something, ANYTHING, exciting here in the states. I’ll drive, train, maybe even fly to see it. Air shows? I’m going. Catapult competition? I’m there. Three hundred men chasing cheese down a hill. Two tickets please.
I want to see people staring down the elements and winning. I want to watch a feat that makes mother nature piss her pants-suit and I don’t want to be sitting down on my couch when it happens.
America is still capable of amazing, right?
Well, I guess it’s time to start the actual planning…
We set a date and booked a venue!
“Its a traaap!”
(via notquitefaust)
Arin Safadi, a 24 year old Druze woman from the village of Ein Qinya in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, set out to marry her fiance, 35-year-old Rabia Safadi in neighboring Syria last September. However, due to the absence of diplomatic ties between Syria and Israel, she had to sign a document shortly befor leaving, giving up her right of residence - acknowledging that she would not be allowed to return to her family home. Arin and Rabia were married the same day, planning to move to Jaramana, a twon near Damascus, Syria. (via Stories from Israel, Tanzania and Malaysia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Potential wedding bands for Jason.
Should Shannon and I pay someone to dress as Chewbacca and tend the bar at our wedding?
