Hi all. So here we are in the home straight. Only 6 weeks from today (Sunday 05/09) till the honeymoon. Things are really starting to heat up with the wedding plans, which is only 40 days away. Lyndsay is stressing about all the “fiddly little things” like bonbonnieres, place settings, and all of the trimmings associated with weddings. I have to admit, I come from the school of “Do you? I do! You’re done! Off you go!” so we tend to disagree about a few things. Bottom line is, it’s all about getting married, having a wonderful day/night, and then going on a fantastic honeymoon. We both want the same outcome, just going about it in different ways. I can see where I have been all about the “little things’ when it has come to organising the honeymoon and Lyndsay has sat back and let me go on my anal retentive over planning way. There is still lots of work to do before the 16^th of October comes around, but I know that we will get there on the day and it will be the day that we have pictured in our minds all along.

Now as far as the honeymoon is concerned, I have to ask you all to ask yourselves, “What is the scariest thing anyone has ever said to you about going on your honeymoon?” I know this is an unusual question but I had the scariest comment made to me a few months ago, the sort of comment that makes any honeymooners blood run cold. Let me set the scene so you get a better understanding of where I am coming from. So you all know by now that Lyndsay and I have organised this honeymoon of ours to a wonderful tropical destination, a place with wonderful and plentiful options for 2 honeymooners to enjoy themselves together. We have organised the honeymoon without our beautiful children who we are leaving behind so we can have some time to spoil ourselves alone, just 2 newlyweds in a “sea of strangers”.

Plenty of “scary” things have been said before. “What about the political unrest in Thailand?”. “Did you hear about the plane incident in Koh Samui?”. “A tourist got murdered in Bangkok”. But they all still pale in comparison to what was said to me at work one morning. I work in a registered Club and have been at this club for 15 of the last 20 years. One woman I work with and have known for all of those 20 years is named Christine. (in fact she taught me how to pour my first beer) Christine is lovely, and could talk the ears off a field of corn. Now she has had a few nicknames over the years, she has always been affectionately know as “space” because I’m sure Christine will tell you, she is the typical “blonde” and prone to “blonde moments”. So here I was at work one morning when Christine asked me “When are Lyndsay and you going to Thailand for your honeymoon and where are you staying?”. Well I answered the question with “October, and staying in Phuket”. Well here comes the scary response… Christine looks at me and says…. Are you ready for it?… “I’m going to Phuket in October with my girlfriends!” WARNING! WARNING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Well there you go, that ruined my “sea of strangers”. I rushed off to the computer once I found out where she was staying, started up Google Earth, only to find out we will be only 2.24km apart as the crow flies, and our holidays overlap by 6 whole days!!!!! So much for anonymity! I can just see it now, we will run into each other numerous times in numerous places, and it will be just like going to Erina Fair on a Thursday night. It just goes to highlight that it really is a small world these days and no matter how hard you try to sneak away, someone, somewhere, will know you and you will have to be on your best behaviour…lol.

In all honesty, the likelihood that we might run in to each other is relatively slim, and by taking certain drastic actions of not leaving the hotel room for 6 days I’m sure we can completely avoid any unnecessary meetings. I suppose the only question then left to answer is… “What can 2 young/young at heart newlywed honeymooners do inside their hotel room for 6 days? Looks like I might have to pack a few good books and some boardgames…lol… Nah!!! Just kidding! We will still be out enjoying our wonderful honeymoon, experiencing as much as we can cram in to 10 days in Phuket. Nothing can spoil our honeymoon without the kids.

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