As promised, here are the official wedding photos. I’m very pleased with how they turned out. Photos of such an important day are really invaluable. We really had a great time.
If you prefer, you can browse them by thumbnail. Or have a full-window slideshow.

On Friday we went to a dinner party at one of Marga’s coworkers’ house. Her husband is a hunter, and they had some pretty freaky things, like weapons and dead things, decorating their house.

On Monday, February 11, I went out with some of my high school hallmates to a specialty beer bar in Raleigh, called The Raleigh Times Bar. They had about 200 different beers on the menu, with a special section for Belgian Beers. I was pretty much in heaven. We had three different [...]

Every year I play in a golf tournament organized by my father in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This year there were 16 participants staying in 4 condos playing golf in a 3-day tournament. I played excellent golf and ended up tied with the leader after all 54 holes, but I lost in a [...]

The main feast day for Saint Thomas in the Catholic church falls suspiciously close to the winter solstice, and is celebrated on December 21 with a huge fair in San Sebastian, Spain. In Mondragón, my wife’s home town, Santo Tomás is also an important day. But since San Sebastian is so close and [...]

Today the sun is at it’s lowest arc in the southern sky, something our ancestors have been celebrating for many millennia. We are headed to the in-laws to celebrate the solstice in the typical Spanish way, with food, wine, and merriment.

We’ve got a little tradition forming here. This is the second year in a row that we’ve eaten a turkey pizza for Thanksgiving. I’ve taken some photos during the cooking process to show you.

This is a “viewer generated content” post. I didn’t take one single photo during my wedding.

We’re back from our honeymoon! We’ve got plenty of wedding and honeymoon photos to share, but first we’ve got to get some of the pre-wedding family visit / birthday photos out of the way. My father has written up a much better explanation of events than my blurred memory could give you, so [...]

For years now, I’ve been told what a shame it was that I’ve been missing Maritxu (mar-EE-choo). Maritxu is a huge party in Mondragon held on the first Friday of October. Since moving to Spain 2.5 years ago, I’ve been out of the country for Maritxu in both 2005 (golfing in Scotland) [...]