Me Love You Long Time

At the beginning of this wedding planning ordeal Eileen tasked me with one thing: the honeymoon. So how I get sucked in to other decisions (what's a centerpiece?) and meetings (I need to meet the priest?) is still a mystery to me. I know -- I should probably be more proactive in the process but wasn't proposing the idea of marriage enough? (just kidding) Thankfully, Eileen hasn't gone bridezilla on me... yet.

I have actually gotten farther in the honeymoon planning process and chosen a location. Of course, the decision wasn't easy and we did consider various places:

• Europe: One of my former coworkers went to France on their honeymoon and took cooking classes while they stayed at an apartment there. While this is very cool, Eileen and I have been to France (albeit separately) and were thinking of a more tropical location.


• Australia/New Zealand: We've both always wanted to go here and since we are very likely to be taking a lot of time off it would be the perfect opportunity to travel to the land down under. But in some ways it didn't seem exotic enough.

This has led us to the actual location. And in all honesty, the decision was somewhat made for us. Having traveled a lot for work I've accumulated a decent amount of hotel points and airline mileage. So we looked at the locations where these could all be redeemed and finally came up with...

Southeast Asia

We still haven't decided on a specific itinerary but as of now, Thailand - specifically Krabi (2 hours from Phuket) and Bangkok - is the most likely destination. We want to see if we can fit another country or two in but with limited time it may not be possible. So if anyone has any suggestions feel free to chime in.