Nope, just gone vegan. I know, I just totally blew your mind. Will, the meatasaurus turning vegan? That's right. We decided last weekend to go vegan. For lots of reasons. Treatment of animals, health of ourselves...I thought it would be a nightmare to transition, but so far it's been surprisingly easy. We had a couple of meat substitutes, all of which I enjoyed. There is a "California Vegan" restaurant nearby and I had Pad Thai with soy chicken that tasted exactly like the Pad Thai I used to get. To make the transition easier we decided to actually finish the stuff we already had otherwise not only did we help kill the animals but then we would be wasting that death, so we're finishing our milk, not throwing away our shoes with leather, etc, but going forward we won't be buying anything like that. Shouldn't be too hard because we already eat a lot of veggies and things. The hardest things for me will be my Omaha Steaks and cheese, but I'm pretty sure I can deal. I've also lost about 5 pounds this first week and I'm pretty sure cutting out meat and dairy had something to do with that.

You can check out our wedding photos in 1 of 2 ways.

Shutterfly - which will allow you to view and even purchase prints from 4x6 to 20x30, plus a bunch of other crap - mugs, puzzles, coasters, anything!

My site - I was lazy so I just used a little html album maker thing... good enough for now :)

(Sorry, still no photos, I'm still working on the galleries but they'll be up soon).

So the entire story for those who don't know it went something like this.

Saturday, May 06

Get up, pack car, drive to San Luis Obispo. Walk around, wine tasting, fancy dinner, nice hotel, sleep

Sunday, May 07

Get up, check out, drive to Hearst Castle. Go on tour, have lunch. Continue drive up coast to Big Sur. Check in to Post Ranch Inn (PRI) Treehouse room, finalize marriage certificate paperwork, ooh and aah over our room. WAY too fancy dinner at restaurant at PRI

Monday, May 08

Get up, have free breakfast, go on hike. Drive up to Molera state park and do a 3 hour horseback ride. Skip fancy dinner and have cheap dinner instead. Walk around, play Stratego (E's first time) Hot tub fun and champagne.

Tuesday, May 09

Get up, have free breakfast, go on even bigger, longer hike. Go to PRI Spa for 2 hour facial/massage heaven. Bellhop swaps keys with us and takes us to new Ocean House room where all of our belongings have been transferred during spa-citement. Get ready for wedding. 6pm wedding celebrant and photographer show up. Have ceremony and photo shoot. Now we're married! wooo! Go to fancy restaurant again.* Back to fancy room, champagne in hot tub

Wednesday, May 10

Wake up, early morning dip in infinity basking pool free breakfast. 2 masseuses show up at our room for 1 hour massages on our patio in the sun and fresh air checkout and drive home (with 1 hour delay for clean-up of landslide on Highway 1)

*Wedding night fancy restaurant anecdote: So as we are sitting having our fancy dinner (the reason I keep mentioning how fancy this place is becomes relevant shortly), I see come in the door (I'm sitting sort of facing the front door) a guy and girl. The girl is wearing black tights and short white shorts. NOT the proper dress for this restaurant in the middle of nowhere. So I'm sort of looking at them thinking "who the hell would come in here dressed like that?!" And then I realize its Zooey Deschanel and Giovanni Ribisi. Now some of you will recall that we always have weird star sightings. This one definitely takes the cake, Zooey and Giovanni at a fancy restaurant in the middle of nowhere?! And to make it an even more spectacular sighting, Giovanni happens to be E's most favorite actor... and he walked into the same restaurant as us... on our wedding night! Anyway, it was pretty amazing, especially to E.

So as of 6:30 pm May 9, 2006, Elizabeth and I are officially married. Just got home from a long drive (which included sitting parked in the car for an hour while a landslide was cleared). More details and photos coming soon.