Hurricanes and Honeymoons

After driveing over 850 miles and 12+ hours today, my wife and I are home from our honeymoon from Disneyworld in Florida. It was a great trip....wonderful weather and good times :)

The wedding and reception were wonderful besides the fact that the majority of family and friends that attended were in the process of evacuating from hurricane Katrina. Our wedding night hotel in New Orleans and our flight to Orlando from New Orleans were canceled so we drove to Florida....and got to drive along the Mississippi Coast the day before it was destroyed. Besides the hurricane, I could not have asked for a better wedding :)

My hometown(Pearl River,La) is on the Miss./La. border and my wife's hometown (Slidell, La) is on Lake Ponchartrain. I have family from all over southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. And hurricane Katrina has completely messed up everyone's lives. Luckily, my parents and my wife's parents all made it through the hurricane will only slight damage to their homes but they will be without power for the next 6 -8 weeks. However, I have a lot of family and friends that will be without homes or have had their homes severely damaged. Please let your prayers be with them and all others who have suffered because of this hellish natural disaster. Also, remember to be thankful that you have clean water to drink, food to eat, a roof over your head, electricity for our daily activities, a place to go to work, and the means to communicate with love ones. You never think about how great these things make our lives until you and people you know have to do without.

God Bless!

glad to hear all went well for you and your family

Congrats on your wedding. May you have a Blessed and Love filled life together.

And I am (and have been) sending good thoughts and vibes to ALL who were affected by nasty Katrina.

I was just wondering how you were Daniel, and was praying you were just busy with wedding/honeymoon stuff. Glad to here that you guys made it out of there and that your families are ok. Here in Memphis we do have quiet a few refugees and I will be volunteering to help them in the shelters. Have a wonderful honeymoon and congratulations again on your marriage! Thanks for letting us know you and your new wife are safe and sound, now go and enjoy your honeymoon! ;) :D

Wonderful to read that you and your wife are home safe Daniel and had a lovely wedding and honeymoon despite Katrina. Also that your friends and family are alive and safe, albeit terribly affected by this awful natural disaster.

Thank you as well Daniel for reminding all of us that even though we may face life's challenges, we need to be very thankful we have the basics of life and that in itself is a blessing that so many in the affected area do not share right now.

Blessings on both you and your wife as you start this new chapter of your lives together.


~~Jo~~

Crap! Did not see this thread! Congrats man on the wedding and everything else and glad ur ok with all thats going on down there!

Thanks everyone :) It is great to be back.

Hey Daniel I forgot to ask you something.

When you spied that big ole Mickey Mouse did it at any point go through your mind...."hmmm wonder what size snake would eat that????"

:P

~~Jo~~

^^ LOL!! I met Mickey this summer and he's pretty freakin' big. Looks like he'd turn vicious if you fed him live, too!

Daniel: We want pix!!!

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Also, remember to be thankful that you have clean water to drink, food to eat, a roof over your head, electricity for our daily activities, a place to go to work, and the means to communicate with love ones. You never think about how great these things make our lives until you and people you know have to do without.

God Bless!

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You know what Daniel? I was saying the same thing to Karl last week. We were frustrated because money ran a little dry last week and we both got paid on Friday. I told him, "you know what? We're worried about getting to Friday, but we have a roof over our heads, clean water to drink and shower in, a comfortable bed to sleep in and food in our bellies, and a job to go to. We are very blessed and we need to keep these folks in our hearts and prayers. We may not have everything we "want" but we have everything we "need"!

Congratulations on your wedding and honeymoon and glad to hear that everyone was safe!