The Spice Isle

I have been Mrs. Hot Cup for 20 days and I love it! I’ll share a little about the wedding day but I’m waiting until I have the pictures back from the photographer.

For our honeymoon we went to the Caribbean island Grenada. It is a beautiful island with so much to see and we had such a great time! Hot Cup had planned it wonderfully, we saw a lot of great things and enjoyed ourselves very much the entire time. I don’t know what pictures to share so here’s a ton (click on them to see them bigger).

The capital city, St George’s:
> Downtown
> From Fort George
> From our hotel

Some Beaches:
> Grand Anse Beach (by our hotel)
> LaSagesse Beach
> Palmiste Beach

Carriacou (a sister island of Grenada):
> Overlooking Hillsborough (I have a club soda to help me feel better after the ferry ride.)
> Pretty view
> Us on Paradise Beach with Sandy Island in the background

> The road to the hot springs (actually not a bad spot right here, it was a tough drive, good thing we rented a jeep! And good thing Hot Cup was driving!)
> Grand Etang Lake (in a volcano crater, elevation 1740 ft)
> Nutmeg plant … bags of nutmeg (Grenada produces many different spices including 40% of the world’s nutmeg. I should have taken pictures on the tour but I wasn’t thinking. However I can tell you all about how they process nutmeg.)

Belmont Estate Cocoa Plant:

> Pretty view from Carib’s Leap
> Hot Cup hiking to a waterfall
> Us at a waterfall

I <3 my husband and I <3 Grenada.

3 Days Left

Lots already done. Lots still to do.

Wedding planning is busy business. I think I'm on track enough. But I'm excited for it to be here, and even gone, because then I'll be with Hot Cup :)

I take a short break to bring you “The Ultimate Australian Cookie,” “A Girl’s Best Friend in Australia.” At least that’s what my co-workers call them. I think that second one is funny because it’s the guys in the office that are so excited. Twice in the last week someone gave us Tim Tams, which is apparently a favorite cookie in Australia.

30 Years Later

Aside from telling us that Coke Zero tastes like regular Coke, I think that this commercial was intended to have us look back at the old Coke commercial. So that's what we shall do. And happily. The original one is excellent.

Mean Troy
Coke Zero
2009 Super Bowl


Mean Joe Green
Coca-Cola Classic
1979 Super Bowl


Correction: Make that 29 years. Mean Joe Green was in 1980 according to Adland.

'Tis the Season

Or 'twas. Here are a few pictures.

The DC Temple.
Yummy Christmas Cookies.

Uncle Hot Cup.
The White House.


The Capitol.

66 days ...

... til March 7th! The wedding countdown widget I've got on here I totally stole from my Hot Cup's blog.

Pictures <3

A wonderful family friend and photographer, Jean Allen, took our engagement photos. Here are a few of them. Hot Cup isn’t as big of a fan of a couple of these, but it’s my blog :p




I wasn't sure which ones to share. I tried to use ones that probably won't end up in the announcement, but if one of these does, sorry for the repetition :) I also tried not to use too lovey-dovey of ones, you're welcome.

Customer Disservice

Why offer a service you can't deliver?

I was shopping online and had a question when I saw they offered live chat. I've used live chat on other merchants' sites many times before, it's usually instant and helpful and I was pleased to see they offered it too. So I clicked to chat but no one ever came. I was at work so decided to do other stuff while I waited. But no one was there!

After a few hours I finally just emailed them and they responded very promptly. Why did they offer live chat if they weren't going to chat with customers who tried to use it? So lame.