A Playa del Carmen Wedding

Hey gang! I have recently returned from a very short, but mighty trip across the Pacific to one of my very best gal friend's wedding. My friend Neely and her fiancé Tim were married at a gorgeous oceanside ceremony in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The travel was long (Singapore - Tokyo - Houston - Cancun, and back) but it was certainly worth the journey. It was so wonderful to see two amazing people exchanging their vows and making it official. I wouldn't have missed it for the world! A recap below -

Kicking off the weekend festivities, I arrived on Thursday evening just in time for a late dinner. 

Some señoritas getting settled and enjoying ourselves on the nights leading up to the main event...

Heeeey...

The wedding weekend took place at The Royal Playa del Carmen, which is an epic, all-inclusive resort overlooking the Caribbean, filled with refreshing winding pools and just a few steps from town (in case you needed a break from one of the many bars on the property!).  Needless to say, much fun was had. 

As Michael was unfortunately unable to make the journey, my date for the weekend was my BF4L, Amy, who was also sans husband (and precious new baby).   

Pre ceremony  (sunny) selfies. 

It was so much fun (TOO much fun at some points ;)) spending time and catching up with many of my soul sisters whom I miss deeply. 

Wildcats represent. 

It was an absolutely perfect afternoon in paradise for a wedding. So much love. 

Kappa gals with our beautiful bride. #getschmolked #holyschmolke 

The beaming K family. 

After the ceremony we moved indoors for a delicious lunch, wedding cake and dancing. My photos from inside the ballroom didn't really turn out with the lighting, but I CAN tell you there were glow sticks, fireworks, a tequila conga line and a rendition of 'tie-limbo' involved. After the reception it was time to hit the pool to complete the fun-filled, love-filled, piña colada-filled day. 

Cheers to the newlyweds!! 

And while I was sunning myself by the pool, Michael was working hard, eating (hard) and navigating the protesters in Hong Kong. We were quite literally two planes passing in the night...

As I am settling back in the comforts of the equatorial heat (I'm sorry to everyone in KC and Omaha who had to travel home to cold and SNOW), Michael is currently 'down un-da' in Sydney (he's been gone a lot lately, right?!). He has taken the nice camera with him and promises a full blog recap upon his return.

Cheers to a swift and warm week y'all.

XO,

CD 

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Lately

Hey Friends! 

I'm back! Did you miss your weekly dose of LGE? Sorry for being MIA the past few weeks. Full-disclosure, the reason is three-fold. 1). My muse Michael was traveling for the month so I was solo in SG and pretty low on material. You guys really don't want to see a weekend recap that solely consists of photos of me sweating my face off 1/2 marathon training and drinking wine on the couch watching reruns of [The Office/GIRLS/Friday Night Lights/Alaska: The Last Frontier]. 2). The times I was social and did neat things it was with very new friends and I felt seriously uncool trying to secretly photo journal the event :) and 3). the camera on my iphone broke - just the back camera. I can now only take front camera selfies (as seen below). SO - with that, a quick weekend recap and a random photo dump of things 'lately'. Miss you guys! How many days until Christmas again?  

In between long runs outside - 33 days until race day - and a couple great meals, we had a big adventure to the Thompson Road plant nurseries. It felt like a very 'old married couple' mission. We walked around sweating through our shirts trying to pick up the perfect balcony plant (I killed our last bamboo plant with a serious lack of love) and debating on the appropriate amount of money that one should spend on a single plant. (spoiler alert: it's not $350)



We ended up with this beauty. I love how it turned out. The nice people also delivered and potted it for us a few hours later (aw, city living). 



We also snagged this little 'lime' tree for homegrown gin & tonics, which to our surprise actually turned out to be an orange plant. So there's that. 



And finally a beautiful little orchid for inside. BIG SATURDAY! 




Sunday was spent running, re-hydrating, reading and napping. (Not That Kind of Girl - amazing).

We ended the weekend with a lovely, healthy dinner and viewing of The Godfather Part II.
 It felt so good to have our little family of 2 and routine back in order :)

...Lately...

As I mentioned, Michael spent ~3 weeks in October back traveling around the US: 

Going on runs with this handsome pup in KC.



And being a groomsman in not 1 but 2 gorgeous weddings 

Georgia

(still not over the fact I could not be there).

Connecticut

Back in Singapore people are gearing up for Christmas. (Halloween isn't really a thing and Thanksgivings doesn't exist, obvi, so we start to gear up for Christmas about mid-October).

The weather remains unchanged. 

I cut 5.5in off my hair. 

I attended my very first Chinese wedding with my work colleagues. 

I got new glasses.

...And we spent 1 amazing week cheering on the Royals (at 8:00AM).

That's about it folks, but things are looking to pick up soon - I am jetting off to Mexico later this week for my dear friend's wedding.  I can't wait! Once I return Michael will be gone for a couple weeks for back-to-back work trips to Hong Hong, Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zeland. I tried to tag along for part of the trip but the timing just didn't work out - do you know far away AUS and NZ are from Singapore?! Ugh. Next time you see Michael give him a hard time for leaving me behind AGAIN while he gets to go on all the fun adventures without me ;)

Until next time...

XO,

CD

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