The duc_fan got married! UPDATE: more pics!

[duc_fan]

Dan's life has been a little crazy.  Work has been demanding overtime, all kinds of new responsibilities, the house needs maintenance, the cars and motorcycle require care and feeding... and then he went and threw a wedding in on top of it.

Yes, I am officially married now!  Erica is a wonderful young woman.  On top of her other innumerable qualities, she told me last year that I did not have to sell the Ducati to buy her an expensive ring ( 1 - she thinks the Duc is sexy, and 2 - she doesn't want to carry something that expensive around on her finger anyway).  So yeah, I wanted to get a ring on this woman's finger ASAP.    She's an engineer (materials science), and so the two of us are dangerous together when we start speaking geek.  

Our wedding was (supposed to be) a small affair at Skamania Lodge.  We both have huge families tho... so it got a little bigger than we intended.  ~200 people, most of which were related to us in one way or another.

Our honeymoon was in Sedona, Arizona.  We spent most of our time at a vacation house I rented, and made a couple side trips.  

Once over Hwy 89A, through Jerome, over to Prescott.  Then she had never seen the Grand Canyon, so we drove up there on another day trip.

Here's a few of the pics from our time there... (pics are clickable to view on Photobucket)

The official touristy pic in Sedona:


I rented a Corvette.  It was supposed to be a coupe (for luggage space), but the guy at Rent-A-Vette made a mistake, and all he had left was the convertible.  Thankfully we were able to squeeze the large case in (though we had to leave the top up for the drives to/from Phoenix with that bag in the trunk).


It took some arm-twisting to get this pose out of her, but I think it was worth it.

[duc_fan]

Sunrise in Sedona, view from the back door of the vacation house:

(Red Rock Realty, the "Juniper" property)

Thursday, 4/1/2010
A viewpoint I used to stop at in college, on Hwy 89A between Jerome and Prescott.  Used to stop here when I would make midnight runs on that wonderfully twisty highway. 


Obligatory hot car pic (this was a different time of day, the return drive, hence the different lighting)


Friday, 4/2/2010
On our trip to the Grand Canyon, we drove north on Hwy 89A out of Sedona toward Flagstaff.  This is the viewpoint from the top of Oak Creek Canyon... gawd, what a beautiful drive!


Where the highway winds up the steep canyon walls to the summit:


Obligatory tourist pic at the top of Oak Creek Canyon:

[duc_fan]

Friday 4/2/2010 (cont'd)

The Grand Canyon!  Well, part of it, anyway... this is near the main visitor's center in Grand Canyon Nat'l Park:


Other views...




There was still snow up there!  It never got out of the mid-40's while we were there.  The south rim is around 7000 feet in elevation.


Me, standing on a rock promontory... quite the vista from there.


Touristy couple pic...


My darling...


Note that there is nothing but air under that rock I'm sitting on...

[duc_fan]

Friday, 4/2/2010 (cont'd)
Another location... Grandview Point, during "magic hour" just before sunset.


Another shot from Grandview Point:


A panorama of Grandview Point:


The album can be viewed on Photobucket HERE.

[ryandalling]

Congrats man!!

[JBubble]

Congrats!

[krolik]

Woo hoo, way to go

[GAAN]

Congrats man

on a very strange side note

your bride looks A LOT like my cousin jessica

so much so I had to do a double take in two of those pics

crazy


I hope everything goes very well for you two

you look like you are having a good time

[INFIDEL]

Congrats.

[Betty Rage]

Congrats on all that. She's cute. 

[monsterRS]

Congrats!  Wishing the very best! She is cute...good job.

[scott_araujo]

Congrats!  Somehow I thought you were getting married in the spring.  Wait, it is the spring.  I need to get out more.

Scott

[JohnnyDucati]

Dan,

Sincere congratulations.  You two did a wonderful thing.

Best wishes to both of you for the brightest of futures.


John

[desmosome]

gj dan

gratz

[duc_fan]

Thanks all!  Sorry, I haven't been in here in a couple days, work is nutty again.  Major deadline tomorrow... and I have 3 more specs to submit for approval signatures.  I finished one this morning and needed to take a brief break, so here I am.

Yeppers, she's gorgeous.    We had a lot of fun in Arizona, even tho both of us were sick during our honeymoon.  I was still recovering from Mono and she had bronchitis.    Oh well... we loaded up with pharmaceuticals to deaden the symptoms and chose to enjoy ourselves anyway.  It's easy to ignore said symptoms when you're blasting around in the sunshine in a top-down Corvette.