Do You Know Your...?

Back in July Mr. Milk and I decided that we would take four days moving from San Francisco to Vancouver and drive up the West Coast. We love road trips, and other than the occasional cranky mood due to lack of good sleep or need for caffeine, we get along brilliantly on them. It was a beautiful trip and I recommend it highly to anyone interested. The CA coast is beautiful but the Oregon Coast is beautiful beautiful!

But since this was going to be a long trip, we thought we should have some options of things to do while in the car, other than the typical 20 questions. So we found these in a bookstore:

There are a bunch of multiple choice questions that you need to answer for your partner, and hopefully get most right! It was silly fun and we have pulled these out a couple of times since our trip and "played" with other couples too (Mr. Milk thinks it was more fun that way). 

What a Monday! First Award!

What a way to start the week! I just received my very first blogger award courtesy of Stacey Marie from You Can't Take It With You (check out her blog)!

What I have to do:

• Post 7 facts about myself
• Pass this award on to 7 amazing bloggers

So here it goes!

1. I love dogs! I could have a farm of them and be completely content! I have 2 back in Cyprus and miss them dearly!
2. I am a food/dessert snob. I eat lunch and am planning what to eat for dinner. But it has to be good food/dessert. No Hershey's Kisses for this one. I could hang out in a supermarket for hours (as Mr. Milk can attest)!
3. I lived in San Francisco for 5 years and never went to Alcatraz. 
4. I grew up in Saudi Arabia. Although I haven't been back in over a decade, I would really love to visit again sometime soon. I'm sure its very different now...
5. I love shoes! Which girl doesn't! ;-) If heels weren't so bad for you I'd wear them all the time! 
6. I claim to be a PC but secretly use my fiances Mac all the time! (even right now!)
7. Hmmm...no. 7... Lets see... We did not want to get married on the ever popular 10/10/10 because that will be my 30th birthday! And I didn't want to be getting one less present ;)

I am passing this award on to the following people for their beautiful blogs, thoughtful posts, support, and inspiration...

Cassandra at Sassy Bride on a Mission. I enjoy reading her blog and she tipped me off to Blogger Brides.

Maria at The Carosello Wedding. Her blog is super cute and I encourage you to check it out.

Katerina at Girl With A Ring. She has great wedding ideas and is another blogger whose blog  I follow religiously.

Cheap Fiancee cause I love her motto "If I want to be a rich wife later, I need to be a cheap fiancee now" and her huge family (can totally relate!)

Christy at Christy and David. They are having a Disney theme and I LOVE Disney!

Sarah at Blue Ridge Baker. Her posts make me drool all over my keyboard (yes thats a good thing).

Adventures in Wedding Planning. You need to check out how creative she is!

I started my own blog because I was so inspired by reading others blogs. Thanks ladies for making the blog writing experience a great one!

Happy Birthday Sis!

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For my lil sista

Featured Bride on Weddzilla!

Hi Everyone! 

I am really excited about being the newest featured bride on Weddzilla and wanted to share this with you. Go right here to check out my introductory post and all the other great bride posts!

The Launch of Fridays With Mr. Milk

Since Chocolate Lover moved to Vancouver to be with me things have been different. We are finally together after so many years of long distance, and funnily enough, since she's come here we've done nothing else but travel! Well, let's pause for a second because this is my time to speak my mind. I get the Friday guest post on what seems to be my fiance's newfound hobby: blogging about the wedding, thereby effectively documenting every-step-of-the-way-to-the-alter! 

I'll dedicate this week's post on praising Chocolate Lover on how fast she's learned to blog. From the two of us, I've definitely been the one to claim the techno-geek title. Things are different now. She's learned how to adapt a template by rationalizing HTML coding, how to customize her blog's layout, and how to participate in the blogosphere in order to drive traffic to her blog. I'm beginning to feel that I'll be dating a celebrity soon, and frankly, although some people may find blogging to be an odd hobby, I think it's one of the coolest, most 'with the times' thing anyone could do. So if Chocolate Lover's newfound 'obsession' isn't proof of her adapting to my techno-geek personality, then I don't know what is! 

To whomever is reading this, I promise I'll keep my guest posts related only to the theme of this blog, and that I'll keep the techno-talk for my blog (hint, hint) [What? Can't a guy put a plug in for his blog? (still a work in progress by the way)].

Until next Friday, this is Mr. Milk signing off. 

Problem Fixed

It was recently brought to my attention that the comments feature was not working on my blog. Ironically Mr. Milk had noticed this a while back but had not mentioned it. Men! :) 

So just wanted to let you all know that the problem has been fixed, and encourage you to comment away :)

Traditional Wedding Favors

In Cyprus there is a traditional wedding favor known as lokoumia or kourambiedes, aka Mexican Wedding Cookies and Russian Tea Cakes! Who knew! This little cookie transcends borders, cultures, traditions! The only problem? We don't like them :) 

A quick google search revealed that these little gems were reserved for special occasions, such as weddings, because at the time, the ingredients were expensive - butter, sugar, nuts. Also, the nuts were supposed to represent the fertility while the sugar symbolizes the sweet life journey the couple are embarking on.   

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While these are the most commonly given favor in Cyprus, and to some extent, the expected favor, most people don't eat them. There have been many a time that both our parents fridges have had 5-6 on these babies just sitting there. No one wants to eat them. Especially if it's into wedding season and they've had a few already. My mom places them between jars on the fridge door so that the jars don't move and fall out! Ironically, when discussing this with our parents, both were in favor of having these favors (!) while admitting that they don't eat them either! This was very amusing for Mr. Milk and I. 

So we want to have something that is more representative of us. We do want to stick to something edible as we feel that many favors are tossed aside or guests don't have much use for them. What our favors will be is still to be determined. Thoughts include american-style chocolate chip cookies symbolizing my love for chocolate and my time spent in the USofA, or the very Canadian maple syrup representing Mr. Milk's time in Canada. We shall see...

What are you thinking about for wedding favors, if anything at all?