Chapter 2 – About Santiago

Life In Chile

Chapter 2 – About Santiago 
(November 2013)

9 and a bit Months to go

My first few days in Santiago have been interesting.

I’m going to sound like an absolute wally by writing the next part but I am just going to be honest! When I thought about moving to Santiago I was terrified. Here are my reasons why:

1.     Distance

2.     Thinking we were going to be living in a Shanty town

3.     No technology or internet

4.     Language barrier (even since being here we have been told Chile is probably the hardest place to learn and understand Spanish due to how fast they speak and its quite slang Spanish! UH OH!)

  

I think I will stop before you all mock me :)

But after being here for a few days I was definitely wrong. Santiago just reminds me of London but 30 degrees hotter :) haha! As you can tell by this internet blog they do have internet here!

It is definitely going to take a while to get used to how things work out here and to understand people. Honestly, I have never felt so alone as I do now as I feel my independence has been taken away completely. I love Josh and having him by my side but when he is at work I just want my friends and family to hang out with. I am too scared to walk outside incase I get lost and due to the language barrier and I cant ask anyone directions. It’s silly I know but I just hope I am going to be able to grow in confidence every day that I am out here, as I do not want to regret making the most of this experience. We are lucky to be able to attend the temple and church here and it is completely the same wherever in the world we will go apart from not understanding a word but I can still feel that the church is VERY true!!

But, it is a beautiful place and we are the luckiest couple to be having this experience especially before we have a family of our own.  

Good luck to us.

xXx

Chapter 1 – Leaving On A Jet Plane

Due to having SO much time on my hands I have NO excuse to not start blogging again and to keep it at least a monthly thing!! 

So here goes.

Life In Chile

Chapter 1 – Leaving On A Jet Plane 
(October 2013)

10 Months to go

Well, after waiting months AND months to have the all clear to leave for Chile, we are finally on our way. After saying goodbye to all the famlam about 20 million times, due to dates being changed, it was finally time to say Adios.

We were flying from London Heathrow at 09:25 with Delta Airlines. Who knew that when you fly nowadays that you have the widest selection of movies EVER and you can even start watching them before you have even taken off (I’m sorry to all the professional flyers out there who I am boring but I have not been on a plane for a while!). Also, can I add the best plane food EVER, Green Thai Chicken and rice. DELISH!

Our first stop over was at Detroit for 4 hours. Due to me being a food ADDICT I took some time before our trip to research the different fast food restaurants (Fat Kid at heart!!).

Food stop 1 = The Baconater at Wendy’s (with extra grease!) 

Our second stop over was at Atlanta for an hour. This was the stop over I was looking forward to the most but due to only having an hour stop over I wasn’t sure whether this second food stop was possible!! But, nothing will EVER get in the way of me and my second food stop!

Food stop 2 = Rice, Beijing Beef and Orange Chicken Combo at Panda Express.

I ran for my life and guess what we still made it to the plane with time to spare. But, as we had only eaten a few hours prior to this I was still stuffed so I left it for Breakfast :) Panda Express is still divine whatever the hour may be!

This last flight was amazing as we were able to share 4 seats between the two of us so we spread out and slept for pretty much the whole 8/9 hours!

Touch down in Chile!

Deep breath in.... 

Here goes an adventure of a lifetime!

The day before.......

2 days to go and we can finally set up our wedding Marquee. The Marquee was already up on Nettlestead Place so all we had to do was create a tent into an absolute jaw-dropping dream world J

We started with sticking down our evening dance floor with our beautiful silver initials. Thanks to our amazing Uncle David Fagg J

Then we added the carpet (I say we but we just watched the carpet being laid). The carpet where everyone were going to be seated was a white/cream colour and where the guests were going to be entering was a dark beige colour (knowing it would be raining and muddy) so the mud wouldn’t show up as much!

Once the carpet had been laid we could then add all the table and chairs. We had one long table, four round tables both sides, cake table and our top table.

Table and chairs set we were able to start and DIVA/Jenna everything up J White table clothes and cutlery laid by the caterers. 

Now the fun can begin.

We started with putting the menus out to everyone (can I just add these were all handcrafted by mummy and helped by Liane and I). We bought little stick-on diamantes and stuck them next to the guests dinner choice just incase they forgot and to help the caterers out for when they delivered the guests their food on our special day day J

 We also added to the table our favors, they were Lindt chocolate bars wrapped with the same paper format as our menus with the guests names on.

Then we had our table names, each card (same format as all the others) had a different song that Josh and I love. We had the title of the song and also our favourite lyrics from the song but with a twist J the title of the songs were written in Spanish J

Our flowers were created by the BEST florists ever, Girl Flower. Take a look at their Blog on our wedding.

http://www.girlflower.co.uk/blog/2012-10-12-a-whiter-shade-of-pale/

With everything set in the main reception we sprinkled thousands and thousands of different sized diamantes everywhere and added a couple of candles to the tables.

In the Entrance we had 6 white sofas for chilling J and an oval table where we put our wishing tree and our book for guests to sign that was beautifully created by Dalver Birak.

To display our table plan we bought a BEAUTIFUL full-length mirror where we could stick each table with our guests’ names on. So when our guests were trying to find where they were sitting they could fix their lipstick or moustache ;)

I’m not going to lie most of the last minute touches were done whilst I was sleeping, as the drastic weather was taking over the entire marquee. Mum, dad, Ryan, the mills boys and Jeremy helped created the finished masterpiece, the dry masterpiece! We are forever grateful.

I could not wait to see the finished product :)

 Bring on tomorrow (Our Wedding Day)

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