Wedding Bells x 2

Good news - my cousin Betsy is getting married! She'll make a breathtaking bride, and her manpanion ain't too shabby either... :-)

Passport Blues

We have both gotten our passports!. All things considered, Andy got his passport in pretty good time. In fact, he got his passport before he got his inquiry back from the passport tracking site. My passport took a little longer because my certified birth certificate was not sufficient, and I had to send in some official documentation that my parents really, really wanted to and did, in fact, actually adopt me. Never mind that they fed, clothed and in general put up with me for something going on 28 years. Anyway, said document was located and sent off post haste to Uncle Sam. I did have some reservations that, due to increases in the homeland security threats, I might be deported back to Korea. This would have been problematic, mostly since I'm just about as Korean as your TV. OK, bad example, your TV probably is Korean, but in your living room it speaks pretty much just English. Just like me! And although it is highly unlikely, I wouldn't put it past our lovely President to mistake me for an undercover North Korean agent, so deep undercover that I can't use chopsticks or do kung fu. But luckily, I must have slipped through the cracks and received my passport a few weeks after Andy. Mission, accomplished. Now all we need is a destination for our honeymoon. But it's good to know that once we pick a place, we'll be able to actually cross a border and get a purtty stamp.

Yummy Yummy in Your Tummy!

OK, my new favorite wedding thing to do is to go cake tasting. More correctly, cupcake tasting. After just having tasted 12 yummy mini cupcakes from St. Cupcake, I'm pretty a pretty happy camper. And I'm sure you will be, too! Extra fun: you can sit at the cupcake bar and watch the bakers make the cupcakes right in front of you. We got a glance at the recipe book and can now tell you that one of their frostings contains 6 lbs of butter. Well, actually pretty much everything contains 6 lbs of butter, which is why they had trays and trays of the stuff in the kitchen. And that's how kitchens should be!

Some of our personal favorites (flowery descriptions courtesy of saintcupcake.com):

toasted coconut cream (Andy's Favorite)

buttery vanilla cupcake with toffee chips baked right in, then topped our classic vanilla cream cheese icing and hand toasted coconut flakes. a written description will not do this cake justice.
if you are one of those people who “does not like coconut”, then great. more for us!

vanilla-toffee with chocolate buttercream (Jackie's Fave)

buttery vanilla cupcake baked with toffee chips right in, iced with our fluffy chocolately buttercream and sprinkled with crispy toffee bits. it’s for when you’re feeling sophisticated.