Feeling: married
Listening to: construction crew outside the hotel; sexy, huh?
Reading/Watching: nothing

Since you don't want a big descriptive detailing of the week (especially since it's not finished), I'll just give out awards for Bests and Worsts, Mosts and Leasts.

Honeymoon Activity Most Often Indulged in: Sleeping in

Activity Least Often Indulged in: Eating right

Best Part About Being on a Honeymoon: People stop giving you weird looks for being in a winery at 2:00 on a Tuesday

Worst Part About Being on a Honeymoon: You can't really call or visit friends the whole week, because it's your honeymoon and you feel like it would be cheating.

Coolest "What are YOU doing here?!" Moment: My-cousin's-wife's-sister, showing up for karaoke night in a teensy pizza joint in Johnson City (there was karaoke and pizza. Katie HAD to do it).

Best Honeymoon Food: Myron's Steak House in New Braunfels (best $100 meal we've ever had)

Worst Honeymoon Food: Steaks-To-Go in New Braunfels (we pulled a Gilmore Girls and ordered everything we wanted to taste, except it was ALL bad)

Best Honeymoon Beverage: Piney Woods Pecan Mocca dessert wine from the Grapevine in Gruene (it tastes like chocolate and coffee!)

Worst Honeymoon Beverage: 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke from a Blockbuster in New Braunfels, which appeared to have passed its freshness date in Feb 2005 (I'm not guessing: that's what was stamped on the bottle).

Best Movie: Proof, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal

Worst Movie: The Wild, with people whose voice talents I won't humiliate by listing here (except the Eddie Izzard koala, and he was only funny because we kept hearing Dressed to Kill references)

Most Pleasant Honeymoon Surprise: the pretty hailstorm that kept us trapped in a coffee shop, sipping warm drinks and playing on the wi-fi

Least Pleasant Honeymoon Surprise: "You mean when you pay $50 per person at Medieval Times and get greasy slabs of meat thrown at you over a two-hour period (with no drink refills), the waitress still expects a tip?!" (Seriously. They claim it's their entire income.)

Funny-Ha-Ha Hotel Moment: The Wedding Night Champagne Explosion of 2006.

Funny-Weird Hotel Moment: Maids that knock quietly and then just come right on in so that we hide under the covers and yell "Occupied!!"

What We Expected to Do a Lot (and Did): Pay high prices for hotels, eat too much, and groan over gas prices

What We Expected to Do a Lot (and Didn't): Use our bathing suits

What We Didn't Expect to Do (and Did): Find a surprisingly authentic Japanese/Korean restaurant in Copperas Cove (mon coeur got his Asian food fix; he was so happy)

Piece of Luggage We Should Have Left Behind: my fancier outfits. With the exception of the steakhouse, this has really been a casual-wear kind of trip

Piece of Luggage We Should Have Brought: Spare bag for souvenirs or dirty clothes

Piece of Luggage We Thank God Daily For Remembering to Bring: the computer bag, with the laptop, wireless card, power cord, and speakers

Honeymoon Perks We Kinda Expected (and Didn't Get): free room upgrades, meals, whatever. We got a dessert once, at the steakhouse. But we're not sure whether he just forgot to add it to the tab.

Honeymoon Perks We Didn't Expect: Making reservations for Mr. and Mrs., and still getting all excited over saying it. Looking at him in the car and saying, "Hee. You're my husband." Getting to whine, "Can you please pull over and let your poor wife go tinkle?" And when he grins and echoes, "My wife..." I smile and reply, "Yes, it's nice, sweetie, but about the other thing I mentioned...?"

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