Sutich Wedding

I'd like to start off by thanking everyone who attended who shared in our special day, we are very blessed to have such amazing family and friends. I'd like to extend a special thank you to those who traveled from a far to join us on our wedding day.
Please see the following pictures that captured the essence of the day - Thank you facebook photographers!




Jeff and Jenny Wedding Bucket List

Our lives will be molded together on June 28, 2014. During the wedding reception we will have guests put our "wedding bucket list" together. As we grow young together we will complete each activity assigned to us and blog about each one.

Our first blog will be from our adventures during our Honeymoon on Mauritius and Madagascar.

We hope you enjoy reading about our life long adventures!

All our best,

Jeff and Jenny

We had such a blast looking at all the crazy endeavors we are about to embark on! A Big thank you to everyone that participated.  Wish us good luck!  (No Derrick Metz we will never have a pet spider! Sorry!)
Here is the list...
1.  Vist Australia and New Zealand
2.  Take the lady skydiving and get a pet spider
3.  Eat sushi on the west coast and east coast
4.  Jeff hug an alligator and Jenny watch
5.  Take us on one of your amazing trips-Ben and Arianna
6.  Go on a giraffe ride
7.  Cinque Terre, Italy
8.  Have 3 wonderful children
9.  Hold hands and stare up at the wonder of the aurora borealis
10.  Go on a scuba diving trip with Derrick and Jeanette.
11.  Go on a cruise with Megan and Kevin and parasail
12.  Snorkel in the Maldives
13.  Helicopter ride over Tahoe
14.  Visit me in Rymarov-my hometown in Czech Republic-Honza
15.  Pacific Coast Highway on a motorcycle
16.  Submarine ride in Hawaii
17.  Live with the Apes in Bora Bora
18.  Go Fishing on the Kenai River in Alaska for King Salmon
19.  Cruise Greek Isles
20.  Australia and the Great Barrier Reef
21.  Have a date once a month and take turns planning it
22.  Run a Marathon-Zach and Lydia
23.  Drive a race car together
24.  Kiss goodbye every morning
25.  Swimming or Kayaking in the Grand Canyon
26.  Children
27.  Come to our home for dinner!  Mike will cook the best steaks!
28.  Climb Mt. Everest
29.  Come to Nashville to visit me
30.  Give birth to twins
31.  Learn to speak another language together
32.  Hug a Penguin
33.  Have a kid! Best experience to change your life!
34.  Lose a bet to Alex & actually go abalone diving!  Jenny can hang with me while you dive!
35.  Go to Capitola, California and stay in the Venetian Court
36.  Take lots of time for each other!
37.  Bungee Jumping together
38.  Don't be afraid to change your plans live a little
39.  Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
40.  Run a marathon-Coach V
41.  Swim with sharks without the cage
42.  Passionate kiss at the top of the Eiffel Tower
43.  Go to the U.P. especially Marquette, MI-go cliff diving, hike sugar loaf and go mountain biking          at Marquette Mountain.  Stay at Landmark Inn.
44.  Come visit us in beautiful and sunny Florida-Siesta Key
45.  Buy me a gift. -Mike Workman
46.  Have children and raise them!  It is an adventure of a lifetime!
47.  Visit the Maldives and stay in the above water huts.
48.  Go on a Charles Stanley cruise.
49.  Underwater basket weaving, or not and say you did.
50.  Skydiving with Rebecca, Alex and Daniel.
51.  Build a guitar.
52.  Adopt a penguin and raise it from birth.  Must steal penguin from Antarctica after traveling to all
       7 continents.
53.  Jeff don't lose anymore fingers...j/k  Jenny grow taller than your husband haha and visit New              Zealand
54.  Learn how not to flatten car tires by hitting curbs in Iowa City-Neil Yoder

The Honeymoon!


We started off this adventure heading to Dubai with a looonnggg eight hour layover. Our plan was to visit the city, but low and behold, Jenny came down with Elephantiasis of the feet....GEWWWWW!!



Long flights don't seem to agree with her! After a couple hours, she could feel her feet again and now we know she needs to practice her track skills on the airplane rather than sitting for vast hours. With all that said... we didn't get to tour around Dubai and sat at a yummy Costa Coffee for the eight hours with her dumbo like tootsies extended on her suitcase above her heart. Hopefully we can hit Dubai up on the way back.



Jenny found her first camel in the Middle East.


Had fun getting around with this advanced interactive map!
Almost as cool as the ones in Hong Kong:)


Interesting architecture


4 hours and a snooze later still waiting for Jenny's feet to deflate.


Trying to watch the USA vs. Belguim World Cup game at an overcrowded Heineken bar.  The USA was not exactly a fan favorite.  Jeff and I represented as the only fans.


Welcome to the land of the Dodo...AKA Mauritius Island!

Mauritius, the land of the Dodo bird! We found this island paradise and all the fun activities it had to offer and HAD to visit it for our honeymoon. Mauritius is a part of the African Union and is located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. It is the second small island just past Madagascar.



One fun fact we learned while on the island is that the Dodo bird only resided on the Island of Mauritius and went extinct when the Dutch of the 1800's found a fancy to their chicken like meat.



This adventure took place upon exciting the airport. We had the grand idea of renting a car in order to save some $$ and not have to purchase a taxi each time we wanted to go out and explore. The initial process was easy, and them only having standard transmission cars was okay too as I've driven a stick shift once or twice...however....something seemed amiss when we peered into that tiny Peugeot rental car.

The steering wheel being on the right hand side of the car with the stick on the left definitely made my heart jump! We were about to have a "British" style driving experience.

Peeling out of the parking lot while only killing the car twice wasn't the first of the heart-wrenching experiences soon to be had. It was the street sign with a giant exclamation mark on it right before a round about.  

Mauritius Road Signs - Warning Sign - Other dangers.svg

After seeing these signs periodically throughout the country, I came to realize that they were "Oh $!@#$%" signs... which is what our first reaction was entering that round about and looking left instead of right turning the wrong direction in it.

We quickly discovered that the rules of the road were quite a bit different than we were used to and immediately flipped around heading in the correct, left side of the road, and started yielding right after coming within inches of T-boning a small blue sedan.  Good thing I'm a twin and have 12 lives!! Purchasing full insurance was helpful too!

The next hour and 30 min drive through small towns around the outside of the island heading toward our seaside resort was the longest most intense time of our lives. Skydiving, cliff jumping, Crocodile swimming, and almost crashing airplanes have nothing on that Peugeot experience! Maneuvering through skinny streets with 3 ft cement ditches on either side, dodging on coming traffic (of oncoming cars in our lane), vespas, bicycles, dogs, and people who expected me to drive like a local gave me the ability to up my Mauritius driving learning curve! It was that or be equivalent to a bug smashed against the front of that oncoming bus that missed us by only inches (My bad though because I was in his lane)!

I will have to be a bit prideful now, I am excited to state that I only clipped 2 cars, 1 dog, was honked at 3 times for driving in the wrong lane, and chased only 5 pedestrians off the road during the week we were there. SUCCESS!!






 A view of the Indian Ocean from our balcony.


Nothing like a delicious meal to fuel the jet lag.

We saw some of the most amazing sunrises from our hotel room.  Jenny made sure to wake up every morning to catch God's breathtaking beauty on camera. (only mildly obsessed:))