Seven months after we returned from Europe (yeah, I’m slacking on the photos), our honeymoon pictures are finally online. Select a photo to go to that picture in Flickr where you’ll have easy access to the rest of our shots from that city. Or you can view the entire collection here.

Madrid

Zaragoza

La Torre del Visco

Barcelona

Paris

Dear recipient,

Happy holidays to you and yours and maybe even theirs.

Our highlight of 2007 was that in September Zach bought an iPhone we got married (but that should be obvious because of the lack of ethnic, gender, and sexual-deviant jokes herein; complaints to Margaret). We had a wonderful honeymoon, traveling to Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris for two weeks (although our livers left after 10 days). If we met you in Madrid on Sept. 25, do get in touch; we’re curious as to how we made it back to our hotel.

Margaret continues to make the world a better place by being cheery, making delicious rum balls, and killing off species (toodle-oo polar bear). Save rectifying problems with semicolons, Zack didn’t do much to improve mankind’s lot this year. But unlike previous years he didn’t do much to make it worse either (we’re sure you remember his role in the Alexandria beer hall putsch of 2005). And for that Margaret is thankful—and deserves credit.

If we had children, we’d talk about them here. But we don’t, so we’ll continue in our self-indulgent yuppie ways and go on about ourselves. For personal betterment Margaret enrolled in wine-tasting classes this year (spring and fall semesters). She aced Spanish reds and sparkling wines, but only earned a B+ in French whites—a deficiency she’s correcting by drinking studying them nightly. Zac’s biggest achievement in 2007 was basking in the reflected glories of Tom Brady and David Ortiz. Oh, but what reflected glories they were! And as a couple, we’re proud to have earned the title of “regulars” at no less than three restaurants.

We also had good times with our family and friends this year. Margaret fulfilled a lifelong dream when we attended the Kentucky Derby this spring. And Xach now has 67 friends on his MySpace page, which, through a series of coincidence and happenstance, led him to fulfill one of his life goals—meeting Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen.

As for 2008, after spending the holidays with our collected families, we’ll be recouping in Miami over New Years. And it seems likely that Margaret will have a 45-day temporary assignment in Hawaii this January and February. Yes, Xack will be joining her (someone needs to man the hotel room’s tiki bar). Don’t rob our apartment while we’re gone—unless you’re going to clear out Margaret’s muck.

We wish you good health and fortune for 2008. Your lucky numbers are 3, 7, 12, 22, 33, 41, and 42.

From,

Margaret and Zaq

(If you’re wondering about the first word in the title, it’s the phonetic spelling for how my dad says the word “pictures.”)

We took about 1,000 pictures on our honeymoon (which was fantastic), and we’re expecting to receive about 800 pictures of the ceremony and reception from the wedding photographer any day now. It’ll take us a few days to sort through them, adding captions and deleting the less-than-flattering pics of ourselves though.

The Hamilton Crowne Plaza hotel, where we secured a discounted rate for our wedding guests, just sent us the list of rooms already reserved on our block. As of this morning, half of it is full. So if you haven’t made your accommodations and are planning on staying at the Hamiton Crowne Plaza, you might want to do so soon.

Also, the hotel has been extending the discounted rate to additional nights should you want to stay longer to enjoy Washington, DC. Margaret and I aren’t leaving for our honeymoon until Monday, September 24, so if you’re thinking of staying over Sunday (or even just leaving late that day) please let us know. We’d love to hang out with you!

Of course, if you’d like to save even more money, you could just sleep on the Metro.