There are the typical things brides worry about as the day gets closer. Is everything booked? Is the schedule/day of plans good? Will vendors and guests show up on time? How do I logistically coordinate all these small little aspects. For the most part, I think we have these things well handled. There was a slight worry with the planning as I didn't realize where we wanted to take the parents for lunch on Friday was as far as it was from the nail place, but luckily I was able to push back the nail appointment. There have just been these small but manageable, oh wait this isn't going to work or we should do this moments.
But there are two things I couldn't even imagine I'd have to worry about/come-up with back-up plans for that have presented themselves in the past few weeks. The first, I think is completely manageable and we already have a potential solution to. In exciting news, NY has finally allowed same-sex marriage! The law happens to take effect the day after our wedding, so I'm a bit concerned at how busy some of the clerks offices may be leading up to that date. As Tim and I won't both be in the state until the Thursday before the wedding and there is a 24 hour waiting period from the time you get the license until you can get married, that leaves us a window of about 6 business hours to get to a clerks office and get the license. I'm just worried the lines might be busier than normal. But we have found one smaller clerks office, that does marriage licenses by appointment only so we can reserve a time to get it done. I think we might just go that route so there will be no worry or stress when I get in.
Which leads to my main worry, that I have very little control over and can develop a plan B for as it would be out of my hands; our airport flooding. For the past month we have watched the Missouri River rise but have been told that it was going to affect the Iowa side more. Well apparently that seems to be changing as rain water and the rising ground water level have started causing issues in Omaha. Of course the airport happens to be surrounded on three sides by the river an has been working really hard to secure the levees, add pumps and build wells (for the rising ground water). It really seems like they are working to bail out a sinking ship. While all the news reports seem optimistic that they will stay ahead of the water, it's not going away any time soon. It seems to have gotten bad enough, that the city just sent out flood evacuation information flyers to areas that would be affected should the levees fail which includes the airport. So I just keep crossing my fingers that the airport will be open for both of us to fly out in a couple of weeks. Even if it is open to fly out, a coworker made a good point about parking the car there in case it floods while we are gone. So now we are trying to figure out a way that isn't super expensive to get to and from the airport without us having to drive. I really don't want to spend my honeymoon worrying if I'll get back to find my car under water. Part of me just wishes if it's going to happen, that it happens soon as we'll have more time to figure out a plan B. There's a small airport at Lincoln but that can't handle a lot of traffic. Kansas City which is much bigger than Omaha and could handle the traffic is now really hard to get to as the interstate heading down there is closed for the majority of the way so the 3 hour drive now takes 5-6. That leaves Des Moines which could be doable, we'd just have to get hotel the day before. But sadly there is nothing to really do besides keep an eye on it and hope we can fly out. Ugh
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