A new addition to our family!

After a wonderful wedding and fabulous honeymoon, the next thing we wanted to do was get a dog. Our first weekend back in town we took a trip over to the Boxer Rescue Los Angeles and adopted the best boy doggie we could have ever hoped for. Porto (formerly known as JR by the rescue) is a 2 year old, with great manners, lots of energy and is fun, playful and very loving! He has been with us only a week and a half now and is adjusting quite well. He seems very happy to be part of the Southern California Feldman family unit and we feel lucky to have found him :) Stay tuned for more pics....

Happy!

Many thanks to Alex for the wonderful wedding photos. He did a great job of capturing the evening. To view the slide show, please click here.

Honeymoon in Costa Rica

We are back from our week honeymoon in Costa Rica. The adventure was everything we had hoped for. We took over 300 pictures, here is a sampling from the trip, enjoy!

Arriving in Liberia, 1 hour north from Tamarindo our beach destination.

Our hotel in Tamarindo - Cala Luna. It was an amazing place, very romantic, quiet and 1/2 mile from the busy tourist area. The Cala Luna is located about 500 meters from the beautiful beach of Playa Longosta.

Finishing our first meal. We found the food excellent - a lot of rice, beans, quacamole, salsa and fresh fish.

We took this picture at Dragonfly a great restaurant in Tamarindo. We would also highly reccomend Kahiki(we ate there 2 nights in a row), Lola's in Avellanes and Treehouse in Monteverde. Dragonfly and Kahiki were recommended by the Savini's, a really nice family we met and hungout with from Jersey - Daniel, Noel, Amanda, and Ryan, thanks for a really fun Saturday night, we have to do it again soon.

Surfboard fence :)

Off to Monteverde Rain Forest

After 3 nights on the coast, we headed inland to the rain forest. The best analogy we could make was, its like going from SoCal to NoCal. Our favorite part of the drive was the crappy roads - extreme 4 wheelin'!

Traffic jam on the way to Monteverde.

Our hotel room in the rain forest

ribbbbit...ribbbbit....

Beautiful.

Monkeys are everywhere in CR, atleast that's what they say. The only monkeys we saw were in the rain forest, they were throwing stuff at us.

Canopy tour - there were 6 Indiana Jones style bridges suspended over the rain forest.

Marie Ziplineing over the rain forest

Back to Tamarindo

Hammock time

Ken taking off in Avellanes

Lola's in Avellanes, hangin with their pet pig. If you are in CR Lola's is a must!

Toca - We are going to miss Kenneth who we met at the Cala Luna, he took us surfing at Avellanes, and was an all around great guy!

The Last Sunset - goodbye CR

Just Married

We are off to Costa Rica in 1 hour, Marie is reading me the surf report right now, I'm getting pretty stoked!!!
A HUGE thank you to everyone for last night, that was the best night of our lives. We wanted to throw a party and got everything we wished for. See you when we get back, i'm sure Alex will have some pictures for us to post.

Saturday April 5th

I've had lots of questions today about the time and place of the wedding.
Everyone should be at the Porfofino Hotel and Yacht Club in Redondo Beach on Saturday, April 5th at 5pm. The wedding and reception are in the ballroom building, and will finish at 12pm. For directions to the Portofino, visit their website(link above).

The Cast and Crew

Now that the big day is around the corner we wanted to formally introduce you to our wedding party:

Ken’s Parents: David and Sue Feldman and Mike Neidenberg- in from St. Louis
Marie’s Parents: Ed and Judy Chrabaszewski- in from San Francisco
Ushers: Cory Feldman and Rick Feldman-brothers of Ken, in from Florida and St. Louis
Bridesmaid: Holly Eichelle- Ken’s sister, in from Ohio
Maid of Honor: Caryn Fishler- a dear friend of Marie’s here in Los Angeles
Groomsman: Mark Branstetter- a long time friend of Ken’s, in from St. Louis
Best Man: Bob Feldman- Ken’s brother, in from Chicago
The Conductor
Volker Schramm is a friend of ours who has agreed to be the officiant for our wedding. He is the husband of Marie’s friend Stephanie from college and has been doing weddings for the last few years, one of which Marie attended and was very impressed. He is a great speaker who has a unique and wonderful way of conducting ceremonies. We are lucky to have him!