Honeymooners

Let me just start off by saying...honeymoons are the BEST things ever invented. After months of staying busy planning a wedding (and still carrying on with all the normal daily tasks)...I was BEYOND ready to have a getaway where I could just turn my phone off and relax for a change. But the best thing about it all, was that I got to spend that relaxing week with my husband. It was the perfect week. I wish it never had to end.

After our reception on Saturday in Hurricane, we drove to Las Vegas to catch our red-eye flight. It was awesome..we got there basically just in time to walk right on the plane (no sitting around in the airport...yay) and there was just the 2 of us on a row of 3, so Jase slept leaning against the window and I laid down on his lap. WE SLEPT GREAT! And we needed it. We both were just exhausted from all the wedding festivities.

Once we got to Florida (Sunday morning) we took a taxi to go get on the cruise ship. I had been on one other cruise before but it was when I was in 6th grade so I was totally giddy. I was smiling from ear to ear and squealing. Jase was just laughing at me. We got on the ship and seriously crashed for HOURS. We were still so tired and needed to catch up on our sleep. After that we finally felt rested and were ready for the vacation to officially begin!

Monday we were in Key West. It was the cutest little island that I love so much. All the old buildings were adorable. I'm prettty sure we walked around the entire island that day... (; The weather was nice and hot and HUMID! Holy cow..my hair suffered this entire trip from the humidity. It was always super frizzy and...not cute. But hey..you're on vacation...you don't have to get ready right? (: We mostly just enjoyed the sight seeing around the island this day and took it easy.

Jase's favorite part of Key West was the cute Wendy's!

I loved all the cute buildings in Key West..they were adorable & of course the grey & purple house would be my favorite (:

View of Key West, it was gorgeous!

Next stop (Wednesday) was Grand Cayman Island. We woke up that morning and it was completely down pouring. We got on the little boat that takes you from the cruise ship to land and it was probably the scariest 10 minutes of my life. It was raining so hard and we were trusting this little boat to bare the bad weather and get us to land safely. NOT FUN. Everyone was soaked and a bunch of people decided to just stay on the boat and head back to the cruise ship...but not us! We were not about to let the rain ruin our one day we had on this beautiful island. In reality, it was almost better having it be rainy and overcast all day because it made it not so miserably hot. We spent the first half of the day walking around the island and looking at all the little tourist shops. Then we decided we were going to go to "Stingray City" and swim with stingrays. Holy cow, I was SO NERVOUS! First, we were taking a boat ride out into the middle of the ocean when it was SO stormy that day. Second, you get out in the middle of the ocean and there's a sandbar that you just swim on and hold stingrays...no big deal right? Seriously, I was freaking out! Jase had done this once before so he was calm...but not me. It took me a while to warm up to the fact that we were swimming with stingrays out in the middle of the ocean. It ended up being an AMAZING experience and it was so beautiful being completely surrounded by water and not being able to see land anywhere. After Stingray City, we got to go snorkeling for a little and that too was amazing! At first, I was thinking that we wouldn't see much but the second we got our gear on and got in the water, I was pleasantly surprised. It was so cool to see all the different fish. I wished so badly that we would have taken a waterproof camera. We could have got some awesome pictures.

Our final stop on the cruise was Jamaica (Thursday). We had heard in Grand Cayman that Jamaica was kind of a sketchy place and that we needed to be careful there, so I was semi-freaking out when we got there. But honestly, I never felt like we were in danger or anything like that while we were there. Jamaica was SO BEAUTIFUL! It was so green and I would absolutely love to go back someday and get the chance to stay for longer than one day. For our excursion this day, we decided to go to the famous Dunns River Falls. It was AMAZING! It's this beautiful waterfall that you get to hike. At first when we got in the water it was freezing but by the end it felt great because it was so so hot in Jamaica!!! Climbing Dunns River Falls was a great experience that everyone needs to do sometime in their life! The Jamaican people were more than I could handle. They were SO kind but boy do they pressure you into buying all their random trinkets that they have for sale. They kept saying "Come take a look at what I got, no pressure here to buy, just take a look" YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! They would not let you leave their little shop without buying something. We got suckered into buying so much random stuff. One guy asked what our names were and within seconds he had our names carved into these woods figurines ( No pressure to buy them, right?) So of course, we bought those and plenty of other stuff. I think we spent more money that day on souvenirs than we did on both excursions. I loved all the things the Jamaicans would say, they are funny people ("yeah man", "the Jamaicans have no worries, just situations", calling all the girls "boss lady"). It was great! I loved Jamaica!

Dunn's River Falls

The water was FREEZING!

 

Take me back!!

When we got off the ship on Saturday we had ALL DAY til we had our flight home. Seriously our flight didn't leave til 9 pm and we were not about to sit at the airport for 12 hours. We asked around about what we should do and found out that there was a free trolley from the airport to the beach. We decided to take that and go see the beach, do a little shopping, and get some lunch. I loved the beach in Florida so much, I wish we would have known that we were going to spend the day there so we could have worn our swimsuits, but we had already checked our bags before we knew, so that was a bummer. However, we made the best of our day in Florida and had some delicious nachos by the beach.

 

Seriously our honeymoon was the best week ever, we had so much fun and it was so great to spend time together, just the two of us. We made so many fun memories that we will never forget and we can't wait to plan another trip just the two of us (:

For some reason we were just loving all the towel animals