Honeymooners- Part 2

Who's ready for part 2?! Better than part one (much), although still kind of unfortunate.

Imagine yourself going on a cruise to the Bahamas. What do you pack? Swimsuits, short sleeves, shorts. Now imagine you're from Utah. Do you pack warm clothes? No, why would you? A cruise means chillaxing in the pool on the top deck and laying out on the sand in the Bahamas.

That's what we thought.

Here we are in our warm weather attire on the shuttle to the cruise, filled with high hopes! I still felt like I was going to puke but the hopes were high that I wouldn't!




Here I am on the boat, enjoying some water. Why am I wearing a sweatshirt you ask?


What seems wrong this with this picture? When you look at it you may be thinking, "are they on an Alaskan cruise?" or "is that Utah Lake behind you?". No, folks. We were on day 2 of our 4-day cruise, smack dab in the beautiful Bahamas. And it was COLD. If Richard, the boy who wears basketball shorts all year-round, has a coat on, you know it's cold. Apparently it was the coldest there that's it's been in T-W-E-N-T-Y years. It was also very windy as evidenced by my hair almost getting blown off my head in this picture. We have really good luck.

Luckily for us, we were on a cruise so there was lots of cool stuff to do inside!


Our first day at the Bahamas (we spent 2 days at sea just hanging out in the ship) we went snorkeling! For some reason we were convinced that it would be warmer in the bahamas than it was on our ship...

wrong again!

here we are pre-snorkeling adventure, just chillin in the bahamas. we spent quite a while wandering around the town, since we could only handle about half an hour at the beach in the cold.


this is Junkanoo beach! It's pretty, huh? If it weren't so cloudy and cold it would've been really fantastic. It was still fun to be at a beach and see the water and sand and whatnot that we never do in Utah! We loved it.

At this point I was asking myself "is there any way people are actually going snorkeling today?". Don't let our attire fool you, it was really cold. I think I saw one person get in the water at the beach. So the thought of immersing ourselves in the water to see some fish wasn't exactly appealing. The thought of missing it and wasting 60 dollars was also not appealing, so we went.

Even on the ship I thought for sure that no one was going to get in the water. How could they? Everyone was huddled together in their towels with their jackets on on the boat ride to the reef where we were going to be snorkeling. No one could possibly get in the water, right?


While taking this picture, my body was literally convulsing because it was so cold. Call us idiots, but we got in.
The water was actually warmer than the air, I think. Thankfully it's usually (every other day of the year than the 2 that we were there) warm there, so the water's pretty warm. If you'll notice, Richard's not wearing his mask in the picture. We found out that he gags every time the mask goes on his face. This both made me sad for him and made me laugh hysterically. I was mostly sad though because it meant he didn't really get to snorkel at all :( I know a thing or two about the gag reflex from my major in speech pathology, and I've been trying since this day to figure out how that mask that didn't even go in his mouth could trigger a gag, but I'm coming up short. He says it's genetic..?

This was the aftermath:

"Richard, can you tell how cold I am in the picture?"

you really can't. but once again, convulsions were happening. The boat ride back was pretty cold too, since we were wet, but once we got back to our room and showered it was all good. I blow dryed myself after my shower for about 20 mins. Not my hair, just everything. I guess I broke it because it hasn't worked since, but that's another story.

the bahamas were really fun! lots of live music and shops with homemade things in them.

wanna meet some of the ones we got? well you can't because the video won't upload. but we got some pretty amazing treasures. 2 wooden turtles and some kind of dolphin thing that now reside on top of our desk.

annnyway, now that i've said to myself "what am i doing wasting my time on this blog" about a dozen times, I will wrap up this post.

We loved the Bahamas and our cruise, and even though everything didn't go like we planned, it really was a good time. The great thing about Richard is we can do pretty much anything and it's so much fun, just because we love being with each other. And that's all there is to it!

Honeymooners- Part 1

Well, the day has finally come. We have a blog. I've been wanting one for a while, but who would really have wanted to read about what I do by myself?

Mostly I want to just document this first little year of marriage and I'm not such a good journal writer, so here we are!

The only way to start off a blog about our new marriage is, of course, to blog about our HONEYMOON!

So our honeymoon was going to be really great. We were the subject of envy of most of our friends and relatives because the plan was that we would, thanks to some very generous donations, fly to Orlando, hang out at Disneyworld for a few days, and then take off on our cruise to the Bahamas!


This is what really happened. We stayed in our hotel in Salt Lake the night of our wedding, then took off to Orlando the next day.

Here we are on the plane! Probably really annoying everyone around us. But hey, we're newlyweds, of course we're going to be giggling and talking the whole time. This pic is one of my favorites because of our bff behind us.

When we got to Orlando (around 2 a.m.), we picked up this little beauty.
Richard looked mm mm good behind the wheel of that thing, I'll tell ya what. We weren't expecting a mini van, but it was one of 3 cars left on the lot for us to choose from. We got in it to begin the florida leg of our trip and noticed an exclamation mark ! light on the dash. Suspicious. We asked the lady who worked in the lot what the deal was and she said it was "fine" so we thought nothing of it and kept on going! After that we went to downtown Orlando, where our hotel was, and went to Walmart. Let me just say that Walmart in Orem at 2 am is NOT the same as Walmart in downtown Orlando at 2 am.

"I think it might be really dangerous for us to be here right now..."- Richard. Live and learn, right? Nobody shot us up so it was all good.

About 2 hours later, on New Year's Eve morning, I woke up in our hotel room feeling nauseated. That's when the real fun began. I guess the sound of me puking woke Richard up, so we spent that night on the bathroom floor in the Travelodge. I threw up for about 8 hours, a couple times an hour. Woof. Not the highlight of our honeymoon, that's for sure. And can I just tell you that I can count on one hand the number of occasions that I've thrown up in my life?! Lame!

I was pretty bummed because we were supposed to be going to Disneyworld that day to spend New Year's Eve there, with all the fireworks and parades and whatnot. Instead, we spent the entire day in the hotel. Richard was probably also really disappointed, but he didn't show it. What a great guy. If the roles had been reversed, I don't know that I would've handled it as well as he did... :)

So I'm lying on the couch watching the music countdown or something, feeling like my body's on fire, and Richard goes to get some medicine and food for me from the store. I get a call a little while later, stumble over to my phone to pick it up and Richard tells me the tire on our rental car has gone flat. Not like it needed a little bit of air, more like it was completely drained of all air and was literally flat on the road. I guess the middle pin came out when he was trying to fill it up at the gas station because it was almost completely flat. Apparently that little exclamation mark light was correct. So if that wasn't bad enough, apparently the rental car had no spare tire in it. I think that's against the law. So poor Richard had to wait for an hour at this gas station at about 10 pm on New Years Eve for the tow truck to come and give us a different car. Bummer. Unfortunate event #2.

The next day I was able to at least eat some food and felt good enough to move around. We decided that, since our trip had been sort of lame/awful to this point, we should go out for a nice dinner and have some fun, since the next day we'd be getting on our cruise. So we went to the Black Angus Steakhouse

I think I ate about 5 bites of my food. Since I hadn't eaten the day before I wasn't able to gorge myself like I usually would but it was so nice to get out of that dang Travelodge. We roamed around Orlando in our lovemobile (the car they gave us as a replacement was, to our delight, also a minivan). One of us (me) had the great idea that we should try to see Disneyworld, since we will probably never get to go there again.

We attempted for about an hour to take different roads that would lead us to the castle, batting our eyelashes and charming various employees along the way, but we never quite made it there. I'm not really one of "those girls" that's really really into Disney anyway so it was all good.

That ends part one of our honeymoon! Stay tuned for part 2- the cruise :)