Honeymooning

After the reception (pictures to come soon) we high tailed it out of there and drove up to Detroit.  We spent the night at the Detroit airport in the hotel there (which was actually SUPER nice).  Our bathroom was so big it took me a while to find the toilet.  Not even joking.  I left the actual bathroom and was even looking in the closets for it!

Our flight left early the next morning for St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.  It was grand!

After leaving the airport on the island we were immediately thrown a curveball.  They DRIVE ON THE LEFT.  What the what?!?!  No one told us anything...I just happened to see a little itty bitty "remember to drive on the left" on the map we were given.  It was tucked away in a corner and I'm not sure how we were supposed to know to do it!  The cars look like regular cars (steering wheel on the left) so we never would have known!  Thankfully, my husband was an excellent left-hand driver...even if it did take him a bit to figure it out.

Below are a few pictures of the resort we stayed at...A Ritz Carlton!  Let me just put in a good word about the Ritz.  They had THE BEST customer service I have ever experienced.  The people working there were just genuinely friendly people and I just couldn't get enough of it!  After working in customer service for three years I can definitely appreciate when a place does it right.

Ummmmm have you ever seen a gym with screens on EACH machine that are THIS big??  Yeah, we hadn't either.

This looks like I made it B&W but it's just what happened when I took the picture!

Here's a few pictures of our room.  I forgot about taking pictures until we were literally walking out of our room to check out so it's kind of messy....

Most of our week revolved around food.  We have more pictures of what we ate than of ourselves...whoops.  Our days consisted of sleeping in until 10 or 11 (maybe 2 or 3...), going to the beach or pool for a few hours, coming home and showering and getting ready for dinner, going out to eat and then coming home and watching movies until we fell asleep (which was like midnight or earlier...I'm still not sure how we even slept so much!)

Breakfast in bed...yum!

My blackened grouper which was REALLY blackened...

Our huge "appetizer"

The best crab cakes in the entire world.

Some sort of mixed seafood dish and a glass of our favorite "Rum Punch" (minus the rum...duh)

The above picture is me with a ceaser salad I got.  It's probably the sweetest looking salad I've seen in my entire life.  It's like Gordon Ramsay cool looking!  You'll also notice the "champagne" in my hand.  Our hostess brought us champagne because it was my birthday dinner and when we told her we didn't drink she brought us back sparkling cider.  See?  Excellent customer service.  Not to mention that she remembered us from our visit to the restaurant a few days previous to this!

One day we decided to venture off of our Island and take a boat ferry to the neighboring island, St. John.  St. John is actually 2/3 national park so there are a lot less people and resorts and a lot more beautiful, open beaches.  Sadly, my phone died 10 minutes after we got to the island so we only have a few pictures of the day and none of them are of us in our snorkel gear :(

This is a beach similar to what we snorkeled at but my phone died before I got a picture of that one.

WHEW!  What a trip.  It was fantastic.  But it's not over yet :)

After a week in the Virgin Islands, we flew to Orlando where we met up with Nate's family and had ANOTHER week of vacation.  This time, a family vacation.  We stayed at the Marriott which had probably the most incredible pool I've ever seen.  Besides what you can see in the picture below, it also had three full-sized, awesome water slides we raced down many, many times.

Apparently Orlando has the best sushi place in the world so we had to go there for some sushi.  I have been warned though that since my first was the best, other sushi won't ever taste as good.

My very first bite

Complements to my new sisters on my outfit!

We went to Downtown Disney for a few hours one night and just walked around and looked in shops.  Nathaniel made us a cute potato baby but we left it at the store...

I got to crack open my own oyster to get a pearl and found a gray-blue one.  The lady at the stand told me there's a 1 in 50 chance of getting that color so lucky me!

After a few days in FL, we drove up to NC to see his sister's family.  On the way we stopped at Ft. Pulaski, a Civil War fort to learn some of America's history.  Here's us having a little fun at the gift shop...

I fail at taking more pictures in NC or pictures of other people....so it seems like that will be all for now!