Mexican Honeymoon: Day 4

Day 4: Wednesday

So, Wednesday we were supposed to go to Tulum and another one of the palace resorts but our alarm didn't go off...again... We ended up getting up and going to the tour bus stop and just missing it. I wasn't too terribly sad just because I was feeling pretty beat and Friday we were supposed to go to Chichen Itza (or "chicken pizza" as some people call it.)

So, we went back to the room and I fell asleep and Chase went down to reschedule our trip to Tulum (because he is sweet) and then he ordered room service for us. :) So, when I woke up we had some yummy breakfast waiting!!

THEN we decided to go on the "shopping tour" which is really just a tour bus that takes you to another palace resort and you walk to a high-end mall (comparable to gateway) and you shop and have free lunch at the palace resort and they pick you back up in like 4 hours. We decided to go to finally find me a swimming suit! It was pretty fun but REALLY HOT! It seems to be really freaking hot unless you are RIGHT near the beach. We DID find me a swimming suit and it was bright orange and Chase got me a cute cover up too.

After they picked us up and took us back to our resort we went swimming and laid out on the beach and then we went to dinner later that evening. :) It was a nice day!

PS
the pictures are really in NO particular order at all. Just all from that day.



Chase felt like a tourist in his Hawaiian shirt that my mom gave him and wearing my big camera around his neck haha!


Chase hates putting on sunscreen. He doesn't like the "greasy" feel it has.


There were iguanas all over! This one we found by the side of the road on our way to the mall!



This is one of the palace resorts, pretty beautiful!



This is our "we WILL find a swim suit today!" face...and we did!




This was the ONLY store in the mall that sold souveniry type stuff! I thought we would be shopping in downtown Cancun...like cheapo shops and stuff. *sigh* no such luck.



This is where we FINALLY found my swim suit!

Mexican Honeymoon: Day 3

Day 3: Tuesday Ello all!! Tuesday we had a tour to Isla Mujeres. I guess it's the island of women? (Not a direct translation.) So we got on the tour bus and they took us to a fun beachy place where we got on a boat that took us to the island. :) It was a party boat. Everything there was party-themed. I am not a big partier so I got tired of it pretty quickly. It was a beautiful day and the ocean was soooooo turquoise-y!! The ride was fun but I kind of wished they had just stopped talking and playing music and just let us relax and enjoy the view.

The Isla Mujeres tour included an activity which was either snorkeling or a guided tour of the island. I wanted to do the guided tour and Chase wanted to do snorkeling. They said we could probably do both but then we wouldn't have time for lunch and we have figured out the hard way that I don't do well with out food so we couldn't do both.

We went snorkeling which was a lot of fun. I was a little scared at first because they just take you out to the middle of the ocean and shove you off the boat!!! haha just kidding! But they did pull up to this rocky area and just kind of let you off and you just went around and kind of followed the group. I just didn't know what to expect and you have this thing covering your eyes and nose. I freaked out a little at first. And I kept getting water in my snorkel tube dealy. Swallowed a lot of salt water. And apparently I kept breathing out my nose and pushing my mask away from my face and THAT'S how I kept getting water in my eyes. Anywho, there was a guide and he would swim around and try to find fish to show you. He said there weren't many fish because the water was so rough! I dont' have any pictures from there but Chase took a whole lot of underwater video! I'll have to post it some day. :)

After snorkeling (which I really did enjoy!) they took us to another palace resort to shower off and eat lunch and rest by the pool. You see, we stayed at the Moon Palace resort and there are a lot of different Palace resorts all over Cancun and we got free stuff from all of them. :) So we went there and ate and sunbathed (in my one piece) and got ready to be picked up for the third part of the tour.

The third part of the tour was shopping!! :) Chase and I didn't have much money with us that day but we had enough to get some souvenirs and a ring for me and some water. It was QUITE hot! I guess if you're not RIGHT directly next to the water the temperature rises 100 degrees!!!!!

Then we took the boat back to our palace resort and went to our candle light dinner! :)

Also, this was the night, I think, when we found out the jacuzzi tub was shooting mold out of the jets...eeewwww! They moved us to a different room!

Mexican Honeymoon: Day 2

Day 2: Monday
Monday morning we had to meet with Best Day Travel. This was the company that shuttled us to and from the airport and we had to meet with them to basically let them know what time we needed a ride back to the airport. We were supposed to meet them at 9:30am so we set the room alarm clock for 8:00am so we could get some breakfast and get ready and stuff but, weird thing, none of the alarms we set EVER went off at the time we set them for! It was so strange! So, anywho, we woke up on our own around 9:29 so we called down and let them know we would be late and they said "Sure, just come whenever." We're not in America anymore...haha! So, when we did go down to meet with them we also scheduled a pirate ship dinner cruise with them! It was for that evening. :) Our first fun paid-for activity in Mexico!

It was A LOT of fun!! we went on this ship and we were introduced to Captain Jack Sparrow (on Captain Hook's ship) and his crew and they did a dance for us and gave us drinks and they just stood around telling jokes for awhile and then they started the games. They grabbed 4 guys from the crowd and they had to do a beer drinking contest. It was a little more complicated than just drinking bee though. They had to run around their stools 3 times and then run across the deck to their cup of beer and get on the floor and drink it with a straw and then run back to their stool. It looked pretty difficult considering the boat was a rockin and they were dizzy from spinning around their stools and beer is disgusting too so...yeah. A man from England won that.

Then he was calling up ladies from the crowd and, surprise surprise, he picked me. I was freaking out because I don't drink and the first thing the capitan did was nick name me Barbie (original) then he said, "welcome to our TEQUILA DRINKING CONTEST!!!" And I was thinking of how I could get out of it immediately!!! These people LIKE their tequila! Then he said "Just kidding. No tequila drinking. WET T-SHIRT CONTEST!!" and I thought I was going to pewk haha! There were three of us girls and he asked each one of us if we drank tequila, luckily there was a girl besdies me who didn't haha! And he asked me if I would rather do a tequila drinking contest or a wet t-shirt contest and I told him I was going to jump off the side of the boat! Haha I'm hilarious.

Anywho, it ended up being a contest where the Capitan asked us to get as many pairs of shoes as possible from the people in the crowd. It was a little scary but I got into it and WON! Woohoo!! At first the capitan said my prize was his little person crew memeber Tatu. haha! But then he gave me that bandana I'm wearing in the pirate picture above and an eye patch!!

Later we got a delicious steak dinner and then we BATTLED another ship!! By we I mean our crew battled their crew! There was sword fighting and all sorts of stuff! And then they had a little dance party! :)

Sidenote: on the way home this cute dad guy walked past us and said, "Honeymooers! If you're thinking about having kids, don't wait. best thing that ever happened to me." awwww!


That is the other ship off in the distance!

Mexican Honeymoon: Day 1

So. We got there Sunday afternoon, around 3:00pm.

We checked in and then they directed us to the concierge (our personal concierge Nidia) who gave us info on tours and such. Then she directed us to the "honeymooners desk" where they gave us info on what we got because we're honeymooning there.

Then we finally got to go to our room and relaxed for a little bit, checked out the mini bar, tasted some wine (ew!), unpacked a little (this is where we discovered that I had forgotten our swim suites) etc. Then we just wondered around the resort for awhile, tried some of the food (they had 3 main restaurants: the sweet and coffe which was pastries and desserts and breakfast stuff and coffee, the brazilian restaurant which was like rodizios but much less of a selection, and the buffet which had EVERYTHING. Chase had steak every night haha!), went and scheduled some tours and later we went to dinner and then to bed!

Mexican Honeymoon

Hello all!!!! (mostly Megan! haha!)

So. I am FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY married!!! :D And even after almost 2 weeks of being married, I still love Chase as much as I did two weeks ago...the day I married him. haha! I'll post more about that when I get my pictures *ahem* (haha Megan, jk jk, take your time)

What I have pictures of right now is the honeymoon!!!! :D So! I have decided, since I have soooooooo many, to organize them by day. And I am going to do a different post for each day. I know this may seem like it's making the whole posting-of-the-honeymoon process more trouble than it needs to be but, for me, it makes much more sense! okay? okay! :)

Read on!

Fiddler on the roof!

Here are the adult students :) There were a couple more that had already left. The cute blonde on the left is the teacher, Jenna.

So, last weekend was really fun because Chases folks came up to Salt Lake for his fiddle recital and we all go to go and hang out. :)

He took lessons for a couple of years in high school I think...and then quit for a couple of years and decided to take them up again from a girl in our church! It sounds like she is a little girl but she is our age. Chase hangs out and goes rock climbing with her husband. :) So. There ya go. Finding something to blog about. :)

NEXT MONTH?!?!

so...I'm getting married next month...wow. I have been unmarried for 22 years and all of that is going to change and I will be married for the REST OF MY LIFE! It's scary but really really exciting! I got a good one. :) (husband that is)

SO. We have 1 month and 16 days...according to all the fancy schmancy wedding planning websites we should have had the invites out about 2 weeks ago....but we're just not all fancy like those websites want us to be! So, to show the world how unfancy we are, we haven't even PRINTED the invites yet so THERE!!

Ok seriously though, I am quite panicked about it. This is what they meant when they said it would just sneak up on us! It has. It has snuck up on me and said "boo." but more like "BOO!" But it's okay. I'm glad we did the save-the-dates and all the people I really do want there know and have committed and are ready to be there. BUT this Wednesday, when I get off early (I think God knew I would need that early day...), I will be going up to the UofU printing services building to talk with them about how to get them printed and what type of paper we want/sizes/quantity etc etc etc. Chase has them MOSTLY designed, we want to change -okay I want change a few things but then we can just send them over and get them printed and have them back to stuff and send!! :D I mean, we're sending out like 300 or so...shouldn't take long to stuff, address, send all of those right? *nervous laugh*

sorry, no pictures this time...just panic :D

THE apartment!!!

Hello! Here are some pictures of the apartment!! :) Keep in mind, it's not fully decorated...and it's also not quite as neat as it can be in these pictures. :)





Here is our lovely TV stand/entertainment center! We fought and fought about which one to get and instead we got this one that neither one of us thought we liked. But we love it. :)

The kitchen...there is very little counter space and cabinet space but so far it's working...of course, we dont' have any cooking things yet lol

The view from the kitchen into the living room. Those windows get SUCH amazing sun light...when it's sunny! And the door to the right goes out onto this cute little patio/balcony thing. it has a small storage unit too. Didn't get a picture of that.

The view of the front door. Our lovely green accent wall. Notice the adorable throw pillows! (thanks ma!)

Here's the best picture I could get of our closet. It's pretty much PACKED! That and under the bed are the only places we really have to store things but it works...until we get all my stuff in there haha!

The picture of our bathroom. Not missing much from this picture...it's pretty small...there's a plain shower curtain and a big cabinet above the toilet...sink, counter...nothing too special.