the honeymoon...

Jason and I enjoyed our first vacation together, not with or visiting family, on our honeymoon. This in and of itself was a treat! We went to the Montego Bay Sandals Resort in Jamaica. Unfortunately, I would not recommend that resort to anyone...thought while the resort was less than ideal, the trip and the memories were amazing! I'll be focusing much more on those than the resort in these post and in my attitude towards it all.

We left 24 hours after the wedding and took a red-eye flight which got us into Jamaica about 12:45pm on Sunday. This might not have been the brightest idea. After getting there and struggling to get our luggage to change into shorts and trying to find something to eat, it was obviously time for a nap. After the nap came, the breakdown. Probably not the most romantic thing the first afternoon of the honeymoon, but it obviously needed to happen. I think it was a mix of coming down off of all the wedding hoopla and being upset about the resort. Needless to say we got through that, had dinner, and let the honeymoon begin!

Dinner on the first night...

We did two really fun excursions while on the honeymoon. The first one was Tuesday when we went and climbed the famous Dunns River Falls. It was about a 90 minute drive from our resort and we had the BEST driver. He didn't pass, he didn't speed, he didn't swear! He was like no Jamaican driver I've ever seen! During the climb we switched camera's with another couple for the duration so we have a lot of great pictures of our adventure! You can see more honeymoon pictures on our Picasa site (link at top of page)!

The second excursion we did was a Catamaran Boat ride to a protected reef for snorkeling and then to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville for a drink!

All in all it was a wonderful vacation filled with everything from laughter to crying to Annie snorkeling more than twice on a vacation (a feat in and of itself)!!! More to come on some of the other activities we enjoyed - lounging on the beach, reading, and yes - snorkeling!