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Well, since I am finally back on track here and have my pictures uploaded I thought I would start with an update or two!
I am elated about the photos! I really felt genuinely lucky! I know most of you know this already but I teach 9th grade World History and since we are covering the world from the dawn of time through the Renaissance, religion is a key aspect of many civilizations that we cover. Anyways, I often feel like a "victim" of karma-- in a good way! I have to deal with such junk sometimes and I am rarely negative. When I get a string of good luck sometimes I cant help but feel like its just coming back to me from when I dished it out- karma style!
In any case, I uploaded all of the pics I want to use for the honeymoon so I am going to get into the honeymoon for now. Once I post this though, I am going to see if I can steal the image urls from facebook or our photogs website and do a picture only wedding update or two first! You guys might end up with triple updates tonight!!! (Quadruple if you count this!)
In any case, I will try and be nice and descriptive so that those of you who saw all the pics on facebook already are equally entertained! TTFN! Updates on the way!
Man, have I had the worst luck with fonts this TR! Silly, I know but i just wanted green/century gothic/bold for the wedding part of this and when I just went back through it is in comic sans, black, trebuchet! jeez! Im going back to my usually blue trebuchet for the honeymoon so this annoyance will hopefully be over.
And anyways, without further adieu--
WEDDING PICS PART 1: GETTING READY/BEFORE THE CEREMONY
So there you have it! Part one of the wedding pics. I would have shared more but since I am using the urls from facebook they are a little on the big side!!
Well, we did not leave for our honeymoon directly after the wedding. Instead, we saved mucho dinero by flying out on Sunday. I dont have my itinerary in front of me but I know we made it to Sandals by 1:00pm!
We were up bright and early toting Liam over to my parents and then getting driven to the airport by my dad (we flew Jet Blue out of JFK). Believe it or not it was a 2 hour and 15 minutes flight-- about 30 minutes shorter than flying to Orlando!!
The flight was uneventful and once we got into Nassau International airport it was easy checking in with customs and getting our first passport stamps!! We were quickly heading to the Sandals booth to get our shuttle. Our shuttle was through a company called Majestic tours (which was ironic to me since our photographer was from a company called Majestic studios). The driver was hilarious!! He pointed out some cool landmarks like Bob Marley's widows home and told funny stories.
We arrive at the resort to an adorable Caribbean woman who had wet warm towels for us to wipe our hands and faces with! Then she lead us and the two other couples with us into the main lobby. Man, is it beautiful in the Bahamas!
We sat with one of the couples who we drove in with-- they were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and we saw them a few times on the trip. And their last name was Friend! so cute!
In any case, we got checked in and were told we had to wait for our rooms to be ready so we could go explore the resort and grab some lunch-- which is just what we did! Our lunch stop was at Spices Restaurant, which became our breakfast destination for most of the trip! And we made another little friend whom I shared my fritter with!
After lunch we headed to check out our room which was beautiful!! It even had a nice little deck that we never used! lol! It was very convienently located to a side door to the main building that lead you directly out onto the beach!
After we checked everything out we headed straight for the BEACH!!! On the way we checked out the resort!
Once we were done beaching it up and had gotten sufficiently hungry we headed back to the room to freshen up for dinner. Dunno why I dont have pics of us on the beach but who knows. We decided to have dinner at a restaurant called Kimonos which was Caribbean hibachi! And what a great choice it was!!
One of the Sandals photopass guys took some pics of us outside the restaurant!
Our chefs name was Theo and he was GREAT! He sang a lot while he worked and had a great voice! This was our favorite restaurant of the trip thanks to him! Rob even caught a piece of egg in his mouth that Theo flipped off the grill at him!
After what was a fabulous first day honeymooning we headed out towards the beach to watch the sunset. I was still over exhausted from the wedding and Rob was feeling travel day tired so we found a great little spot on a comfy outdoor couch.
The sun slowly went down and the little moon snuck out. Just as it started to get dark fire pits and tiki torches were lit around the resort. We sat and relaxed, not quite ready to end our first day in paradise and listened to the nights entertainment "One Man and His Sax". It was perfect!!!
Love the wedding pics. And what a beautiful first day in paradise. That resort is gorgeous. I can just picture the comfy couch and watching the sun go down. What an amazing way to end the day and begin the rest of your honeymoon. We went to a Sandals in Negril once and ate at a hibachi place as well. I caught a shrimp. Craig missed...I NEVER miss food!! Looking forward to more.
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I love the Bride hoodie!! too cute! the wedding pics are really wonderful and I am loving that Sandals resort! It looked really beautiful and i love the pics of everything! Looks like you guys had a really good first day there. I cant wait to hear more of it!
great update
what a great room - so pretty
don't you hate that travel day tired?
great pics of the wedding - you in tha black and white at the door - beautiful
hurry back with more please
Love the wedding pics. And what a beautiful first day in paradise. That resort is gorgeous. I can just picture the comfy couch and watching the sun go down. What an amazing way to end the day and begin the rest of your honeymoon. We went to a Sandals in Negril once and ate at a hibachi place as well. I caught a shrimp. Craig missed...I NEVER miss food!! Looking forward to more.
LOL!!! Thats what Rob said when they tossed him the food "Dont worry I never miss food!" haha!!! The resort really was gorgeous and chock full of things to do! I thought we would end up bored since we are so used to Disney!
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Awsome Pictures !!!! The resort looks beautiful I cannot wait for more!
Thanks! I may updated later if I have time. Its a very BLAH rainy Saturday and we were planning on going hiking so our day is going to be open and bored.
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More beautiful wedding pics and what a stunning resort.
Thanks! I wish I had the time and patience to post more wedding pics but at least most of you got to see them on FB!
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I love the Bride hoodie!! too cute! the wedding pics are really wonderful and I am loving that Sandals resort! It looked really beautiful and i love the pics of everything! Looks like you guys had a really good first day there. I cant wait to hear more of it!
The bride hoodie is from Victorias Secret actually! And OMG I got the best deals on new Fall clothes there this week! They had free shipping if you bought a sweater, different amounts of money off depending on what you spent, and 30% off your highest price sale item and you could use all the codes!!! I ended up spending like $350 and for $650 worth of clothes, accesories, shoes... etc! It was so awesome!
Sandals was great! I remember thinking about how "right" you were about the water in the Bahamas! Ah! I wish I was back there now! lol!
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Oh Melissa, I love the photos!! My favorite actually was of you with your rollers!!
Okay, I'm thinking I need to look into this Sandals thing for our 20th anniversary--that's just 5.5 years away!
LOL! I like how I am texting Rob in rollers too! very classy!
You would love Sandals for an anniversary! "Love is all you need"
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great update
what a great room - so pretty
don't you hate that travel day tired?
great pics of the wedding - you in tha black and white at the door - beautiful
hurry back with more please
I have so much adrenaline when we vacation that I never get travel day tired but Rob always does! It was just as well this day though becuase I was so tired from the wedding it took me a couple days to catch up!
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Beautiful, Stunning! I was struck by the B&W of you in the door as well, but they are all lovely! The resort looks wonderful!
My parents love that pic of me and so does Rob... tho I always feel like because my eyes are so dark sometimes I look evil in black and whites or high contrasty shots! lol!
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