-We LOVED our sealer and having so many of our friends and families there!
-Steve keeps reminding me how I crushed his hand right before the ceremony. He thought I was having second thoughts or something, but I was really just overwhelmed by how many people were in the room!
-As we were driving to the reception (in full wedding attire) a car passed us. The man driving the car was clapping and cheering and then the lady next to him started doing that as well...it was a funny/awkward moment.
- Steve had given me a lecture every day for about two weeks leading up to the wedding about how mad he was going to be if I got cake on his face. I was so nervous about getting cake on his face when the time came, I basically shoved it halfway down his throat and choked him!
-Everybody was right, despite how much Steve insisted he would, we did not eat at the reception. Instead, we stopped at Wendy's on our way up to Salt Lake.
We are SO grateful for everyone coming to Utah and helping us with all things wedding. The day flew by, but all the hard work and love was definitely noticed making it such a special day for us!
And then we flew to Cancun!!! I should have known things would not go smoothly while traveling - I'm married to Steve after all. ;) We got to the airport and saw our flight was delayed for two hours, but that was still enough time to make our connecting flight in Houston. Every time we checked the departure time our flight got bumped back a little more until we were going to be cutting it really close. During this waiting time we ran into the Warrens leaving as well as Randy and TJ. Both of their flights ended up leaving before ours since our flight was so delayed. Finally we boarded. Then they came on the speaker and said the emergency exit doors didn't have the right pressure, they should take 5-10 minutes to check. 15 minutes later they came on and told us it would be another 2-3 hours until we took off while they fixed the doors...we would definitely miss our connection. So we got off the plane and tried to figure things out. Making a very long story a little shorter, we got to Houston, they told us our plane hadn't left yet, we ran through the airport, found out our plane had taken off about 20 minutes before we got there, so we stood in line at customer service for about an hour.
We got our meal comped in the airport and then directions to get to a hotel for the night. We couldn't get our checked luggage though. We were determined to use every last penny of our meal money, so we bought SO much food! We had $0.60 left and the girl at the register gave us a $0.70 cookie for it! We were pretty intense.
The shuttle from our hotel to the airport in the morning didn't have enough seats, so I ended up on Steve's lap for about 20 minutes so we didn't have to wait for the next shuttle and risk missing our flight. Now here's the awesome part: the lady at customer service upgraded our seats on the flight to Cancun to first class!!! Steve had asked her if she could since this was a horrific start to our honeymoon and she said if Steve showed her a picture from the wedding, she'd upgrade us. Thank heavens for smart phones! It was amazing! We got hot towels, and warm scones, and drinks in glass cups, and free TV! The only thing I regret is not using the bathroom. I know it would have been the normal gross airplane bathroom, but the fact that they announce at the beginning that it's only for first class passengers makes it feel so exclusive! So despite downing around seven glasses of juice, the flight was only about an hour and the first class bathroom remains a mystery.
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| First Class Tickets!!! |
It was a little confusing finding the shuttle to our hotel, but we made it! We stayed at the Sun Palace. Our room got a little messed up since we were supposed to check in the previous day. We got stuck with an annex room to one that some strangers were staying in...it was weird. BUT it was still very nice with a balcony with a hot tub and everything (Steve was upset since the hot tub was originally supposed to be in the room instead of on the balcony). However, we loved it!!! The views from our room:
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| The gorgeous sunset from our balcony! |
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| Our balcony is the top small one on the right. |
The workers would leave towel animals when they cleaned our room if we tipped:
There was a somewhat traumatic experience of finding a cockroach in our room one evening when we walked in, but it was quickly trapped under a cup and then taken by the cleaning crew (although the cockroach was big enough it probably just walked away with the cup...). We were way too flustered to remember to get a picture! ;)
Every time we would eat or practically talk to any of the workers, they would hand me a flower! I saved as many as I could!
We had been so excited with wedding festivities and so busy, we really hadn't had too much time to pack. It turns out we forgot A LOT of pretty essential items such as sunscreen and my sunglasses. When we went to buy some at the hotel, the sunglasses were around $50 and a bottle of sunscreen was $35 (normal size, like what you'd buy at Walmart for $8)!! $35?! We said no thank you and headed across the street to this dinky convenience store. It had way more normal priced items and we came away happy with both sunglasses and sunscreen! As a bonus the gas station also had Kinder Eggs for a treat!
Despite the sunscreen, we still got burned. One evening after being on the beach all day we decided to get in the hot tub. We were trying to take a picture and so Steve set up the timer on the camera and went to jump in. The hot water didn't feel so great on his sunburn and he jumped right back out, making one of my favorite pics from the trip! We eventually got a better shot.
One day the hotel brought a mini cake up to our room! We discovered it was the best chocolate cake ever and ordered a slice of it pretty much every night...
The hotel had a beach, three pools, and six restaurants, so we basically didn't leave for the entire week! We tried to go to different restaurants each night, but Steve quickly fell in love with one called "The Steak" and it was all over! :)
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| We weren't drinking, I swear... |
The beach was absolutely incredible! Such clear, blue water. Our favorite activity was to just walk along the beach and spot all the fish we could see in the clear water! It was just beautiful!
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| Our hotel |
We would go down to the beach every day. Once we decided it had been a while and we needed a break from the sun, we'd head back to our room to discover that we'd only been gone for about 45 minutes! This happened several times. We decided some beach toys were seriously needed to keep our attention span on the beach a bit longer!
Our last night at the hotel there was a cool fire show on the beach:
We were sad to head home, but there was one more nice surprise from the airline customer service lady: she had upgraded us to economy plus on our flights back. Hello extra 5"!
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| These signs were in the Cancun airport. No idea what they meant! |
