Honeymoon – Sailing Across the Ocean in Style

(honeymoon story continued…) Had it really only been 12 hours earlier that we boarded the ship?  It seemed like time was going so slowly yet fast too.  After an uneventful evening, we woke rested and ready for our first official day on the Queen Mary II.  The day before had been such a whirlwind of taking in the sights and [...]

Honeymoon – The Queen Mary II

In my last honeymoon post, I told you about the first day that we spent aboard the Queen Mary II.  But I don’t feel like my descriptions accurately portrayed just how incredible it was, so I want to try to show you what the ship looked like.  Let me first say that pictures simply do [...]

Honeymoon – Day Four

(Honeymoon story continued…) It was Wednesday morning of our honeymoon adventure and we only had a few hours until we resumed our journey.  So I spent my morning doing what every other red-blooded American girl in New York would do – I went shopping.  I was looking for something specific (for the life of me I [...]

Honeymoon – Day Three

It was our last day in New York and we still didn’t have the energy to do anything other than sleep.  All of that planning for months prior to the wedding must have taken its toll because we were wiped out.   So instead of touring around the city, we lounged in the hotel room before making our [...]

Honeymoon – Day Two

By the time we arrived in New York, it was getting late.  We left the train station in a cab and headed to our hotel, The Kimberly.  While the hotel wasn’t far from the station, the ride over was one of the longest of my life and it wasn’t even due to the New York [...]

Honeymoon – Day One

The day after the wedding I woke to beautiful weather and to my even more beautiful husband.  You know how you go to sleep thinking about something and wake up forgetting what it was?  And then suddenly it hits you and you remember?  That is exactly what happened that first morning as we slowly stirred from a restful [...]

Married Life – Day One (Pt. 11 – The First Night)

Friends had told me that our wedding day would leave us feeling exhausted by the end.  I think that thought was in the back of my mind the entire time we were planning the day.  It is the reason that the ceremony, lunch and reception were scheduled to last only four hours and that the picture-taking was scheduled for [...]