The Honeymoon

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

This is a topic that I completely forgot about while I've been blogging. The reason is because it was planned and done SO long ago (Last summer, before we had even nailed down our venue). One of the first things Mr. S wanted to plan was our honeymoon. He's really into vacations, we always seem to have one or two planned at any given time. We kicked around a lot of ideas, mostly ones that included a beach with tropical drinks. Because of the time of our wedding, it's also hurricane season, so at first we tried to come up with ideas for places outside the hurricane zone. We also didn't want to be on a plane for more than 6 hours, so this really limited our "out of the box" places (Fiji?, Australia? Europe? - ugh, wish you could tellaport to these places)
We thought about Maine because he's always wanted to go there, but it didn't really give us the required beach and tropical drink quota.
We thought about an Alaskan cruise, but we couldn't find one that was adults only which turned into another one of our requirements for a great honeymoon spot (seriously, we have five kids at home, if we wanted kids around we'd bring our own).
We thought about Hawaii and did some research there, but we couldn't come up with any good all-inclusive, all-adults locations. Plus the flight would be longer than 6 hours. Maybe someone knows of some ideas, but we couldn't find any.
So then we started looking at the Caribbean again. We thought that even though we're taking a gamble, it could pay off. We had first decided on Sandals St. Lucia. It was GORGEOUS! It sounded so nice and relaxing. After talking to the travel agent though, she pointed us to Mexico. The Adventura Spa Palace is on the southern end of the hurricane zone and is almost just as beautiful as St. Lucia. It was also considerably cheaper and a shorter flight. Here's a link to their site: http://www.palaceresorts.com/Resorts/AventuraSpaPalace/Index.asp
So, although it's not completely exotic or a far off place, this seems to fit Mr. S and I just perfect. We'll be able to chill out and relax and be ourselves.
Where will you be going on your honeymoon? What were your requirements for the perfect trip?

1 comments:

Bobby Earle said...

Beautiful! You're going to love it :)

Bobby

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