Honeymoon Adventure Number 2: Miami

Honeymoon Day 5: South Beach


Our time in Miami began very early in the morning after a long overnight flight and landing around 5:30 in the morning. We took a city bus from the airport to South Beach where we planned to hit the beach until it was time to check into our hotel. 

Katie tired with the stuff at 6AM in South Beach

Who knew South Beach was the place to go to find strays. A good spot to live when its warm all year round I suppose! Shortly after a stop to see the cats, the sky grew very very dark..

Around 8AM the rains began, we took refuge in a Starbucks

Paul was not very impressed with the rain! 

Hotel Edgewater

Our Hotel was called Edgewater and it was wonderful, from letting us check in early to get out the rain, to free happy hour and complementary breakfast on the rooftop patio every day, and only steps away from the park and beach! 

Our room was HUGE!! So Spoiled! 

And of course we had to go the beach! The beach was awesome and the water was so warm! 

For dinner we went to a hotel restaurant a block away from our hotel, and loved the relaxed yet treated like royalty atmosphere. 

We couldn't believe the size of the drinks..yet everywhere in South Beach seemed to serve this size! 

Honeymoon Adventure Number 1: A road trip

While we don't have the wedding pictures back yet...we do have some Honeymoon pictures. Here you get the first look at the first photos (pre-alterations even!) from the event!

Day one: Penticton

We stayed at the Ramada and spent our first day as husband and wife with the family, after a pancake breakfast and getting all the post-wedding stuff figured out we went back to the hotel and just hung out. We had an amazing room with a HUGE spa tub and after such a busy weekend it was nice to just have a quiet evening. The highlight of the evening, a SUPER NINTENDO burger (so who cares that it actually is called the super something else burger...Paul read it as supernintendo and its a much better name) delivered via room-service. 

 Supernintendo Burger and my yam fries

Paul seeing who's facebook'd about us yet

Day 2: Penticton - Wenachee WA

Paul's car had been making funny noises, and we knew there were some issues needing to be fixed, and wanted to get it fixed before we went on a trip in it...little did we know it would be an expensive job and a few hours of waiting around Penticton before we could get going!

 By the time we did get going Paul was pretty pooped..so he slept while I drove to the states. At the Border we had forgotten that we still had a fruit basket in the car (we had meant to leave it with relatives but had forgotten about it. So they kindly pulled us over and made us wait around until they went through our fruit basket and took everything out but the apples. 

That afternoon we were getting hungry so we pulled over to find something to eat in the town of Brewster and found a piece of Mexico! I was so excited by the fact that all the signs on the buildings were all in Spanish often with no English attached! We had some really good Mexican food  at a place called Campero's and went for a walk to stretch the legs. 

We found this on our walk!

On the drive

Day 3: Wenachee - Seattle

After leaving Wenachee <which is the Apple Capitol of the world> behind, we made our way to seattle, but to get there had to drive over the mountains. After a very scenic drive we arrived in Seattle...it was time to head to the airport for our overnight flight. 

Hotel in Wenachee

Had to take a picture for our Hedgehog (Skookum)

Superduper sized anyone?

In the mountains

We found SNOW!

A burger for a hungry Paul at Chili's in the Airport

Katie sleeping in the LAX airport. 

Hitched - A few more wedding pictures

Visiting my family back up in Kaleden this week I was able to track down a few more photos of the wedding. Here's the best:

My Lovely Ladies

Flower Girl

My awesome sibs at the lake....just like when we were kids!

Courtney singing 'Grow Old with You'

My nephew hitting the pinata

So glad my Grandma could make it (and meet her new great grandsons too!) 

Just because my nephew is just so darn cute!

Hitched - A wedding story

We did it! May 20th, 2012 I married my best friend!

Here is a short re-cap, I dont have many pictures yet, but I will add more later!

May 20th

Morning

My best friend and I went into town to get my hair done, it was nice to have some time just us and just calm before the rest of the day began, then we met with the girls at the place I was staying (A guest house owned by friends of the family) to get ready together.

Then it was off to take our first round of pictures with the girls and with my family. I loved getting to take pictures at my Parents (which was my Grandparents) house on the lake!

My Flower girl and Nephew were doing a great job of dispaying thier personalities on camera..

Meanwhile Paul and the guys were having a photoshoot of their own.

And the Main Event, the Ceremony! It went perfectly (execpt for some of the music taking too long..but it all worked out!)

Then we went out a took pictures with our photographers (which I will post when recieved) and then up to Linden Gardens for the reception!

The Reception went well it was so much fun to see soo many family and friends all in one place! The food was amazing, the cake my `honorary sister/friend of the family' made was amazing and tasted fantastic, the decor turned out great, and we had pinatas and music for entertainment. Our interactive guest book was a blast to read through after (Maybe I`ll post some pages from that some other time).

Girls in White Dresses...

I have never considered myself to be much of a girly girl (or materialistic), although I have taken to wearing dresses and heels more in the last few years. Wedding planning is bringing out the girly girl in me and I must confess my new addiction...WHITE DRESSES! I have gone from never owning a white dress (since I was a flower girl when I was 4), to owning 6 white or ivory dresses in the last 2 months!! That is NOT including the wedding dress! It is so easy to justify needing white dresses when theres partys and showers and a tropical honeymoon coming up!

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