Honeymoon Part 1: Days 1 & 2, Before the Incident

You know how they say the first year is the hardest? I think Brian and I might have experienced all of that hardship in the first week.

A lot has happened in the months since the last time I wrote. I’m currently on a plane home from my honeymoon in Maui. Our wedding was picture perfect! I couldn’t have asked for a more magical night. And our honeymoon has been quite, um. Er. The adventure. We’ve had a good time this last week, but we are certainly ready to get home. The next entries I make are going to detail all things wedding and honeymoon.

I’m actually going to begin with the honeymoon, partially because it’s still so fresh in my mind, and partially because I think writing about it might be a good way to get over it. You know, like purging it from my system.

Sounds bad, right? So here we go…

We landed in beautiful Maui last Monday, so in love and ready to be on vacation. No more wedding stress, not a care in the world. We arrived and got our rental car (a 2011 Mustang convertible!) all before noon. We were starving though, so the first thing we did was find Cheeseburger in Paradise and ate. This restaurant is located right on the sand, overlooking the water. We had a couple of cocktails, our burgers, took a deep breath of Maui sea air, and R-E-L-A-X-E-D.

Early morning pre-flight!

Next it was onto the Royal Lahiana Resort to check in. I’m not sure what either of us expected, but the hotel exceeded it all. It was beautiful, and when we opened the door to our room, it took our breath away. Our garden view room had huge sliding glass doors looking out to the garden AND ocean. 

Then a man came to our door and dropped off a bottle of champagne, compliments of the hotel. 

We wandered a couple of hotels over and explored. I drew our names in the sand as the sun was setting. Perfect start to the vacation.

Tuesday was our first full day and it began with a complimentary breakfast through Pleasant Holidays. We were also able to learn about all of the great opportunities for adventure on the island, so we purchased our luau, a bike ride down a volcano, parasailing, a snorkeling excursion to another island, and a sunset dinner and cocktail cruise. We also had a couple of our own adventures planned, like exploring the Road to Hana.

 Everything was working out perfectly- we finished the breakfast just in time to make it over to the parasailing area. We went on a tandem ride at 1200 feet and it was fun, romantic, and so nice to just be the two of us. It was quiet up in the air above the islands, other than the loving jokes passed between the two of us. We saw a sea turtle that had to have been about the size of our boat. It was amazing! We took a couple of pictures and Brian video taped the whole ride. I'd show them here but I can't, for reasons I will explain later.

So we hung out on the beach and in various hotel pools before we headed back to our hotel to get ready for our luau.

We had a really fun time at the luau and met a really cute couple named Chris and Amy from Texas. They were a little older than us, but lots of fun to hang out with and chat over dinner with for those couple of hours. We took a really cute picture at sunset... but, yeah, we'll get to that...

To end the night, we went back to our hotel pool and laid in some lounge chairs to relax with each other for a while. Again, it was nice to just be us. No wedding talk, no crazy labrador to chase after. Just good conversation and relaxation.

 The picture above is the last one we took together before the incident...