The Honeymoon

The coolest part of our honeymoon for Jennifer was when we went to Harry Potter castle in Orlando. Jennifer really, really likes Harry Potter. She also really, really dislikes it when I call Hogwarts "Harry Potter Castle". I was a little skeptical initially, mostly because the line to just get into the Harry Potter section of the park had a sign by it saying "The Wait from this Point Is: 120 mins". It didn't take two hours, however, and the time we did spend waiting was well worth it because Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is a sweat ride. It was both my and Jennifer's favorite ride at the park.

I was more excited to see the Jurassic Park rides and attractions, though given the recent entries to the franchise I probably should have kept my expectations low. Remember

 And most recently

It wasn't too bad. They only had one real ride and it featured raptors and a T-rex so it was worth going to. Also, you could walk right onto the ride and not wait at all in line. I guess enthusiasm for a ride based on a movie almost 20 years ago (holy cow, I know) has waned a little over the past two decades. 

This was on the ride. The T-rex attacks the boat right before you go down a waterfall. We couldn't get a good shot in though because, you know, lap bars. 

Orlando was one stop on our seven day cruise to the Caribbean. We had two others. The first was at Nassau. Nassau is kind of sketchy. The boat docks at this touristy trap place. We went to the beach near where they let us off intending to lay out and go swimming but when we got there the beach was covered in broken glass and homeless people so we only stayed for an hour or so. 

Daniella from Jennifer's work told us we should go to Paradise Island while we were at Nassau because that's where all the good beaches were. After a streaker guy chased us off the first beach we decided to try our luck on the other side of the island. We took a ferry to Paradise Island aka Atlantis Beach Resort We Own All the Beaches Here So Don't Think You Can Come Over Here Without a Reservation Island. We were stumped at first, but we met this Canadian couple who helped us sneak past security onto the forbidden Atlantis beach.

The beach there was way pretty. If you're ever in Nassau, don't bother going anywhere but to the beaches on Paradise Island. Oh, and when it was time to leave our boat (pictured above) totally ran into an old pier support (also pictured above- the brown thing between the white and green pole). The impact knocked a kid out of his stroller and he hit his head on the ground. Man, were his parents upset. 

We planned our wedding so it would happen the week before Thanksgiving. That way, we could take the whole following week off and not miss too much work. We thought that was pretty clever of us, and it was. The only drawback was Thanksgiving dinner. It made Jennifer cry, and not in the good way like when she sees an especially beautiful sunrise or has vanilla icing and frozen milk for breakfast. Yeah, she eats that. I'm learning all sorts of things I didn't know about Jennifer, like how she says "buggy" instead of "shopping cart" and how she leaves cups of water in the bedroom. She's also learning things about me, like how I leave cupboard doors open, all of them all the time, and how I obsessively pick up cups of water left lying around in the bedroom. 

Our last stop was Freeport. It was a lot like Nassau. Here are some more pictures.

I was in bad need of a haircut pretty much the entire time.

And that was our honeymoon. We both liked it. We intended to finish all our thank you cards during the down time, but ended up not doing any of them. We've still only finished five. To everyone who gave us anything, you have our thanks and we promise we will be sending out those cards soon. Promise.