Honeymoonin

For our honeymoon, we had the wonderful opportunity to go on a cruise from Long Beach California to Catalina Island and Ensenada Mexico.  I have been on a couple of cruises before but this was Jared's first cruising experience and it was a success! We both absolutely loved it :) On Monday morning we flew out of Salt Lake City into Long Beach California on a small plane that you had to board from the stairs outside of the plane.  I have flown a lot since I was 4 years old but this was the first time I got to board from the outside.  I know most people would prefer to board a plane through the boarding bridge but I just love trying new things so this was very fun for me! **quick side-note.  My dad is an electrical engineer for JBT and his whole objective every day is to make the boarding bridges connect to the airplane, so it's kind of ironic that I got so excited over not having to use something involving my dads job haha. My dad is just too good at his job and has made it so I never needed to experience less than the best.** Anyways...our flight landed around 10 am but we couldn't board the cruise ship until 2 pm so we took our taxi over to the boarding dock and just relaxed until it was time to board.  On our drive over, our driver was extremely friendly.  We got talking with him and he got extremely sidetracked and almost drove us to Disneyland instead (I wasn't complaining ;)).  I am so oblivious with directions but Jared caught on right away and decided to put our destination in his gps before saying anything to our driver but once he figured out for sure we were going in the wrong directions, he ended up saying something to the driver who apologized and turned around.  He told us he had taken the people previous to us to Disneyland and just got in auto-mode to go to the same place.  It was funny and added to our trip.  Good thing Jared is so good at directions because I probably wouldn't have noticed until we were actually at Disneyland.

As we were standing in line to board the cruise, I received an email from Utah State letting me know that I needed to pay my tuition by Wednesday. Through all of the wedding planning and partying, I had totally forgot.  It wasn't too big of a deal because I could pay online or over the phone, but I was a little short on the amount I had in my account.  I had talked to Jared before we got married and he had agreed to help me out since I wasn't going to be paid until September for one of my jobs.  So Jared and I began scurrying to figure out how we were going to get money transferred from his account to my account before our ship set sail.  After trying to figure this out for 15-30 minutes, all of a sudden Jared was like "wait, why don't we just pay the whole thing from my account?" At first I felt bad like I was borrowing so much money from Jared so I told him I would pay him back as soon as we got back...then all of a sudden it clicked.  We're married now...this isn't my money or Jared's money...this was OUR money... haha we both kind of laughed because we hadn't realized this quite yet.  Neither one of us had a problem with it, it was just new.  So we called Utah State and used Jared's card to pay my tuition and all was well and we could get on with our cruisin! 

^Our perfect room^

^the fun slides on our ship^

^us as we board the ship^

^Our stop at Catalina Island.  It was such a beautiful little island.  We decided to go parasailing-which was crazy because I'm terrified of heights! But it was so much fun! We were 250 feet up in the air, holding hands above the bright blue ocean.  It was fabulous! Our smiles say it all.  We also enjoyed an afternoon swimming in the ocean and walking around the beautiful island.  

^Our second stop was in Ensenada Mexico.  We kayaked to La Bufadora blow hole.  We had the absolute best view and had a wonderful experience.  We were exhausted by the time we were done but we managed to stop for some street tamales, candy, a street tostada, and some shopping.

^Our 1500th ice cream cone of the trip.  We absolutely love the unlimited food options :)

 

^Can you spot me??^

^Oh there I am :) Jared had a difficult time finding me^

^Mini golfing on the ship^

^Ice cream cone building contest...Jared didn't know what he's up against and was slightly embarrassed of my skills.^ 

^After our fabulous cruise, we rented a car and drove up the coast to our great friends wedding at the Oakland California temple.  It was a beautiful drive and great time with Jared as always ^