is it all over???

Well, Jon and I just spent 2 weeks away from cold, rainy, snowy PA. It was fantastic.

My space bar is still a bit broken, but I am too lazy to fix things if I miss a space, so you will have to put up with it.

Anyway, as I said, our honeymoon was absolutely wonderful.

We left on Friday, the 14th, and took a late flight to Ft.Lauderdale, Florida. We slept late and goton theboat around 1:00. It was actually ridiculously simple. Peoplemade it sound like it would take hours, but Princess has it down toa science. As soon as we walked on, there was like a billion people telling us exactly how to get to our room.

Theroomwas, well, small. We had a decent sized balcony though, and I would highly recommended it. Our big bed was really two twins pushed together, which suited us just fine. We went out to the buffet and got our first meal on the boat, which was pretty good.

We set sail around 5, so basically we just wandered all overthe ship and ate when we could.

I guess detailing what we did every day would be rather boring, but hereare the highlights:

Sunday: Princess Cays - Beautiful beaches, sort of sunny, beautiful water
Monday: At sea - we watched movies, generally hung out
Tuesday: Jamaica - "liquid sunshine, mon"... in the form of BUCKETS of water. Swam with the dolphins, AMAZING, got offered several "good smokes". Rough seas for the next few nights, but we liked the rocking :)
Wednesday: Grand Caymen - stunningly beautiful, we want to go back, too choppy so oursnorkling got canceled. Sigh. We will go again some day. Coral reef everywhere!
Thursday: Cozumel - the ruins, pretty cool, lizards all over theplace! Seemed like a fun place butI am scared of mexican food
Friday: At sea
Sat: off the boat


A lot of people asked us what we did... but honestly, it was a lot of relaxing. When you are on a cruise, there is little to do but eat, sleep, read, and gamble... and it is WONDERFUL. Jon and I got between 9 and 10 hours of sleep every night and woke up to beautiful sunshine and amazing waters. The temp was between 75 and 82 every day with a breeze. Though Jon and I have gone on vacations, we have not really ever gone somewhere that we left EVERYTHING behind. The first time we ever went away like that was two spring breaks ago when we went to FtMyers to the condo by ourselves. That was relaxing, but we knew we had to comeback. HERE, we had a whole other week to spend in Florida with my grandparents so the trip on the boat was really chill. I think it is the most relaxed I have felt in a very very very long time.

The week in Florida was good too. We went to the dog tracks, went sea kayaking, walked the beach, went to Lovers Key to shell... we read a lot and hung out with Nan and Bud, which was great.

When we came home, it was off to the races again as we celebrated Thanksgiving with our collective families on Friday, Sat, and Sunday!




It has been a week since we have returned and there is still a lot going on, but I still feel pretty chill. We got our Christmas tree - it is freakin huge - and we just put the lights on tonight. Our apartment is kind of a disaster zone right now, but hopefully we will have time over the next few days to rectify that.

Tonight I finished my grad course. As soon as I get my grade, I just have to get my transcript, then I am set to graduate two mondays from now. Hurrah!

Also, I am pleased to say that Les asked me to be her "matron" of honor for her marriage to Ben! I am totally flattered and excited and all of the girls in the wedding are totally full steam ahead with the planning, which is fantastic. It is going to be wonderful and I am so completely honored to be part of it! YAY!


I am trying to post pictures up to photobucket forthe honeymoon, so you can check the link if you would like.