The long time coming but totally worth the wait UPDATE

Alright, so I realize people haven't been checking their blogs on an hourly basis waiting for this but a girl can dream right? These days I have plenty of time to dream, mostly of the day-dreaming sort but that's another blog post in it's own so...
I wanted to start at the beginning with the wedding but our photos are in transit so we must wait. So on to the next best thing...

THE HONEYMOON!!!!
Our Honeymoon was awesome, we started it off right and spent our first night as Mr. and Mrs. @ the Grand Hotel in SLC. Amazing! I could live there. It was beautiful and the view was just as good. We had a very early morning wake up call, Red Bull for breakfast and headed to the airport for our 0715 flight to? I honestly don't remember what airport. We arrived in Cancun around 330 Sunday afternoon and upon arriving at our hotel we were given drinks and whisked away to our room via an extra large golf cart, it was awesome! The view from our room was amazing! On one side we had white sand and the most beautiful and clear blue ocean and on the other we had the coast and nightlife and water.







We spent 2 entire days next to the pool and enjoyed the 24/7 wait service, something we both agreed we could get use to. We explored the mall that was about a 15 minute walk from the hotel and the flea market that was 10 mins in the other direction. On tuesday we gave in to both our secret dreams of swimming with the dolphins and spent an hour in the water with Echo and Satu. It was so fun, I was a little nervous getting into the water for some reason but the dolphins were so good and calm and knew exactly what to do. We got to hug and kiss them (Echo tried to put the moves on me and Jeff got a little jealous) rub their bellies, make them dance and sing, shake hands and the best part swim with them. I was also a little (a lot) nervous for this particular part. You have to swim out in the middle of the pool by yourself and then the trainer sends the dolphins swimming your way, they are so fast you have to be prepared to grab on and they pull you in the water. It was so fun, Jeff did a little bit different swim where the dolphins pushed their noses into his feet and he was propelled out of the water like superman it was so cool and his face was priceless. So worth it. We wish we would have gotten pictures but of course we couldn't take our new underwater camera in, they took pictures throughout the swim and then tried to charge us $29 for one 8x10 photo. Umm... nice try.
We went to a water park as well (attached to the dolphin aquarium) and that all made for a very fun and exhausting day. On Wednesday we got up and were on a bus by 0730 only to panic that we had left our safe door open in our hotel room so while we were picking up more people at one of the hotels Jeff ran inside to call our hotel, they were great and sent a manager and security guard to our room to close the safe. In the meantime our bus started pulling away and I had to run up to the front and tell them to stop that my husband was inside! I'm sure it was a sight. Anyway, we went to the Cenote, a natural water well and once again panic struck. We realized we and by we I mean ME forgot to grab the battery of the camera off the charger. NO CAMERA DAY #2. Bloody. We spent what I thought was a little bit of pesos ($17usd) on a disposable wind up camera (Yes they still make them! I was just as shocked as you must be right now.) Imagine the shock of the people we asked to take our picture. "Oh what?" "You have to wind it." "Where do I look?" "In the small whole." click. wind. wind. wind. wind. wind. Click. wind. wind. wind. wind. Followed by lots of laughter and more quiet expressions of, "wow, I didn't know they even made those anymore!" Like I said before it was a sight. The Cenote was beautiful and when we develop (ughkk choke) the pictures well let's be honest I don't even know what happened to that $17 camera so you will never see the Cenote. Too bad, go to Mexico if you want I guess. We had lunch at this rather shady and interesting "restaurant" in some little town after leaving the Cenote and headed for Chichen Itza. So cool! If you didn't know it became one of the new 7 wonders of the world in 2005 and there's no wonder why. It is so advanced in mathematics, astrology and their calendar system is more accurate than the one we use today. About 20 minutes after we got there it started to sprinkle and then rain and then the clouds opened up and it poured for the entire 4 hours that we were there. But we had a good time and met some really nice friends from... salt lake city of all places who just happened to work at IMC and just graduated nursing school with 2 of mine and Jeff's coworkers from IMC. You go all the way to mexico and the people you meet are mormons from SLC, UT. It was very fun to talk to them and they were kind enough to take some pictures for us and email them to us.
We were serenaded at dinner that night by a mariachi band and loved it so much Jeff paid them to play for us again. They were so good!
We got lots of sun, ate lots of delicious food, spent lots of money, and most of all just enjoyed the time and everything we did together. Honeymoons are great.


Jeff showing me how to calculate things on his new calculator watch @ the Grand


Pool time!


this little monster wouldn't leave me alone! I couldn't relax knowing he was only a few feet away.. gross.


the views were incredible from every direction




Jeff decided to give us new names for the week. Meet Esteban and I his wife Isabel.


laying in the hammock after dinner


loving our underwater camera!


our awesome cabana bed by the pool


Chichen Itza


we're a little damp can ya tell?




at the flea market


going home

I realize I got a little picture happy with this post but there are so many good ones so I will make a slideshow one of these days..