Honeymoon Cont...

Day 5

We decided that we didn't want to do too incredibly much. We were both sunburned from Xel-Ha (which is crazy because we were putting on sunblock continuously throughout the day) so we decided to do one of our favorite things again and have some downtime at the pool. When we got there we were both starving and decided to order up some pizza. Pizza poolside, relaxing in the sun, what could be better. We had a blast.

Just being lazy before we went to the pool


Hanging out by the pool, it was sooo hot that day






A little side note- while we were at the pool that day I randomly asked one of the waiters about Philip's leg. He was the one who informed us that it was a Black Poison Wood Tree. He then gave us this home remedy of smashing up some kind of leaves and rubbing them on his blisters. It seemed to help out a little bit. But we literally had 6 different waiters looking at Philip's leg it was pretty funny...

Day 6

Our last day in Cancun. We pretty much did the same thing as the day before, but we didn't get too many pictures. At night Philip and I went out for a nice dinner. We both had lobster. I wish I would've taken more pictures of the food arrangements because everything was super fancy.

Headed to dinner!


Just hanging out at the table










Leaving the restaurant


After dinner we went to the little gift shop/market place. Philip wanted to do something romantic for our last night so he bought some ice cream and we were off to the beach. After a few minutes of sitting there just looking into the ocean I asked him if he felt like he was being bit... He said no, but I held up the camera light to my arm and there were 3 mosquitoes within 2 inches of each other. Plus the ice cream started to melt everywhere so we vetoed the beach and headed back to the room. Here are a couple of the pictures that we did get though.





On our way to the hotel.



Our last morning.

We woke up extra early and said our goodbyes to Cancun. It was a nice trip but we were ready to head to our new home.

Pool by our room in the morning






I'm so thankful that we got to spend a week in Cancun. Although we have many stories to tell that we will look back in 5 years and they'll be funny. We had a great time and it was definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity. We would take all the bumps and bruises all over again if I had to! :)

Honeymoon!

Okay, I know I'm going a little out of order, but the only thing I really have pictures from is our honeymoon. Our wedding pictures the photographer has and our house pictures, well just trust me you don't want to see those yet haha.

My awesome sister Sandy and her husband Chris decided that for a wedding present they were going to get us a room at the Grand America in downtown Salt Lake! Can I just say WHAT AN AWESOME WEDDING PRESENT! We absolutely loved the room. It does have an older feel to it, but it was one of the nicest places I've ever stayed at (not to mention their room service was AMAZING!)




Philip and I were starving and we decided that we were gonna order some room service. We ordered mozzerela sticks and a cheesburger... I have to tell you. This food was the BEST!! (It might of had to do with the fact we were starving, but we loved it) This is a picture after we devoured our food.


The view from our room was awesome too. We could see all of downtown Salt Lake.










Our YUMMY strawberries!


Day 1

Saturday morning after the wedding we headed straight for Cancun! We didn't do much that first night we got there besides relax. We were both exhausted. The next day which was our first full day in Cancun we decided to head over to the main pool on our resort. This pool was awesome! It was right next to the beach and it had 4 or 5 different pools hooked together that made one GIANT pool. Plus they had some really good snacks that we could eat nonstop.

Headed to the pool!


The beach!




The Pool!


My incredibly hot HUSBAND!!!





Just hanging out after swimming (I know my hair goes insane!)







Day 2

So for our second day in Cancun we decided to go on an excursion. So we woke up early and headed out to the Tulum Extreme excursion (after you visit Tulum you go zip lining, swim in a cenote, and rappel). Tulum has one of THE PRETTIEST beaches either of us have ever seen! It was beautiful. For those of you who don't know Tulum is a place full of Mayan Ruins. Although it was really hot that day (in the 90s) it was great to get out and get a little culture fix in. Afterwards we went into the jungle where it starting pouring down on us like crazy. It was really different seeing rain like that, but it turned out to be good because it made the ziplines faster to go on.

Tulum


















There were iguanas everywhere there.





Then we were off into the jungle! Although Philip didn't pay attention I even saw monkeys hanging in the trees. It was awesome!

Here we are in the Cenote





Zip Lining







and our last activity, rappeling!









Day 3

Tuesday was pretty relaxing. We didn't do too incredibly much because as most of you know, Philip hit his leg on a posionous tree that the pain followed with us the rest of the honeymoon. One of the things that we did do though was head into Playa Del Carmen. We went downtown which they call 5th Ave. It's basically a 5 mile or so stretch of stores and restaurants. I tell you what, it definitely was a different culture there, but it was a good experience for us. The beach there was also one of our favorites even though we didn't get to spend much time there.

Waiting for our taxi


The Beach






Pictures of Philip's gross leg haha







Day 4

Wednesday was our last excursion that we had. We went to a place called Xel-Ha. Xel-Ha is kind of like a big water park minus the slides. It is the inlet of the ocean and has a big lazy river you can either snorkel down or tube down. We were there all day so we decided to do both. When we first got to the park we were able to take pictures holding a bunch of different animals. It was pretty neat. Everything there was also all inclusive so we had tons of delicious food that day as well. I was actually even able to get Philip to put his head under water a few times (we have pictures on a disposable camera that I need to develop).

Waiting to go


Cute little hermit crab!
















Since this post is extra long, I'll post the other half of our honeymoon in the next blog. More to come!