Late Night Ramblings. (Honeymoon 03.31.09)

If a picture could tell a thousand words, I'd have so many things to say... We haven't really gotten a chance to share our Honeymoon story, or lack thereof. Here's a photo and I'll follow it up with more thoughts.



Random shot from the wedding on 03.21.08 (I will post more at some other time). 2 days after our Wedding, we took off on a cruise for Mexico for 7 days. We had hoped to be able to do all of the things we had dreamed of doing for quite some time. Things like Ziplining over the forest, Jet-Ski, Bridge Jumping, Bungie Jumping, Parasailing, etc...

As you know, Kelly got in a REALLY bad car accident on January 18th of 2008, yes, 1.5 months before our wedding. She was, and still is to THIS DAY, in unbearable pain. To the point that we almost called off the cruise altogether. At the last minute, we decided to go with it and even if we stayed in the room, we'd have fun. Here are a couple of shots of us gallivanting around the ship.




We quickly realized that it wasn't going to be a fun trip for us with Kelly in so much pain, so we decided we would hang out at the pool area since we could at least get in and out of the pool and lounges so that we could get a nice tan, basically just relax for a week without having to constantly wonder what is going on with any of the 4 kids. It became apparent to me that even THAT was going to be too much as Kelly's pain seemed to increase whenever we did anything at all, so I went to Captain of the Ship and asked if he could kindly loan us a wheelchair because we were on our Honeymoon and not able to make it around the ship. He said "anything for the newlyweds" and set us up.



Kelly didn't seem too happy about the idea and was worried that it would particularly affect me as my Mom was handicapped and I spent a heck of a large portion of my live wheeling her around in her wheelchair. I said "hey, I've gotten a lot of practice! Don't worry about me, let's have a good time!" What we did NOT count on was how rude people were. We were stared at, looked down at, pushed into, you name it... So we decided that we would not eat in the formal dining room to spare ourselves at least a little dignity. In doing so, we had a LOT more fun. We had breakfrast delivered to us in the room, while we listened to Billie Holiday and we would take the chair to the upper deck for dinner and make these ridiculous exorbitant salads and eat them with a window seat of nothing but ocean view. We especially timed this EVERY night so that around the middle of dinner, we could scoot out to the back deck and take pictures of the sun going down. Here are a couple of them (a few of these were taken from our balcony).







That alone was worth the trip. We unplugged the TV and plugged in the iPod and listened to all of our favorite music while we sunned and played some card games that we had brought with us. Before you ask, I am the INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION for Magic and Uno during our Honeymoon.




With all of the pain she was in, and all of the stress because of it, we still had a GREAT time. In Mazatlan, I don't think we would have gotten off the ship anyway after we woke up to this view...



So that was a pool day for us, which was fine since the ship was empty...




When we landed in Cabo, we learned that we would have to take a smaller boat to the mainland, but that it was worth it. So we decided to make a go of it since it was out last stop. The trip was rough, but when we got there, EVERYTHING was within walking distance so we waddled over to a couple restaurants and ate some mexican tacos and bought some stuff off of the street vendors, you know... just being tourists. It was painful for Kelly to do so, so we didn't last long there, just enough time to eat and pick up some stuff for the kids.










As you can obviously see, we made the best of it. We had a good time that would have been much better. We've promised ourselves to take a "real honeymoon" once all of Kelly's back shenannigans are straightened out. As you can see from the last picture posted above, we're smiling and enjoying the time off and together and at the end of the day, that's what it was all about.

I'll leave you with one more picture, the coolest thing we were able to do in our situation...



Yes... We got to hold a real live Jaguar. It was totally the coolest thing that happened the whole trip, we still talk about how cool it was.

Kelly... I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow. Keep fighting, you know were all behind you holding you up when you can't do it for yourself. You've got a team here and we all want nothing more than to see you painfree and riding on your skateboard.