2 - And The Short-Lived Honeymoon Begins

6/3/09

The short-but-sweet ceremony ended with a kiss and some nervous laughter. We took a few more formally posed and a few candid pictures to take full advantage of a gloriously beautiful sunset at a western shore of sugar sand before we signed the official papers and headed up to the hotel for an outdoor dinner and COCKTAILS!! Oh, with the mountain of nerves, these flowed with a heavy hand this particular night, both in celebration and relief that the actual "I Dos" were complete.

We dined and toasted with a high-end champagne and finished with a lovely 2-layer wedding cake prepared by an award-winning French-trained pasty chef. It was amazing, but tasted disgusting! LOL Ever tasted fondant? Eeee-yuck! Anyway, by the time the cake was cut, I had enough bubbly in my system to anesthetize my taste buds, my nerves, my heart, my truckload of worry weighing me down. Good thing. Now, if I could have just kept that up for the rest of the honeymoon....

So, the vacay was to last the 5 days of that week, with the newlyweds (US!) exploring and enjoying the island. I work hard, so this vacation was very much needed, very much anticipated. We planned to lay on the beach, eat out, and have as much fun as we could. It was winter, but the weather was fair...too cold for me to enjoy a swimsuit in the water but nice enough to be outside and wear all the amazingly adorable shoes AND sundresses I had brought with me. All throughout the week and even leading up to the honeymoon, we both had discussed that the one thing we wanted to do was spend a night dancing, hopefully to live music. Genre of music, location, what we wore really made no difference. It was just the one thing I really had my heart set on and had stated was the only thing I really wanted to make sure we did that week, to which the groom replied, "I WILL make that happen." Score one in the PLUS column for him!

We had a wine pairing dinner dressed to the nines one night, which I would sign up to do every night of my life if I could. We wandered the island, shopping, cuddling, eating and drinking like we were, well, on vacation! Our time was slipping away, and it was finally the last night and still the dancing eluded us. So, we made plans to dress up and go to a place on the island that was called Dinner and a Movie (after which he promised we would search high and low for a place to dance). Now, I had never done "dinner and a movie" before and did not even know that this existed, but let me say that I thoroughly enjoy this innovative concept! If youve never been able to try this, the idea is that you go to a movie theater with first-run movies and sit either theater style in your run-of-the-mill theater seating but with little retractable tabletops like old-school school primer desks or sit (first come/first served) at various levels at actual tables to dine while you watch the movie, a fully equipped restaurant, complete with waitresses and tipping and the whole works. Superb idea!! and a lot of fun.

I wore a sassy dress and heels and was excited to give this a try. I loved it! We sat at a small table and ordered our casual food and a pitcher of beer. This night was turning into such fun. The movie was some odd love story, an inane plotline where Jennifer Anniston is pursued by Kevin Costner. I really dont remember the story line, but as we ate our food and downed our beer, I remember ribbing (now) DH2, repetitively saying...who cares how stupid the story line is - Its. Kevin. Costner. - and I would sleep with him too if he were in MY movie! I thought I was hysterical as I quite honestly see nothing at all attractive about KC, but he is the "Mr. Dreamy" of my generation, so it was a good line. I do have to say that I was totally oblivious to the fact that I alone thought my joking was funny and innocently continued my sarcastic onslaught. Little did I know that on this last day of the supposedly happiest week of our life I was getting under the skin of Mr. Thoughtful, Mr. Im Not Who I Lead You To Believe I Was, "The Hubs..."

Well, well, Elle: Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

TODAY:
Well, I had some work today again. I hope this is a good trend. I hauled all Baby N's stuff in, worked on a dress, did all my laundry, talked to family and friends, saw my DD and just had a fairly unremarkable day. Realtor called and said yesterday's open house went well. I have a sneaking suspicion that DH2 (STBX) is coming to town this weekend from his land far, far away. Pray Im wrong. He called this week about the house, and I was pleasant but short with him. The line in the sand has been drawn, and there will be NO crossing it.

MOOD:
Okey-dokey!