Honeymoon: Final Post!

Here are the last few pictures from our honeymoon! Enjoy!

 

Our view from lunch one day!

 

Tequila shots with our new friends! Simon & Helen from England and Rick & Cecilia from New Jersey (Cecelia did not take a shot b/c she is preg. :) ) Please also notice my splotchy right arm. Hot. 

Peacocks!

 

These guys were everywhere!

 

 Sunset catamaran ride on Friday evening.

 

 Beautiful at night, too!

 

 Being seranaded by the acoustic guitarists..our favorite server, Manuel, is second from the right.

 

 Our last dinner.

 

 My handsome husband!

 

 Posing with my friend while waiting on our shuttle to leave. :(

Honeymoon: Part 2!

On Monday of the hmoon, while Cameron was puffin' on a cigar on the porch, I decided to start documenting our trip so I wouldn't forget anything! And boy and I glad I did because I needed to read back over it to remind me what all we did! Which was mostly relaxing by the pool, eating, and drinking, but still...

 

Rather than go through day by day recaps and bore you to death, I figured I'd just post a few pics with captions. Because a typical day was usually get breakfast, Cameron go to the gym (I went once!), go to the pool, order guacamole & pico at 12, get lunch, lay out a little longer, go back to the room and hang out before getting ready for dinner, dinner, after dinner drinks, bed. Repeat.

As part of our honeymoon package, there was a champagne breakfast in bed service that we scheduled for Wednesday morning and ate on our porch.

 Representin' my Gamecocks in Mexico!

 Cameron woke up early one morning and couldn't fall back asleep so he got took some awesome sunrise pictures!

 Our main man, Manuel, ordered this special dessert for us. :)

We got massages on Thursday (sorry, no pics of that) and on the side of the spa building, the resort grows their very own herbs and veggies! Thought that was pretty cool.

 Since our massages were on Thursday, we were scared to get sunburned. Talk about painful. So the picture below is on Friday, our first full blown day in the sun! haha.

 Our daily guac and pico! So, so good!

 Playing around with my sister's fancy camera she let us borrow for the trip.

The Honeymoon Recap Begins!

I'm finally sitting down to recap our honeymoon today!

 

We decided to wait until Monday after the wedding to leave for the honeymoon and that was one of the best decisions we made! Sunday we were lucky enough to have a post-wedding family brunch thrown for us and after that (me still with my wedding up-do), we just lounged on the couch allllllll day stalking FB for pictures and just talking about the wedding. Didn't even start packing for the honeymoon until about 8pm that night and we had to wake up the next morning at 4am. We managed to get it all done and don't even think we forgot anything!

 

So Monday morning rolls around and we leave Charleston around 7:30am to take a quick flight to Charlotte. Once in Charlotte we had about 2 hours to spare so we grabbed a bloody mary and ate a piece of wedding cake that I packed in my bag. :) I wanted to actually enjoy a piece and didn't think it would last until we got back home!

 

While waiting for our flight to Cancun, they came over the speaker and said that they had 2 open seats in first class if anyone wanted to upgrade. Cameron decided that we wanted those seats and boy were they worth the upgrade, especially for a 2.5 hour flight! It was both of our first times flying first class and we took full advantage. Complimentary drinks and seats that layed all the way horizontal? Yes please!

 

We landed at the Cancun airport around 12:30pm their time and were picked up in a Mercedes van by a sweet man whose name I forgot. We were offered cool, scented towels and glasses of champagne. Very nice! The ride to our resort was only about 20 minutes from the airport to our paradise! Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita!

When we arrived we were greeted by a woman named Myra who walked us around the resort showing us where everything was and then lead us to our room. I was happily surprised to see that Cameron upgraded us (again) to a suite with our very own plunge pool!

 

After we glanced around the room we immediately went to grab some lunch because although it was only 1pm there, it was 3pm to our minds and stomachs. We went to Kaax, which is one of the two places that serves lunch. The other place being the poolside grill. Kaax served sandwiches, salads, sushi & ceviche mostly.

After lunch we went to layout by the pool! The spot you could find us during the majority of the honeymoon. We texted our families and told them that there was a webcam on the website. They seemed to have fun finding us on it. :)

 For dinner that night we decided to go to the fancy restaurant called La Canoa. We had the pleasure of meeting Manuel, who quickly became our favorite employee of the trip. La Canoa starts out every meal with an amuse-bouche, followed by some pieces of parmesan cheese that's been aged for 24 months and some olive oil/balsamic vinegar. That night we ordered scallops as an appetizer, and then both ordered a mixed green salad with strawberries, pistachios and balsamic dressing and filet with a crispy Portobello on top. Too full for dessert. This place isn't your average all inclusive resort with mediocre buffet food.





Not Manuel, but he was still nice. :)



 

 

And that's a wrap for day one! I promise the rest of the days won't be as lengthy. :)

 



Wedding Wednesday: Honeymoon Booked!

Well, as of last Friday, Cameron booked our honeymoon AND our passports arrived in the mail! Talk about great timing! Side note - Our passports only took 3 weeks to arrive in our mailbox. High five!

We are going to.....

Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita in Riviera Maya! 

We fell in love with the Zoetry resorts (there are 3) because of their boutique feel (our resort only has 91 suites), their all inclusive packages, and the top notch customer service we read about. It also helped that our travel agent has actually been to this resort. We just really wanted a place we could relax and not fight for a lounge chair. 

So happy to have this checked off of the to-do list!

Wedding Wednesday: Honeymoon Essentials.

 

Cameron and I are deep in the middle of planning our honeymoon and are so close to making a decision! Looking at all of the pictures of clear blue water, frozen drinks and infinity pools have really got my mind thinking about what I am going to need to pack!  

 

Am I missing any essentials? I do know I will need to bring bugspray just in case!
Where did you are/are you going on your honeymoon? Do tell!!