The Honeymoon.

I realize that I should technically blog about my wedding before I blog about my honeymoon but as you know I'm not very talented with words and depend on pictures to explain my stories and thoughts. I'll be sure to blog about my wedding as soon as pictures are available.

Andrew and I spent our first two nights at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, graciously given to us by a couple in Andrew's home ward. It was better than I had imagined. It's a condo so it has a little kitchen which came in handy since we wanted to spend only a small amount of money on this portion of our honeymoon.

We spent the first morning next to the pool trying to work on a pre tan for the cruise ;) After a few minutes my Kinesiology teacher walked in, he also happens to be one of my least favorite teachers but I can't complain too much because he gave me an A in my class this semester. It was a little awkward since he's probably the last person I wanted to see while in my string bikini the morning after my wedding.

After a nap we headed to Dairy Keen in Heber. If you have never been here, it's a great burger joint! yummy yummy burgers and shakes.


While walking out of Dairy Keen we saw my friend form school, Fabio. So that makes 2 people we know on our honeymoon.

We went into Park City to walk around the Outlet stores because I wanted to buy Andrew a new swimsuit for his graduation present. It was a success and once again we were worn out and proceeded back to the condo for a nap.

After the nap we wanted to check out the Hot Pots they have on the resort. We thought you could swim in them but apparently not.
So we went back to the pool :)
That night we had planned on going out to dinner but instead made Mac and Cheese and watched a few movies at the condo.

Sunday morning we slept in late and just hung out till it was time to go to Jakes farewell. Jake is Andrews brother. I'm really glad we went to the farewell because it's not often you actually get to see Jake being serious. He's very sarcastic and very funny and I've hardly ever seen his real emotions. We ended up staying for the after party which we had not planned to spend a little more time with him.

After the farewell we took a drive to make sure we got plenty of use out of the Mini that we were driving for the weekend. We spent the rest of the evening cleaning up and getting ready to go to the airport for our red eye to Miami.

the flight wasn't wonderful but it wasn't horrible either. We both packed two carryons to avoid checking any luggage and it proved to be very nice.
We arrived at port with plenty of time to spare before embarking on our cruise. This picture cracks me up because there are literally 100s of seats this man could choose from and he sad right next to me.
This is me laughing really hard at a funny memory of Andrew. I couldn't even finish the story because I was laughing so hard.


Finally it was time to get on the cruise. This is Andrew's 3rd cruise and my first so he took me on a tour of the boat. We ended at the buffet on deck 11 next to the swimming pool. They don't joke around when it's ALL you can eat! The food was very yummy but i'm sure nothing low cal. Before the cruise Andrew gave me talks saying "we are not going to care about calories or eating too much or how fat we are okay?!" because i'm sure he knew that i would not have indulged quite as much as I did with out his encouragement.

After stuffing ourselves we found a couple chairs to take a nap in till our state room was ready. Mean while I did some people watching and found these awesome black men. There were actually 4 of them all together wearing the exact same shirt with cargo pants. They made me laugh, this is something 13 year old girls would do.
After our nap we went back for more food. I only got cheese which became my favorite thing to eat on the cruise. It was amazing cheese and the best bread to eat it on. I'm sure it was not good for me but i couldn't resist.
Honestly at first I didn't love the cruise and there are still some things I don't like about cruising. 1 The typical people you find on cruises are very over weight, loud, and do nothing but drink and stuff their faces. It's just the American Dream. Do nothing and eat all day! I'm not a huge fan of typical American behavior and like to be a little more active. Of course you can do other things besides that. They have a weight room, cardio room, and aerobics room where fitness classes are held. Three swimming pools, 5 hot tubs, ping pong tables, a running track, movies playing in your room all the time, and of course people watching.

This guy's beer belly was awesome and we couldn't resist getting a picture.
After the first day the cruise began to grow on me. Dinner was amazing food was a beautiful view. Since we hadn't had much sleep the night before because of our red eye, we actually ended up skipping the shows and falling asleep to a movie in our room around 10.

The next day was our stop at Freeport. I looked out the window at breakfast and was pretty disappointed what what i saw. The port was on the industrial part of the island and it definitely did not look inviting.

Since we wanted to spend as little money as possible I snuck some breads and pastries from the buffet after breakfast for lunch and stuff them in a pacsun bag so I could put them in my backpack.

We tried with all our might to walk to a beach to avoid spending our money on a taxi but with out any luck. Luckily if you took a big van it only cost you 5 dollars a person. We were dropped off at the Radison Hotel on lucaya beach and were informed that it would be $30 for a day pass to get on the beach. Assuming they were just trying to rip us off Andrew and I just walked away and headed to the beach. Sure enough they were going to make us pay $30 dollars to go on to their beach but i was determined to not pay. We walked down about a block to another entrance where there was a guard who asked us if we were going to the beach and that if we where than we had to turn around and go to the other entrance. I told her no and just kept walking. After that no one asked any questions and we had a wonderful day on the beach!
It was very pretty with white sands and clear ocean.
Andrew didn't want to make a sand castle he just wanted to make something to protect from the rising tide...boys.

He had never seen anyone make what my family called "hodo's" and was very impressed :)

Taxi ride back after our fill of beach time!

This is us next to our ship The Norwegian Sky

Back on the ship i'm pretty sure we ate and took a nap. It's crazy how exhausting a lazy day at the beach can be.

Andrew doing a typical Andrew pose in the elevator.
Another favorite on the ship, soft serve ice cream! I'm sure the crew mates got sick of Andrew and I coming back again and again for more. And I'm even more sure that they didn't like me after I promptly dropped my cone all over the deck.
I feel bad for this guy. But you have to admit it's pretty funny...
This girl caught my eye from across the deck. Her boobs are soooo big but she has the smallest waist too! dude.
While getting ready for dinner the room maids kept trying to get into our room. I kinda freaked out because I didn't know why they wanted to get into our room again because they had already cleaned it. Andrew informed me that they actually clean your room twice a day! How sweet is that!?

We went to the same place for dinner and I had the same yummy salad for my starter. Which is the 3rd favorite of the cruise.

We had the most beautiful view of the sunset almost every night. It was so very romantic and wonderful!
After dinner we went to a few shows. Starting with the comedian magician who I really enjoyed and then stayed for dancing with the stars.

We occasionally ordered ourselves virgin yummy fruity drinks of the sort.
For dancing with the stars they take a crew member and draw names for participants from the crowd. My favorite couple was couple number 5. The crew member was probably 4'5" and his partner was at least 5'7". They were so funny to watch.

Day 3 was my favorite day. We went to Stirrup Cay which is owned by Norwegian. There were no taxi rides, no locals trying to rip us off, free food on the island, it was wonderful! We took the first boat over and were some of the first people on the island. We promptly put on our snorkel gear and went out into the water. There were lots of fish to see but not much coral. My favorite fish were these striped fish that would follow us everywhere. We would hurry and swim ahead and sure enough a couple seconds later we would see them coming towards us. They would just hang out with us the entire time and were so much fun. We also saw a barracuda. I wasn't sure if Andrew knew that these fish were not friendly fish and were known for attacking humans so i freaked out when he started swimming towards it. He told me later that he thought it didn't look friendly but he wanted to get a picture.

The beach was also great for people watching. I'm assuming this couple is form Europe judging from their swimsuit choices.

Written with sunscreen

There were a few places were we could look for little crabs and Andrew decided he wanted to take one home with him in a cup. He moved around for a bit and we gave him some salt water and a nice rock but i'm pretty sure he cold too cold in our state room and didn't make it.

We actually worked out for once when we got back to the boat. After showering we went exploring. We found the front deck on the boat and noticed the a storm was coming. As we headed into the storm at got more and more windy!

This was one of our favorite parts of the trip. It was fun to watch the storm come in and watch the waves.

That night we wanted to get dressed up for dinner so we took a little extra time getting ready and didn't get seated in our favorite restaurant on the boat but the other restaurant was almost just as good.

Yes our camera is on the rail of the ship.

We had someone take this picture for us.

We were supposed to hit up the White Hot Dance Party that night at the pool deck and I wanted to make sure I was ready to party so Andrew told me I could take a quick nap and he would wake me up so we could go. I woke up at 2:00 am to Andrew turning off the lights. He had fallen asleep as well and we missed the dance party.

Fourth day was Nassau. It reminded me a lot of Central America. Lot of little shops with the exact same things in each of them. We were really confused by a sign that said "poo oils now available". what are Poo Oils?

Fourth day was Nassau. It reminded me a lot of Central America. Lot of little shops with the exact same things in each of them. After shopping for a bit we took a ferry to Paradise Island which is about 9 miles long and very skinny. It has Atlantis Resort on it which takes of 70% of the island. I didn't get any pictures of it but the resort is HUGE! between two towers there is what looks like a bridge, we learned that it is actually a suit costing 25,000 dollars a night. Although the minimum nights you can stay is 4 nights so you actually have to pay 100,000 to stay in this suit. The crazy part is that it's booked for the next 4 years. It's housed many stars including Opra. We also saw Mick Jaggers house, Nicolas Cages house, and the set where one of the original James Bond movies were filmed.

Other than that the island was very disappointing, it was $40 dollars to go anywhere but the casino at Atlantis. All in all, not worth the 12 dollars to go see it, or at least go early in the morning so you can spend all day at the resort for your $40.

After that we both felt like going back to the boat and crashing because we had walked a lot that day.

We finished off the day with dinner and some really good shows.

We disembarked around 7:30 am the next day and made it to the air port around 8:00 am. Our flight didn't leave till 2:00pm.

We ate yummy Cinnamon rolls.

I slept a lot because I actually got sick the last night and felt exhausted.

Their was a birdy in the airport!

That was a long post and I hope I didn't forget anything. I would definitely do a cruise again but i think i would choose a different location. Norwegian was a great company to go with, I didn't have any disappointments.