Hi everyone! I hope
you all had a wonderful holiday season.
Eric and I certainly did – we spent a lot of time with family, ate
delicious food, drank a lot of wine, and indulged in some much needed rest and
relaxation. But now it’s 2013, and our
wedding is officially 17.5 months away, so we are ready to concentrate on
wedding planning this year!
(PS: I got a lot of
heat for taking a 2 week hiatus from the blog!
I will try not to let it happen again!)
One of the things that Eric was most excited to talk about
and plan regarding the wedding was the honeymoon! For those of you that don’t know Eric too
well, he is very well-travelled and has been to many places around the globe, including
some that most people wouldn’t even dream of.
He loves to visit new places and experience new cultures, and a big trip
like a honeymoon is right up his alley!
So naturally, he got right on it.
It didn’t really matter to me too much where we decided to
go, because travel means a lot to Eric so I want him to have a really cool
experience, and we manage to have a blast no matter where we are. But, I did have a couple requests so that we
didn’t end up honeymooning in a Mongolian mud hut:
1.
No hostels, dirty places, scummy areas, or
dangerous parts of the world. I’m kind
of a princess like that. Eliminates:
places like Iraq, Afghanistan, the bowels of South East Asia, Serbia, Israel
and Palestine, etc.
“I don’t care if you are on your honeymoon, get in line!”
2.
There needs to be a good mix of fun activities
and places to just chill and relax. I am not really looking to lie around on the beach
for 10 days, but I also don’t want us to be hiking up mountains every day
either. I would like us to spend some parts
of the trip enjoying each other and relaxing after all the wedding stress, and
some parts doing some crazy fun once in a lifetime activities. Eliminates:
resort-type places like Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, Dominican, etc.
Definitely nice, but gets kind of boring after a while.
3.
There had to be some kind of romance
factor. It’s our honeymoon, and it
should feel like it! Eliminates: places
like the aforementioned Mongolian mud hut.
Oh come on...a little candlelight, flowers, soft music, and
this place is romance-central.
4.
It has to be somewhere Eric has never been. I want us to experience everything together
for the first time. You’d think this
would be easy but Eric has been all around the world! Eliminates: the following countries - Austria,
Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Ghana,
Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, The
Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States,
and Vietnam.
Hey Eric, how about a gorilla trek? Oh.
Let’s go check out some traditional African
celebrations! Hmmm, never mind.
We could ride camels in the Sahara desert? Oh right.
Ooh, look, the tallest building in the- damnit!
Those are all real photos of Eric's. Wow right?!
So through some discussions we came up with a few contenders
of where we both might like to go including the Mediterranean, Ireland, and the British
Virgin Islands, but then decided on the best option....South Africa!
Helllloooooo Cape Town!
This is really the best option for us because it has
everything we could possibly want in a vacation. We are close to some nice sandy beaches to
relax and sprawl out, but there are also a ton of really awesome things to see
and do in that part of the world. Some
of the highlights that we are looking forward to:
Wine Country – As lovers of wine (or as we are more
appropriately named, winos) we will be pretty close to heaven in the South
African wine region. We have had a great
time touring the Niagara region and most recently the Okanagan (where we got
engaged!) so visiting the wineries, tasting great wine, and bringing home many
souvenir bottles will definitely be in order.
Don’t mind if I do....
Safari – No way are we visiting Africa and not going on safari. We will head up to Kruger National Park,
where I will probably pee myself with glee when I see my first big cat. Lions and elephants and giraffes, oh my!
OMGOMGOMGOMG
Shark Cage Diving – Boom.
Up close and personal with the Great White. I’ll probably pee myself again, not out of
glee but out of sheer terror.
View from the cage.
Pretty awesome!
So while we have lots to look forward to with planning the
wedding, our social, our bachelor and bachelorette parties, and then
experiencing the big day, we are pretty excited about jet setting off on our
honeymoon too!
Happy Wedding Wednesday!!!
~M
1 comments:
How exciting that you've picked a honeymoon destination! That is going to be amazeballs. Going on a safari and seeing big cats is right near the top of my bucket list :)
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