the honeymoon

The time has come that you all have been waiting for: honeymoon details.

Val and I left the reception, via Sherman the chauffeur, and stayed downtown.  We enjoyed our short but swanky stay at the Westin on Main Street.  We were up at 330am and at the airport by 4am.  We enjoyed a nice taxi ride to GSP airport and flew from GSP to Charlotte.  Our flight from Charlotte took us straight to Montego Bay, Jamaica!

A little culture shock hit us as soon as we entered real world Jamaica and began to see the people and hear the dialect and accents.  We had a small bus (courtesy of JTL Tours) take us to our resort, Secrets.

YA, MON!

We were not able to check in until 3, but once we got in our room both of us crashed and we slept from about 5pm Sunday to 8am Monday morning.  Yes, we were exhausted.

Monday morning we were treated to a champagne breakfast.  We both highly recommend the jerk sausage. so good.

Secrets is an all inclusive resort, so we were able to participate in a lot of what the resort offered.  They had pools (two with swim-up bars), beaches with lounging chairs and thatch huts, canoeing, glass-bottom boat ride, seven restaurants, nightly entertainment (including steel drums performance, jamaican circus, house band, 'secrets got talent' show, piano bar, and a beach party), ping-pong, coffee bar, shops, and I'm sure there is more I'm forgetting.  

JAMAICAN ME CRAZY!

NO WORRIES MON!

 

One of the days we took an excursion into Montego Bay.  We decided on a shopping excursion, which took us to three locations.  We went to two novelty/tourist shops, a small market shop, and of the large outside markets.  This was quite an experience.  Karen (shown below) was our guide.  She was great to have with us!

The honeymoon was an all around success.

We had a delay in Charlotte, but we got back home around midnight on Friday.
We were welcomed home as soon as we got off the plane by the Millers, and we arrived home to a house full gifts, streamers, and balloons.