Honeymoon - The First Two Days

This is the view from our bedroom.

Our villa's living room.

The plunge pool

We had robes, flowers, and champagne upon our arrival.

**These were entries I wrote to document our honeymoon trip.**

Monday, January 4th

Today is the official first day of our honeymoon. We woke up at 3:00 A.M. Daniel opted to stay up all night. I went to bed at 11:00 and got 4 hours of sleep. I checked the flight schedule before I went to bed and everything was fine. After we arrived at the airport and loaded the shuttle around 4:00 A.M., I checked the schedule and our flight was delayed 3 hours and 55 minutes. UGH!! Daniel wanted me to call, but I didn’t think that was necessary because we were almost to the airport and we would go from there. Once we got to the airport, we found out our flight was delayed for crew rest. Our crew needed a mandatory rest before they could take off again. When we got to the counter we had tow options. We could stay in Atlanta and take the one flight out to St. Lucia on Tuesday morning OR we could make 3 connections and arrive in St. Lucia at 10:30. We opted to stay in Atlanta. We were 0-1 on making connections and didn’t want to be stick in Puerto Rico. We also called Windjammer and they could change our trip days from Tuesday to Tuesday. We didn’t want to waste one of our days on travel. SO we arrived in Atlanta, ate lunch and went to our hotel. Atlanta was FREEZING! It was 29 degrees and the wind chill was way colder. We were waiting for the shuttle in our t-shirts, but chose to take a taxi after about 5 minutes. It was the best $12.00 decision we made. We got to the hotel and took a nap, ate pizza, watched the Fiesta Bowl and relaxed. It worked out okay and we were excited to start our honeymoon the next day.

Tuesday, January 5th

We woke up at 6:00 A.M. READY TO GO!!! The trip there was fairly uneventful. We got there in plenty of time and we arrived in St. Lucia around 4:00. After we got through customs and picked up our baggage, we went outside and there was a lady with a a sign that said: Ms. Amanda Bluhm. Of course Daniel made the joke that it should have said: Mrs. Amanda Wingard. The ride to the resort takes about an hour and a half. It is only 17 miles, but the drive is extremely curvy. We both did pretty well. Daniel asked the driver to turn on music because it was quiet, so he turned on reggae music that we actually recognized. When we got to the resort, we checked in and it was as smooth as it could be. Our credit card was declined because I didn’t call to let them know we were traveling. I called Wellsfargo and everything was set straight. We were in AWE of our villa. We chose to do the all-inclusive Honeymoon package so a one-bedroom villa was part of the package. It was AMAZING! It had a fully stocked kitchen (like I would be using it, but it was nice) and a formal dining table. The living room was great with cable T.V. No, we did not watch much T.V. EXCEPT for the National Championship game on Thursday. From the living room was the porch with our plunge pool and a patio table and chairs. I CANNOT say enough about our view. It was worth every penny we spent and every moment created because of it. We had 3 porches. There was one off the living room, one off the bedroom, and a roof-top porch. All porches had lounge chairs. It was AMAZING! When you walked upstairs, you entered the bedroom. The bedroom had flowers in it and a bottle of champagne waiting for us. The bed is facing a large window with the amazing view to wake up to. It turned out Daniel and I would come back to take a nap around 4:00 every day and wake up to the sunset. We would walk out to watch the sunset and it was one of my favorite times of the day. After we settled in, we went down for dinner and walked around a bit. We were tired, so we went to the room and went to sleep pretty quickly. I actually had more energy that Daniel, which was unusual. I went to take a shower and when I came out, he was out.