Stephanie's Street: Honeymoon Part 1

Tim and I got married on a Friday because (A) it was cheaper and (B) I wanted to get married as quickly as possible after school was out! We looked at honeymoon destinations for MONTHS and honestly didn't have anything nailed down until about a month before the wedding. YIKES! We finally decided on a cruise after many "polite discussions" and chose the Western Carribean since neither of us had been to those places. The cruise left out of Tampa on that Sunday so we had to figure out where we were going before then. Tim's only request was that he didn't want to stay in Charleston - even Friday night. He worked downtown for years in restaurants and although he knows how beautiful Charleston is, he just didn't want to stay here. Understandable, I guess!

So then we had to figure out where we were going after our wedding reception. We ended up driving to Atlantic Beach, Florida - basically Jacksonville. Man, what a great drive. I'm sure when I post about our wedding (I'm waiting on pictures), I will include the HILARIOUS story about how we drove off as the caterer was bringing out our basket of food and neither of us had eaten ANYTHING that whole night. But I'll leave that story for another day! Needless to say, we had to do what any hungry newlywed couple would do - stop at McDonalds. And oh, that first hour and a half was magical! We talked about the whole day, who we saw at the wedding, how much fun it was, and basically discussed every detail of the wedding. But then as we were passing Savannah, things got a little quiet. A lot quiet actually as the tiredness set in. We might or might not have stopped at a rest area and set our timer on our phones for 20 minutes to get a little cat nap. REALLY romantic I'm telling ya! But we finally made it about 3:00 a.m. to Atlantic Beach, and our glorious hotel: One Ocean. It was gorgeous!

We stayed here until Sunday morning and had a great time! We went to the beach, the pool, ate sushi and went to the movies! Early Sunday morning we got up and continued the drive to Tampa.

Ironically, this was the Jacksonville newspaper headline the morning after our wedding!