HONEYMOON

So I never really blogged about our honeymoon!

Well in the first place, it was a complete surprise and total last minute decision. Monday morning, I slept it, as I was completely exhausted! Brad called me about noon and said, "hey..do you want to go to Florida tomorrow?" I was like, "What!??" Last I knew we had planned on going to South Dakota to buy cattle! But we just decided to take off and enjoy this time! Well we did!

Monday night we drove to Des moines and spent the night in a hotel. We flew out Tuesday morning at 6:30 and arrived in Orlando about 1ish.

We stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria and it was beautiful!! Totally gorgeous! The weather was amazing as well! The first day we went to the Boardwalk Inn (which is a Disney resort Brad stayed at years ago when he went to Disney World with his family--we wanted to stay there but as our trip was last minute, reservations were booked) and we walked along the boardwalk to Epcot. We got a three day park hopper pass so we started out there. We toured all the "countries", holding hands everywhere we went. :) Very romantic and very uncharacteristically brad (but I'm not complaining!).

Some of this I can't remember the exact details, but you'll get the general idea. That night we ate at a steak house (surprise --Brad asked nearly every person we saw where the best steakhouse was) called charlie's (which was incredible!) and then we watched the fireworks display at Epcot which was also romantic. :) We sat on the ground (as it was soooo crowded) and just took it all in...super sweet right? :)

So the next day I'm not really sure. We might have gone to sea world that day? I can't really remember the order of things..lol good thing I'm documenting this now before its all gone! So one day whatever day it was we went to seaworld. Saw the Orca show called 'Believe' I think. It was pretty neat. We went to Hollywood Studios and rode the Tower of Terrow which I never in a million years thought I would be able to do, but it was AWESOME! I love it. Brad begged and begged and begged and begged me to go on it with him and I was a little pissed about it to be really honest but by the time we got up there (after waiting in line for a million years!) I was pumped and he was super nervous! LOl finally we got on and it was amazing! Such a thriller! I think my heart was in my throat, but I loved it! You go up this elevator shaft and then free fall drop and then it just stops and then starts to climb back up a little and then drops again and then back up...It was awesome! We also bought our one and only souvenir at Hollywood studios....a little mickey and minnie christmas ornament. :)

We also went to animal kingdom where we went on a safari ride which was really cool! You're out there on this vehicle and the animals aren't fenced in or anything...so like this rhino was just coming down the path not far from where we were. Pretty unbelievable. I'm running out of descriptive words so bear with me. :)

We also went to the Magic Kingdom one day, but it happened to be our last day and we didn't go til later on cause we wanted to see the parade thingy, so we went to epcot earlier that day because Brad wanted to eat at the German restaurant (which we never did because apparently you need reservations like forever in advance) but anyways, we didn't get to see that much of Magic Kingdom because it was RIDICULOUSLY packed and it was getting late and we were pretty tired (so our next trip to disney needs to include more time at the Magic Kingdom--I got the gist and still had an incredible time but like I said It was dark and crowded and the weekend before Christmas..it was a mad house)

Our flight left sunday late afternoon and we were pretty wiped out. It was amazing though. A honeymoon filled with memories I will never forget. It truly was one of the most special, cherished weeks of my life.