We did Bed and Breakfasts across New England for our honeymoon. We flew out of Boston and the last night we spent at an Inn in Concord, Mass. Not far from the Inn is Author’s Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. We made a special trip there to get a picture of Kristen at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s grave with her fingers shaped in an “A” and wearing her best Hester Prynn smile…
Good stuff newcrasher, congrats btw.
Mrs. Lobotomy and I went to Barbados on our honeymoon last month. It was so nice and warm. We’re from DC where it is rainy and miserable out. We were literally two of the only American tourists on the island. Being that it was so soon after the WTC attack no one was vacationing much less boarding a plane. They treated us so nicely down there that we are thinking of returning in the next few years. We just sat on the beach, did a few touristy things, and had a good time. I must recommend Glitter Bay in Barbados highly. It was perfect.
This post was supposed to be part of my thread called “Inspired by Jarbabyj…” somehow I created a new thread. Please accept my apologies and move it, or just let it languish here as a sort of cryptic half story with no background. I will try to do better!
We spent 8 days at two luxury resorts (4 days each) one at Ochos Rios and the other at Negril (both in Jamaica). Alas, the stress of the wedding (even though it was low-key) ran me down and I caught what was perhaps the worst cold of my life. I spent much of our honeymoon in bed, but not the way you’re supposed to, wink nudge. Both were all-inclusive resorts which meant food and drinks were included in the price. I ate nothing but pineapple for a few days. Sigh.
The funny thing is, we decided to do a “second honeymoon” in Maine a few summers later. I started feeling sick then too. I thought we were cursed, but as it turns out I was in the first few weeks of pregnancy!
If I had to do it over again, I’d have chosen a much cheaper honeymoon, probably one in the states. Then we could spend the money on a non-honeymoon trip to Europe or something after all the fuss had died down. Live and learn!
No, it makes for kind of an interesting poll (though then it should be in IMHO). I like hearing where people took their honeymoons, and what they did.
We spent a week and a half in the Caymans, all on the big island. Took a submarine ride across the plunging underwater escarpment, sailed on an old galleon replica and did the stingray city dive. Ate at wonderful restaurants and basked in the sun. Someday we’ll definately go back.
Okay, I’ll play.
We did a standard 7-day cruise to the Western Carribean, loved it. It was nice because we took a week between wedding and honeymoon to get things ready at the house, so we weren’t rushed out of the reception to leave for a trip.
The only mistake we made was going down to Miami the night before. We did this on our previous cruise and it made it nice not to have to fly down and immediately run for the cruise ship. But we flew down on the 4th of July, bad idea. We ended up in a less-than-ideal hotel, trapped because the automatic tram that runs around downtown was shut down for the fireworks. And we were advised that we really didn’t want to walk anywhere off the hotel grounds (it was in a great neighborhood).
Other than that we had a great time. The highlight was swimming with the southern rays off of Grand Cayman.
We didn’t really have a honeymoon as our elopement was decidedly hasty. But when I returned from my Rota deployment in time for our first anniversary, we took a cruise - that is, we cruised in our boat down the St. Johns River. It was December and very cold for Florida - got into the teens a few nights!! We didn’t have a TV on the boat and we didn’t stay in marinas. It shouldn’t be a surprise that I got pregnant on that trip.
Them were the days…
Mrs. Dog and I took our first honeymoon last new year’s. We went to Cancun Mexico (and brought along the in-laws). I’d recommend Cancun. I wouldn’t recommend the in-laws.
We took our “second” honeymoon just a month or so ago. We went on a whirlwind 14-day trip through Europe (8 countries). I’d definitely recommend Europe, but if it’s your first honeymoon - stick to a single country! Absolutely loved Paris and Munich. We’re definitely going to go back for a week in each city.
Anyone try out the south of Europe (Greece or Portugal for example)?
Mr. Grace and I went to Cancun. We went shopping, sampled the local cuisine, visited the fleamarkets, did more sampling, snorkeled, and spent one full day in bed. Unfortunately it was the day after snorkeling and the fair-skinned Mr. Grace had a severe sunburn and couldn’t move off his stomach. He spent the entire day in pain. 
hubby and I first went to Cooperstown to see the baseball hall of fame for a weekend. It was great fun, but he had to be back at school on Monday (he was an English Teacher)
So then, when Christmas break came around, we went to Disney World for a week, stayed at the Grand Floridian, got room service…all that. It was great.
The funniest part of our honeymoon was that the day after our wedding I woke up to find I had pink eye (conjunctivitis). Mr. Jar rolled over, and lovingly put a kiss on my neck and I screamed, “DON’T TOUCH ME!”
It was a good start to married life.
jar
You certainly sound like a lot of fun…
I hope the conjunctivitis didn’t last the entire honeymoon, we experience a little technical difficulty, but managed to overcome it the very next evening. And no, it wasn’t a problem with the “little Lobotomy.”
I’ll add our story.
Although we live in southern Ontario, Canada, my wife is originally from Colorado. She hadn’t been back in about ten years, and I had never been there (but I love mountains), so we decided on Colorado.
We toured around, stopping in many of the places she knew (she lived in a few different parts in the state). We did some of the regular tourist things, as well as visited some of the places that were important to her (her schools and colleges, houses she lived in, places she liked to go), and caught up with a few of her old friends whom I had heard about. And, since she’s been a Denver Broncos fan all her life, we even managed to take in a Broncos game! (And how many guys can honestly claim that their new wife insisted that they go to a football game on their honeymoon?)
But it was nice to visit Colorado, and to be able to attach faces and places to my wife’s past. She had seen many of the important things in my past, and it was good to see hers.
We went on a 4 day cruise out of Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico and back, then 3 days in San Diego. The funny thing was that 2 days before our wedding, Mrs D. had hurt her knee, so she was walking with a limp on the cruise ship. When we got to Ensenada, we went horse riding. As she was trying to get off the horse, she hurt her OTHER knee. So now she can’t hardly walk at all and we still had 2 more cruise days and then San Diego (where we went to the Zoo and saw practically nothing because she could not walk faster than .5 miles per hour).
Dang, Spoons, I thought I would be the first one with a cold weather honeymoon. Mrs. Babe and got married December 2, and had the reception in the Newberry Library in Chicago. It was about 65 degrees the day of the wedding.
Our honeymoon was to go to Banff, Canada, about 90 miles from Calgary. We had reservations at the O’Hare Hilton to easily catch our early flight out. After the reception, we basically just bickered the entire way to the airport. I don’t even remember what it was about. Mrs. Babe’s sister lives near the airport, so she dropped off our luggage earlier in the day. We get to the airport and pick it up, but they don’t record the fact that we picked it up. (This gets important later).
All that day, Mrs. Babe kept asking me “Do you have your passport? Do you have your passport?” I always replied that yes, I did have it. Well, one of us, who was not me, didn’t have it. I waited at the airport while she cabbed home to get it. We thus missed our direct flight to Calgary and were rerouted through Toronto. We asked the ticket agent several times if we had to go through customs in Toronto or when we finally arrived at Calgary. She assured us that we would do customs at our final destination. She was wrong.
We get to Calgary 4 hours later than originally scheduled, with no luggage and too late for the last shuttle for the 2 hours to the hotel. Ok, we report the luggage and rent a car. A small car. A veeeeerrrrrrry small car. I am not small.
“Ya’ better hurry.” says the car rental agent, “There’s a big blizzard on its way.” Oh, great. I am driving with my knees at my chin, in an unfamiliar car, in an unfamiliar country, in the dark, trying to beat a blizzard. I don’t even speak Canadian.
We finally get to the Chateau Lake Louise near Banff. The snow has been coming down pretty well now for about 30 minutes. We go up the counter and say our names. They have never heard of us. At this point, we are practically begging to stay in a broom closet, anywhere. They took pity on us and gave us a great room overlooking the (frozen) Lake Louise. The next day we got our luggage, and found out that our families were frantic because the O’Hare Hilton (remember that?) had told them that we never picked up our luggage. They figured the cabbie had stripped us naked and dropped us off at 77th and Cottage Grove or something.
After that, the honeymoon was great, except for Mrs. Babe tearing her Anterior C______ Ligament skiing. We told everyong that I broke her on our honeymoon. The emergency room visit, doctor fees, leg brace and 10 Tylenols with codein cost us a whopping $350.00. Ya’ gotta love socialized medicine. We didn’t even bother submitting it to insurance.
Hubby and I spent our honeymoon in the Keys. We camped at the Fiesta Key KOA Kampground, which was actually very nice. We had a lot of fun there, and went back a couple of years later.
Hey Abe Babe! I got married on December 3rd! Happy Soon Anniversary!
Our visit to Cooperstown was interesting not only because of the Conjunctivitis, but because:
- We were the ONLY people in the hotel. The whole staff spoke to us by name. (Cooperstown is obviously a summer place)
and
- We were both so tired from driving that instead of getting jiggy on our honeymoon, we decided to get pizza and watch the Dolphins game on ESPN
jar
That’s even worse than when the missus and I, after some time apart when we were dating, got all nekkid and then watched “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
(Insert “banging” joke here)
We are doing the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker on the weekend after our anniversary for our anniversary. Do you have any big plans?
Wow! Despite your wife’s history of ACL trouble? That’s really something!
I’d come see, but I’m busy this year. What are you doing next year? Can I suggest Firebird, maybe? Or Giselle?
We’re going out for Italian Food, and since it’s our seventh anniversary, we’re both going to go out and have affairs with people too young for us.
jar