The ABC's of our Honeymoon!!

A little more creative way to blog about our honeymoon! Enjoy!

A is for the Avia hotel in Long Beach.
Our wedding night and first weekend was spent in a trendy, posh hotel in the Long Beach Harbor. Included with our hotel room was a free meal at the restaurant. We had delicious food and got to walk around the light house and see the Queen Mary.

B is for the beach!
Once we got to Mexico, the hotel was right on the beach. It was such a beautiful view and our favorite thing to do was just relax on the beach all day.

C is for cake!
The woman who made our wedding cake also made us a mini version for us to have on our honeymoon! Yum!!! It was so delicious!

D is for D519,
our room number at the hotel :)

E is for Edgar!
When we went in to Cabo San Lucas one day, we had our new amigo Edgar give us a ride out to the Arc on his boat, the Booty Chaser!!

F is for Fiesta!
One night, we went to a fiesta at the restaurant on the beach the hotel runs. It was a special night they had once a week with a buffet, music and entertainment, and fireworks! We got to taste all sorts of authentic Mexican food, see authentic Mexican dancers and listen to authentic Mexican music. They had a host that was hilarious and he even brought KR and a few others up on stage to dance!

G is for GREAT food!!
We made sure whenever we spent money on food, it was authentic!

H is for hilarious!
So when we were in Cabo San Lucas, we were laying on the beach, surrounded by spring breakers, and this lady gets swept away by a wave. She's most likely a little more than tipsy and she can't get herself back up. She is cracking up and washing back and forth in the waves. All the while, her gentleman friend is trying to help her up but he can't keep up with the waves. I honestly was starting to get nervous but she was cracking up. Finally someone else helped her up and I had to snap a picture. OH man, hilarious!

I is for Iggy!
Of course we saw a few of these while we were in Mexico. It was so cool to see them roaming freely!
J is for Just married!
I have always seen these sandals that leave imprints in the sand and after expressing my desire to have them someday, I received them as a shower gift! It was so fun to walk on the sand with them (even though they gave me blisters haha)!!!
K is for kids!
There was a separate pool that was the same temperature as the hot tub and it had these bushes surrounding it that were shaped like kids! It reminded me of the Small World, at Disneyland!
L is for Light House in Long Beach.
As mentioned before, we stayed in Long beach for about a day and a half before flying out to Mexico. It was really neat and relaxing in a totally different way. We pretty much slept all Sunday because we were so exhausted haha.
M is for Mega!
Because our condo had a full kitchen, we planned ahead of time to purchase most our food and make it at the condo, rather than eating out every meal. Hello! We're newlyweds and need to save money! Anyway, there was a Mega not too far from our condo so we walked there the first day and stocked up! It's basically Walmart, in all ways but one: they allow these sales guys to dress just like their employees, trick customers into thinking they work there, offer to let you try all the cheeses so you can decide which one to buy, and then they allow them to creep around and pop up around every corner and try to sell you activity packages (like snorkeling and horseback riding). Ah! Well we had to literally duck and hide from Hussein, but we got some the best mango and pineapple we ever tasted! We also had egg and potato burritos pretty much every night and even more than once a day. Mmm.
N is for Newlyweds!
Well, it's true!



O is for Ocean view!!
This was the panorama picture I took from our balcony!

P is for Pool!
Our second favorite place to relax and lay out when we got "tired" of the beach, was the pool! It was such a nice pool and so pretty!

Q is for Quite adorable!
Haha, ok Q is a hard letter but we took so many pictures of us that I love but aren't easy to use in the alphabet haha.



R is for Real Mexico!
We stayed in an area that was a lot less touristy than Cabo San Lucas and we got to really experience the real way of life for Mexicans. It was so neat to see how they live day to day. We even saw some kids getting out of school and ate at a few hole-in-the-wall places with excellent food.


S is for Sea of Cortez!
Where we stayed in Mexico, San Jose del Cabo, we were at the end of the Baja peninsula. The ocean we were looking out on was technically the Sea of Cortez. It was realllly confusing to be looking East and seeing the ocean (being from the beach and always knowing the beach is either West or South from me and my main point to determine what way I am facing). I pride myself on having a sense of direction but that totally through me off!
Anyway, one day we took a bus about 30 minutes more south and went to the very tip of Baja; this is where Cabo San Lucas is located. It is MUCH more populated and very Americanized and to add to it all, we were there during Spring Break. We took the Booty Chaser out to the Arc and we got to see the point where the Sea of Cortez and my beloved Pacific Ocean meet! There were some beautiful rock formations and some incredible waves crashing! The splash was insane! I was pretty scared, but not enough to miss a photo op! (Do I look very comfortable in my seat? No, I was about to barf! haha jk...kinda)

T is for Towels!
KR made us these nice lounge chairs in the sand on a slope! SO comfy!


U is for Ultima!
Ultima means last and we were literally the last flight out of the airport the night day we left. It was so weird, seeing as there is a never-ending amount of flights from LAX haha.


V is for Vacation!
It was seriously the best vacation and very much needed! We were so grateful and blessed!!


W is for Water!
KR took this picture from the plane (because I didn't dare look) and oh my goodness! Look at that water!!


X is for
.....what eXactly is the Super Comb? Or Shirmp?
I think I'll take the mash potatos. Don't worry, they spelled Filet Minon correctly. haha.

Y is for Yummy!
We found the best place to get horchata and it was SO yummy!! La Michoacana!


Z is for Zebra Fish!!
Ok so one time KR and I were laying out and we both saw this crazy looking fish jump through a wave! But it was so fast, we almost thought we imagined it! We both saw it though, which is a little reassuring, but we both said it looked like it was zebra patterned!

Ah, we had a great honeymoon! We are so grateful! We definitely want to go back some day soon! It was so fun to use our spanish! We honestly barely spoke any english at all in fact!
Ciao Mexico! Hasta Luego!