Couple of honeymooners

I know I've already blogged our honeymoon (if you missed it, part one, two, three, four, five, and six. Yes there are six parts. It was an awesome honeymoon okay?), but on our cruise to Alaska we met this adorable older couple and they took some pictures of us celebrating our recent marriage on our fancy formal night and they just sent them to us! Of course I was like "OMG YES PICTURESSSS, LET ME BLOG THIS!".

During our little dance, I couldn't tell you the song. I was strung out on a dramamine and wine combo (jk...maybe). Also high on life.

They sang us a honeymooners song and put napkins on our heads. And made us smooch in front of the whole dinning room. It was a tad embarrassing, but pretty hilarious. PDA y'all.

Fancy hat huh? It makes me think of that boob head guy in Little Nicky, you know what I'm talking about. I think we're being instructed to blow out the candles in our desserts, because that's what you do on your honeymoon.

Done and done. Hope we wished for something good!

This makes me want to go on a second honeymoon immediately. Or any sort of vacation actually. Traveling with Brendon is pretty much the best thing ever. I want to travel around the world for life, can we have that job please? 

Also, I wouldn't mind being that tan again. It's crazy to think that this ghost pale skin of mine was once capable of being a normal shade of human. I'm sure my body is thanking me for stepping away from the tanning booths and upping my chances of avoiding skin cancer, but I thoroughly enjoyed being tan. Oh well, pale is cool these days right?

Honeymoon part 6 - Ketchikan, Alaska and heading home

Ketchikan was our last stop in Alaska. We just took it easy and explored the town, did a little last minute souvenir shopping, and had some seriously overpriced crab, but how are you going to go to Alaska and not have crab!

This fire boat was welcoming us into the town with a little water show!

Cute little town! Much warmer than Skagway and Juneau.

We ran into Sarah Palin.

 Neat little tunnel.

Brendon and his bear.

That mountain behind the city was sooo big and so white! I wanted to ski down it. Bad.

Totem pole!

I loved all the moss growing on those rocks, such a pretty green! That water looked so fresh, but so cold!

The stream ran though and under these cute shops and then out into the ocean.

 We rode this little... thing? up to a lodge where there was a great view of the city and the surrounding area.

I found Dumbledore! This was a Christmas Shop (there were actually a bunch of Christmas Shops, and Russian shops. Russia is just a hop, skip, and a jump away I guess), they had tons of Santa figures everywhere, and there was this one sitting on a chair that turned out to be a real guy posing as Santa. It scared me half to death when he moved. We should have gotten a picture but I was pretty freaked out.

I love those clouds!

That is the Disney ship that had been following us around. We were both in port that day so we saw tons of people decked out in Disney. Brendon kept saying things like, "Mickey sucks!" while we were walking behind them. We went over to their ship though, and it was pretty impressive. Even the sides of the ship were decked out in Disney. Can't imagine how expensive it would be though!

Off to mainland America, bittersweet and beautiful.

Our last towel animal, a monkey!

These guys and the guys below were our sweet table mates at our dinners. Canadians are awesome!

More Canadian friends!

 Our wonderful dinner family. We really lucked out with our table, everyone was so fun and our servers were the bomb. And yes Brendon is wearing a Hawaiian shirt. In Alaska.

 We came back to the states in Seattle. It was just as soggy as we imagined.

On our drive to the airport we went past Starbucks' headquarters! Now that I'm employed by a rival coffee company, they're a no-no.

After we arrived at the airport, like 6 hours early, we did a LOT of waiting. I got my hands wiped down for explosive residue going through security. I also had to go through that body scanner thing on the way to Vancouver, apparently I look like a threat. We had a TERRIBLE trip back to San Antonio. Worst flight experience of my entire life. We had a connecting flight in Denver, but on the way there we hit some wind shears, whatever those are. It was so bumpy and shaky and terrible. They tried landing on the strip 3 times (like descending and then dramatically pulling up and turning as we reached the airstrip) before giving up and flying to Colorado Springs to refuel. I felt like I was going to pass out and throw up at the same time, like shaking and sweating head in between my legs the entire time. In the row next to us were these poor girls from China who were all puking their lives up in their barf bags. It was truly terrible. Eventually we made it to Denver, only to find that our flight to San Antonio had left 15 minutes earlier without half their passengers (who were all on our plane). And of course it was like midnight so there were no flights until the next day. So we were stuck in Denver for a night with no luggage, and since missing our flight was caused by weather, we had to pay for our hotel. Such a mess. Luckily the hotel we stayed at was very nice and had toothbrushes, deodorant, etc. We were not looking cute the next day, but eventually we made it to San Antonio. And we are never flying Continental/United again.

But other than the delays on the flights leaving and coming home, the honeymoon was absolutely phenomenal. Looking through the pictures makes me miss it all so much! We had so much fun, I want to travel with Brendon forever. Can't wait to go on our second honeymoon. We're thinking Austria or Iceland. Haha, dream big right? Thank you all for enduring 6 posts and countless pictures of our trip. Sick of seeing mountains and our faces?

Also, I would like to welcome July into our lives with open arms. June was terrible to us and I have never been more happy to see a month go. We are very optimistic about the coming month, hopefully our finances will get back into order now that I'm working again and I will not catch some ridiculous sickness. Be good to us July. We need it.

Honeymoon part 5 - Skagway, Alaska

Okay, first off I want to apologize for the extreme amount of photos in this post. Out of all of our wonderful days on our honeymoon, this one was my favorite. We took over 400 pictures, and I'd say about 300 of them were mountains. Lucky for you guys, I edited it down to about 35.

Our second stop in Alaska was Skagway, a tiny little town that goes from 600 residents in the winter to over 2,000 in the summer. Skagway was such a neat place. So quaint and cute and surrounded by the most beautiful mountains I had ever seen.

 This was what we saw off our balcony when we woke up. That's a train track right next to the ship! And all the paintings on the rocks are captains and ships that have sailed to Skagway, they went back to the 60's!

Our train awaiting us! We took a train ride up to the White Pass summit to the US/Canadian border. We went from sea level to 2,865 feet! I was so excited for this. I LOVE trains. And they have been making this trip since the late 1800's! They even have and occasionally use some of the old passenger cars.

 VERY excited!

Check this dude out! Look at that beard! So authentic.

 We followed this stream up the mountains, although it was eventually thousands of feet below us.

 The scenery at sea level is verrrry different from up top. It's such a dramatic change, just wait for it.

 Already pretty high, that body of water way back there is where our ship was docked and where we started.

Getting snowier! Check out that cloud action, so thick.

The coolest thing about the train ride is that you could stand in between the cars! It was amazing, I spent most of the trip up out there.

We weaved around mountains, that track on the opposite mountain is where we're headed!

Chugging along! I was pretending we were on the Hogwarts express.

 Giddy about mountains!

Up in the clouds!

 We went through two tunnels, it was crazy dark. So surreal that you're going through a mountain, and even crazier that they made this track in 1898!

Even farther away from the water.

Although they stopped using this bridge in the 60's, it is still amazing! It's considered an engineering wonder of the world up with the Eiffel Tower.

Lots of snow, so different from where we started. And how cute is that train?

 At the top, the snow was piled up almost as high as the train.

 At the border. Look at the cabin!

 Frozen lake on the summit of the mountain, so neat. It was the prettiest shade of blue. Apparently it's extremely deep.

 Frozen face! That air felt wonderful though, if I could pick a "last breath" it would be air from these mountains.

To head back, the engine took the track next to ours to move to the back of the train and we headed down the mountain. The seats on the train were on hinges so you just flipped them over to face the other way. Geniuses.

Although it was nice out on the way up, some of the cloud cover burned off so we had an even better view of the mountains on the way down.

We really lucked out with weather, supposedly it had been raining nonstop and the day we were there was one of the first sunny days in weeks. They said that normally you can't see the "teeth" on the top of this mountain. I was so glad we were able to, it was breathtaking.

I ended up dozing off on the way down, it was so relaxing. Not pictured on this wonderful train ride are the moose and bear we saw! We tried to get pictures but we were moving too fast. They were both just standing around (separately of course) watching the train go by. Alaska is wild!

Brendon is trying to perfect the bear look and that lady is judging me.

 Such a cute little town! Skagway, like a lot of towns in Alaska, was originally a gold rush town. I loved the old west vibe. Plus look at the backdrop! AHH! We're moving to Skagway when we retire.

Such a cute pose.

Okay. The views on the ship as we were leaving Skagway were so beautiful, it hurt my heart. No lie, I felt like I might cry constantly. Why do I not live in such a beautiful place?! Views like this were on both sides of our ship.

 It was unbelievably windy at the front of the ship. You couldn't look into it and keep your eyes open!

My hair thoroughly enjoyed the wind.

 That's a town beneath those mountains. I need to live there.

 They're hard to make out, but those things on the rocks are sea lions! Hundreds of them. You could hear them barking. I'm telling you, Alaska is nature at it's finest.

That snakey thing in the middle is a glacier (remember how I love those)! AHHHH. I can't get over it.

 Oh you know, just me dying of happiness. If you ever go on an Alaskan cruise, upgrade to a balcony. It is beyond worth the extra money. We were seeing all this beauty right outside our room. And the sun was so warm we ended up losing the jackets. Also things we didn't get to take a picture of, whales and dolphins everywhere. Swimming next to the ship, blowing water out of their blow holes. So much goodness.

 Evidence of the warmth. Just chillin' out barefoot looking at endless snowy mountain goodness.

 Lighthouse! Although it's electronically controlled now, one man used to live there alone for months at a time. Probably incredibly lonely, but I bet it was an experience of a lifetime.

 Our swan!

Such a wonderful ending to a wonderful day, we were graced with the prettiest sunset. It doesn't get any better than this. I wish I could relive this day over and over! And I've got to give credit where credit is due, Brendon took this picture, and a ton of other awesome ones, with our dslr on manual! We're still very much photography beginners, but he's got some skill.

The last honeymoon post will be coming soon! I know I know, aren't 5 honeymoon posts enough? (No, of course not!)

Yesterday was our two month anniversary! We celebrated by seeing Transformers, taking a looong nap, getting a new video game, and playing it far too late into the night. Are we not the coolest husband and wife team ever? I think so.