Some Wedding and Honeymoon Highlights

Ah, well, first there was the ceremony:

Dad walking me down the aisle (made having a traditional wedding so worth it)


"You may now kiss your bride!"


First debut as Mr. and Mrs. Neeley


And we're off!


Great reception - typical me stealing Cliff's food (he got me back, though).


Lots of dancing (SO MUCH FUN!)


Cutting our beautiful cake (too bad this isn't a shot of us shoving it in each other's faces)


Everyone showering us with love (and bubbles) as we left (and got in the Rolls Royce limo headed for Union Station)




And then there was the honeymoon in St. Lucia, West Indies:

An attempt at showing you a 180 view from our Honeymoon Suite patio (that's the Caribbean sea) that we were greeted and surprised with Monday morning.


Our made-to-order room service we had just about every morning out on the patio


Lounging on the beach with tasty beverages


The swim-up bar in the middle of one of their five pools


Relaxing, at it's best


Us on the Spirit of Carnival catamaran for the "Adventure Sea Cruise" (with the Pitons in the background)


The sea cruise took us down the west coast to Soufriere, a fishiving village at the base of the Pitons


The view from the villa we had lunch at


Once on land, we went to the Sulphur Springs drive-in Volcano...


and the botanical gardens (that's a bird-of-paradise - like, from Superman)...


and the diamond waterfall.



After spending the late morning in Soufriere, we got back on the boat and headed back north to go snorkeling (we snorkled twice in St. Lucia!)





We even sailed alongside the ship that was used as the Black Pearl in "Pirates" - cool, huh?


We loved sailing on the catamaran so much, we got back on the next night for the Evening Sunset Cruise (that's where the picture from the last entry was taken)


Besides spending time on the catamaran, on the beach, and at the pool, we even took out the hobiecat, water-trike, and a jet-ski.



And you know us, if there's a mountain near by, we're going to hike it - so we just walked down the beach to the end of the islet that our resort was on to Pigeon Island National Park


We hiked both peaks, one which housed a fort and the other, higher point, was used as a Signal Peak


Signal Peak had a great view of our resort


It was so sad to say goodbye to room 2409...


We spent our last morning playing a rousing game of Scrabble (I swear I had every vowel in the bag)


And took off that afternoon headed back to the US (that's an aerial view of the islet)...





I miss this:



But it's nice to be back. More on "being back" later.


p.s. the official wedding pictures by Zach and Jody are up - if you'd like to see them and don't already have the information you need to see them, let me know!