I’m back from Mexico and now I’m a Mrs.! It’s hard to believe that after all the planning and doubts that the wedding went off beautifully. If there were any snaffoos, people hid them from me. I couldn’t have asked for a better wedding and everything went off flawlessly. Everyone looked great and now the only thing I’ve got to do is twiddle my thumbs for 8 weeks until the photographer gets us our photos. Yes, it really does take them 8 weeks before they will be able to get our photos back to us.
We had a fabulous honeymoon. We boarded the plane bright and early on Sunday morning and landed in PVR (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico) without any issues. The smallest problem we hit was that we got nailed at the airport by someone trying to sell us a timeshare. Uh oh. Luckily we managed to eventually get away from him and take the shuttle (a taxi) to the hotel.
The hotel was the best! Upon arrival they served us some cooling fruit drinks. The checkout process was us sitting on the couch, sipping our drinks, and the guy coming to us to say “are you ready to go up to your suite?” The hotel itself is totally gorgeous. It caters to tourist (both from the states and Mexico) so it’s got top notch everything!
Our honeymoon package was for an all inclusive resort so all of our food and alcohol was covered. We took advantage of this and ate 4 meals (on average) a day! We had to get our moneys worth, so to speak, so we had to eat $360 worth of food and beverages. We drank so many drinks and ordered a ton of room service. With every room service order we ordered a bottle of liquor. We only found this out on Thursday but, after finding out that it was comp’ed to the room, we kept ordering bottles of alcohol. We didn’t mange to finish a bottle but sure had a good time trying!
The rooms had a Jacuzzi hot tub and that is the best thing to relax in right before you go to bed. Your muscles are totally put at ease when you sit in it for half an hour before bed. I highly recommend it ^_^
The weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed 90 degree weather everyday. Both Ming and I ended up getting a really dark tan, not that we’re complaining! ^_^
There were 2 peacocks roaming on the grounds of the hotel. One was an albino and one was a gorgeous blue and green one. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get any pictures of the blue and green one. We also saw a huge green lizard/iguana on the grounds of the resort also. Everything there was so vivid in color – except the albino peacock of course.
We went into the downtown area of Puerto Vallarta for all of 2 hours before heading back. It was too much of a city for us and we wanted something a bit more remote and less dirty and touristy. We went to downtown to buy some Tequipal (Tequila cream) and then bee-lined it back for the hotel.
The food was completely amazing at the resort. I found out what real chalupas and gorditas are – not a thing like the Taco Bell ones! They were so tasty that I believe I ordered one each day. ^_^ We ate fine dining almost every night and consumed a ton of seafood, lamb, chateau briand, etc. We had some really good food. I could go back again and eat more foie gras … ^_^
Pictures to come soon …
