Love Of Oats

A blog dedicated to balancing a healthy and fun life… with oats!

Honeymoon Recap

Our honeymoon was just dreamy… that’s the only word I can think of to describe it… We were there for 8 days, but honestly time went by so slow, luckily, and it felt like we were there for quite some time… It was so nice to get away and have “no problem, mon” thoughts all day long… Everything was outstanding!  The views of the mountains from our room were simply breathtaking… The food was unlike anything I had ever had before… My favorite place to frequent was the “Cafe de Paris” which was open nearly all day & all night… they served up delicious sweets & pastries alongside the very famous Blue Mountain coffee… I think I averaged 2 trips to the shop each day!  All in all, it was an absolutely memorable vacation, not to mention honeymoon… the weather was perfect from the moment we got up until about 2-3pm and it rained for a few hours and then was perfect again… we actually looked forward to the 2 hour rain break each day because it gave us a chance to get out of the sun and rest up a bit!  We spent most of our day either in the ocean, beach, or pool and then our late afternoon was spent napping… our nights were filled with fantastic dinners and then hanging out either at the Piano Bar (I was AWE at the piano player, considering I had played for a number of years) or listening to the featured singer or band of the day (who were also phenomenal)… We didn’t really head out of the resort too much, but did leave once to go on a zipline tour through a jungle (14 stories up, 1034 feet across) which was SO amazing!  At the resort, we snorkeled (the reef was AMAZING) and went on a kayak (I am SO not good at it though)… I must add that last year when we were in Jamaica we did the ever famous Dunn’s River Falls, horseback riding, and also took a taxi into the town of Ochos Rios which was really interesting and neat… I think our favorite part of our honeymoon (besides the relaxing) was learning about other people from around the world:  both the locals and the other honeymooners that we befriended!

Anyway, so without further adieu, here are some quick highlight pictures from our trip… there are so many more to feature (I took 500 pictures!), but I randomly selected a bunch just because I couldn’t decide!

Coconut Water

The Best Pumpkin Soup I Have Ever Eaten

The Treats At Cafe De Paris

My “Oatmeal” Concoction @ Breakfast

I Really Wanted To Bring Home This Coffee (Not To Mention The Jamaican Coffee) Set!

The Beautiful Beach

Corn Festivals – My New Favorite

The View From Outside Our Door

I had to feature (and of course eat – several times) Jerk Chicken with Rice & Beans…

I’ll post more later, but wanted to get a quick post out :)

Mini Wedding Recap!

Hi Everyone!!!!!!!!  Bill and I are back from both our wedding & honeymoon… Our trip to both Cape May & Jamaica was amazing – tons of fun… We met a lot of really great and interesting people from all over the world, including fellow honeymooners as well as locals… It was such a great time and we had a difficult time accepting that we were returning back to reality!

I just want to say thank you SO much to everyone who commented on the blog while I was away.  It was so nice to log in and read all of your super sweet comments regarding the wedding!  Although I haven’t gotten my professional pictures back yet, I have had an influx of pictures sent to me via email from friends and family so I wanted to share them with you all so you could catch a glimpse of my perfect wedding day :)   The weather was absolutely gorgeous the day we got married, which was unexpected since we had really bad thunderstorms the day before… Luckily, we managed to squeeze in our beach rehearsal while it was spitting out!  We are truly blessed to have such amazingly generous and loving parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and friends… All in all, I could really go on for hours about how perfect everything was and how much fun I had celebrating with my friends and family, but I’ll spare you and just show you the pictures!

Some “highlight” pictures from our honeymoon will be posted later today!