We're back

For those of you still checking the blog, we are back from the honeymoon. Well, we have been back for awhile I guess. Our 10 days in paradise came to an end 9-10-09 when we arrive back in Minneapolis to a cold wet airport. We made it to our car and headed home.

Friday was back to reality at work and Sunday Randy and I opened gifts. The past week or so we have been going thru wedding stuff that needs to be returned to Hobby Lobby, Wal-Mart and where ever else. We got our thank you cards ordered and are working to get those out to everyone soon.

But the HONEYMOON…

It was AWESOME! We left early, early Monday morning out of Minneapolis. We used Randy’s frequent flyer miles so were a little limited on where we could fly in and out of and when and what days we could actually fly. But early Monday morning put us in Cancun around 2:30 and we were to the hotel and in our suits by the pool by 4:00. The weather was hot and humid. Something we have been missing all summer at home! We stayed at an all inclusive resort so all of our food and drinks, alcoholic or non-alcoholic included. When in Rome…so we started in with the rest of the drunk idiots at the pool.

Not only did the resort have 7 different restaurants to pick from, but you could pick off of a room service menu 24 hours a day…all included. We hit that up more that we probably should have and decided by the end of the trip and we really shouldn’t have been eating for 4 at each meal! But the food was amazing…everywhere we went. Not only was it good, but it was all about presentation. Everything came out on a fancy plate decorated with swirls and stick things coming out the top of whatever you were eating. One place we ended up going to twice, had the best steak ever…in Mexico. Weird!

We laid by the pool most every day. Did some snorkeling, kayaking, and walking on the beach. We were also pretty close to 6th Ave, which was a huge market for anything and everything you either may have forgotten or wanted to buy while in Mexico. So we did some shopping and came back with t-shirts, picture fames, and the normal tourist crap!

One night we went to a fire show at the Blue Parrot. The fire show was at a hotel down the beach and the stage and performance was right on the beach. It was really good. The show didn’t start until about midnight, to make sure enough people had paid to get in, and the darker it gets, obviously the better the show looks. So they got started swirling fire around on everything imaginable and the more they performed, the bigger the crowd got. People walking along the beach would stop and watch and pretty soon, there wasn’t even a good place to stand to see the show.

Another evening we headed to a place called Coco Bongo. This place was a dance club disco, but had a large stage about 40’ in the air that performers lip synced to popular songs including Elvis, Queen, and of course Michael Jackson. There were backup dancers and a large video board behind the dancers playing a music video or concert clips that everyone danced and sang to. It the middle of it all were 2 sunk down bars – oh ya all you could drink after you paid the $50 cover – with people dancing on it and around it. The place was crazy. Not like your usual club where there are places to sit and then a designated dance floor. People just danced around in their spots and danced to whatever was being performed on stage. There was only 1 song that I had never heard and that was after the Michael Jackson performance, so we figured that was when the tourists should leave…and it was 3 am.

We met a bunch of different people from Canada, New York, Miami and England. People from everywhere seem to vacation in Mexico. It was interesting to talk to people that had been here before, others that were also on their honeymoon, and still others that found this place on trip advisor and were just on vacation.

All in all it was wonderful and we were not ready to come back to reality. Now that we are back in the swing of things, I plan to get some pictures uploaded online at http://thedeckerschillingwedding.shutterly.com/ and get something written up about the wedding day and posted on the blog. Also don’t forget to upload any pictures you may have taken at the wedding. Follow the link and either enter your Shutterfly login, create one, or use the one we set up. Login: schilling@hotmail.com, and the password is august29. My photographer is out, actually getting married herself this weekend, but she hopes to have photos uploaded soon. You can check her blog at http://lifeinpicturephoto.blogspot.com/ to get the first look at some wedding pictures!

Missing Veil

Please everyone think long and hard and check your trunks, my veil is no where to be found!

If anyone remembers seeing someone grab it off the head table or knows where it is, please leave me a comment or sent me an email at marydecker1@hotmail.com

I left it on the head table during the dance and when I went to grab it at the end of the dance all of the table cloths and skirting was pulled off and my veil was gone. I just assumed that someone had grabbed it and figured I would worry about it later. Well, I should have worried about it that night, because we can't find it anywhere.

Thanks everybody!!!