After Wedding/Honeymoon...

Our hotel room at Vegas at the Encore!(Thanks De La)..It was a beautiful and large room and that was our attempt to have a romantic dinner, we had subway..yummy! At least we had candles and heart cups right(Thanks Amanda and Matt). 

Hawaii-Oahu

First Stop-"Dole Plantation" 

What an adventure that was, apparently we came at a bad time though because most of the pineapples growing were very small so not super cool to look at. We did hop on the pineapple express for a lovely tour of the thousands of pineapples, but our favorite was the samples of pineapple and the ice cream! We only got one ice cream between the two of us and we might regret that for the rest of our lives, it was so amazingly delicious. 

 The beach behind our hotel in a little lagoon type of thing. It was beautiful hard to tell in this picture but to be honest I don't even remember getting a picture in the day because we were always out and about having too much fun.

Hanauma Bay-A little snorkeling! My first time ever so I had lots of fun. The first picture on the left was taken while waiting to watch the most awesome educational video ever, not really! The picture was taken by our newly found friends from Miami and so of course we talked a little bit about the Big Three...then us in our ever so cute snorkeling gear, we saw tons of fish and lots of big whales aka bigger people swimming! no offense to bigger people...We had fun, werent there too long because the water was freezing and Brittany scraped her knee on some coral...but we were there long enough to see tourists from Japan, a man in a big white speedo that looked like a diaper taking a video of his girlfriend in her swimsuit thong bikini thingy just walking down the beach and every person that saw them was just like us, asking to ourselves, "is this really happening?"

Matsumoto's at North Shore-The World's Best Shaved Ice!! Its in a ghetto grocery store so you know that is factual!

 The Polynesian Culture Center or as Brenda would say the The Polynesianal Center...It was a blast! This was my favorite thing in Hawaii..It was just like being back out on the mission with all the huts and half naked people. Oh I miss Vanuatu! No but we got to dance at the Fiji show because we were on our honeymoon and wow were we bad and embarrassed but ask Brittany next time you see her and she will gladly repeat her new fijian moves for you!

 Pearl Harbor was probably Brittany's favorite part of the trip! So if you ever look at all of our honeymoon pics, I just took pictures of her this day, because I was rather bored. There wasn't much to look at, though it is sad to think how many people died so quickly.

Christmas in Hawaii!!!!!!!!!!! We loved it, we woke up early Christmas morning and went whale watching with the Allisons, I apparently cursed us because Brittany mentioned I wanted to see a turtle and we saw a turtle so I was happy but then we didn't see any whales...OOPS! Not a good way to start out as a bro or son in law haha.. It was lots of fun though, we saw my turtle, we saw two different kinds of dolphins, and even got to snorkel with some of the dolphins. No touching though :( Then everyone took a nap but me because I enjoyed watching LeBron dominate the lakers, then we went and visited my good friends Mr. and Mrs. Clause, apparently Hawaii is where they go when they are done with all the present delivering on Christmas eve/morning of Christmas!

We loved our honeymoon and we did lots as you can tell and this isn't the half of it. We went to some fun restaurants to eat, we went shopping in malls that led to hours of walking around in search of who knows what, but we did leave with some see's candy.yummy it took us over an hour to find but it was worth it! Then we shopped in the outside markets, we missed our flight because we couldnt find the car rental place even though we knew exactly where it was. Let me explain...so our car rental place was right next to the freeway but away from the airport and all the other car rental places. so we put it in our iphone to find where it was and it said take the onramp to the freeway and it will  be on your right, so we did that and guess what? The onramp surprisingly took us ON the freeway and yes the car rental place was on our right but not on the freeway but on the road parallel to it. so we took the next exit, turned around, and tried again. This time we found another onramp thinking ok it must be on this one, but nope same song second verse. so Brittany said lets just call them and ask them and I being the MAN said no we have plenty of time and we will find it. Guess what as we went for our third attempt we saw the Thrifty shuttle so we thought we would just follow them back..one problem, they were empty so they weren't going back but in our attempt to follow them back we got lost and got lucky and found thrifty. so we returned our car hopped on the shuttle with about 45 minutes left before our flight. The next problem was the only other couple on the shuttle was going to the other side of the airport and the driver took them there first, took forever, and we missed check in by about 4 or 5 minutes. So we called to get a new flight because the lady at the airport was like I can't book a new flight for you but there is open seats on the next flight. so we called and the lady on the phone said there was no open seats and the lady was lying and I kept talking to the two ladies back and forth being the middle man but nope we didnt get a flight until the next day and then we had to stay a night in portland and then fly back to vegas. To make a long story short, the Allisons rescued us, we spent an extra day in Hawaii, the Ekmans rescued us in Portland, and then we finally got back to Vegas!!!! We had fun and weren't took excited about going back to school but eventually did...next post I will try to catch you up with more of moving in and how things are now and our open house in moses lake....but for now...I need to do homework and study for two tests!! Yay..