What A Month!

What a month it has been. I am finally back in San Jose after four weeks of wedding planning, horse races, the Big Day, and a honeymoon! Jake and I had the most amazing time at the wedding and it meant so much to us that people traveled from near and far to be part of this huge day in our lives.

I have a few photos below, but I will try to add more as I get them.

Opening Day at Del Mar was on Wednesday, July 22... Here are my great friends from high school: Megan, Kelly, and Rachel. At this point, all of the wedding planning was done so I was able to have a good time. Jake and his sister and brother met up with us later. Thanks to Kelly for the picture!

I only have the two photos from the wedding (I have to steal from Kelly again until I get my own photos back)
Here is Rachel, Emily, me, and Kelly looking very sweaty from all our dancing!! So fun!
High School Reunion photo at the reception. It was so much fun seeing all the girls.

The honeymoon was great! I was in desperate need of sleep (I couldn't sleep the night before the wedding because of nerves and just being anxious. The night of the wedding I couldn't really sleep because I was still hyped up and excited about the whole day. So, I really needed the honeymoon. Luckily, I was able to sleep on the plane to Ft. Lauderdale and then got a close to twelve hours that first night.

We woke up in Ft. Lauderdale very refreshed... until we walked outside. The humidity! Yikes, we weren't used to it. We walked down the block for breakfast and were sweating by the time we got there! After breakfast we packed up and got a shuttle to Miami (probably just get a direct flight to Miami next time...what were we thinking?!?!)

We loved having a balcony on the cruise ship! Having breakfast on the balcony each morning and sitting there when we needed to get away from the crowds was great!

In the pictures above we are on our balcony. We are still in Miami just about to take off for Grand Turk.
Grand Turk after a day in the sun. Jake needed sunglasses so he bought some cheap ones in a shop when he was renting snorkle gear... ten minutes later he found Prada sunglasses in the water while snorkeling.
We loved The Atlantis!! We want to go back for a vacation with our friends (any takers?) The hotel was huge. We went on the waterslides and rapid/lazy river ride. There was also an amazing aquarium with crazy sea animals. Just a great final day!