Honeymoon: Day 1

After a year and a half of planning the wedding is over and the honeymoon can begin! We left for the Birmingham airport via cab at 4:45 a.m. and took off for Miami. Once in Miami we had a two hour layover and spent the time trying not to fall asleep and people watching. About 30 minutes before take off to San Juan an eight grade class showed up at our gate, unfortunately they were all getting on our plane. Two and a half very loud and aggravating hours later, we landed in San Juan, retrieved our bags and hopped in a cab to the La Concha Marriott Renaissance Resort.

It never hurts to play up a good thing, so we let everyone know we were on our honeymoon. This little tactic landed us with free champagne and an upgraded room. Fabulous! Our first stop after getting moved in we headed down to the pool, had lunch a few medella's (local beer), and enjoyed the sunshine. We took a short walk on the beach, but discovered the water was a bit too cold, so retreated to our room.

We tried to sample the hotels Italian restaurant, Voga, but they are closed on Mondays, so we started off down the beach. We found a cute Italian restaurant a block down. I have decided to try as many mojitos as I can while we are here, the first one at Di Parma was pretty delicious. I had the linguini al pesto with jumbo shrimp and Jason had the goat cheese pizza with spinach, bacon and tomatoes. Bellies full we headed back to the hotel to crash and get ready for another early morning.