Honeymooning in Antigua

Bright and early Monday morning after the Wedding, we were headed to Antigua for our honeymoon! Our flight left at at 630 a.m. so we had to be at the airport at about 445a.m. We got to Antigua at about 2p.m. Needless to say right after we got off of the airplane, what do you know, rain! We had brought the rain with us. It really only lasted a few minutes but it was a little ironic. A shuttle took us to Sandals, and I have to say it was the bumpiest ride I think I have ever been on!

The resort was really nice! There were 7 restaraunts that we could choose from, 2 served breakfast, 2 or 3 served lunch, and all served dinner. You had everything from an Grill & Pub to Carribean food to a Buffet that served different food each night. I think our favorite place was the pizza joint that they had that was open for lunch. I think by the week was done we had made our way to each 6 of the 7 restaraunts. I hate to say it but we ate very well while on our honeymoon! Now we just have to get those pounds we put on back off.

We chose to stay at Sandal's while on our honeymoon, everything was inclusive, the food and the drinks. We had a choice of whatever we wanted to drink. My favorite came from a recommendation from my cousin Elaina, it was what they call a BBC, Bailey's Banana and Cream. It was very tasty! Mike's favorite became and strawberry and banana daquiri, although he had some wine, beer and other stuff too! Each day we had a stocked bar by our concierge. Needless to say there wasn't always stuff to stock, we did enjoy some Champagne, after all, we were on our honeymoon!

Throughout our stay at Sandal's we took walks on the beach, swam in a couple of the swimming pools, we got in the ocean one day, but like the pool the water was pretty chilly. We were kind of surprised how cold it was. We played some table tennis. Thanks to Nicole, we enjoyed a couples massage on our first morning there, her wedding present to us! Thanks Nicole! We layed out by the pool and the beach, I even came back with a little color which is hard for a redhead! One of our last days we did an excursion where we had a cab driver take us on a tour of Antigua. We went from the Sandal's Resort to St. John even a little further south. We saw Nelson's Dockyard (which had some HUGE sailboats and we had some $8 grilled cheese sandwhiches), Eric Clapton's vacation home, we just barely missed seeing Pierce Brosnan, also we saw some kids playing Cricket so we had the cab driver explain to us the game (still don't totally understand). Another day, we had seen that they offered 20 min photo shoots at sunset for free, the shoots may have been free, but the photos weren't, but we figured this was once in a lifetime and some of the pictures really came out good (see a few of the ones at the top of the page). Not to mention most of the pictures that we were taking were either of me or Mike and of scenery, which don't get me wrong is beautiful! Got to love that pretty clear blue water!

We had a great time on our honeymoon, we got lots of rest and I have to say, it was kind of sad to come home and get back to the real world! I think we could have both stayed a few more days if not another week!