Catch Up: Honeymoon Edition

Honeymoon....who decided to call it that? I did some research, but none of the results seemed conclusive. My favorite answers were: 

1. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary,  to the origin of the word honeymoon, 'the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest.' 
2. Or one found in the Oxford English Dictionary that the word originated to describe love that wanes as the phases of the moon (uh-oh)
3. The term honeymoon originates from the tradition that the in-laws of the couple were required to supply a month's worth of honey wine

So which one is it? Pretty sure it is NOT number three, because we've been married for almost three months and no large shipment of honey wine has been made to apartment A20... 

Anyways the Moon is made of honey so we celebrated that by going to sunny California! We drove there the day after our wedding, my parents were awesome enough to supply us with their car and all sorts of road trip goodies! We got to California late that night, we stayed at the Knott's Berry Farm Resort Hotel.  

The next day, was the day we had been waiting for, Phill's first trip to Disneyland! I have been saving my pennies (literally) for the whole two years Phill was gone to pay for our Disneyland tickets.  And yes I successfully saved up enough coinage to buy both of our tickets! 

Disneyland is such a fun place and it's even more enjoyable when you take someone who as never been, it's like experiencing it for the first time yourself. 

 The next day we went to California Adventures! We visited Cars Land, which looked exactly like Radiator Springs.  We rode Phill's new favorite ride: Toy Story a couple times, rode my favorite ride, The Tower of Terror (Phill was not a fan). And after all that fun we wandered back over to Disneyland, then to Downtown Disney for dinner at my favorite place The Rain Forest Cafe, and then BACK to California Adventures to finish off the night! (got to love hopper passes!) 

My eyes are closed...what can ya do 

getting cozy at the Cozy Cone 

Phill made me go on the Snow White ride...not cool man, not cool. 

At the Lego Store! Prince Phillip made out of legos in the background! 

Paradise Pier

The next day we bounced back and forth between the two parks again and got in most of our favorite rides one more time. We also got to ride the new Car Racer ride in Cars Land (epic) That was probably my favorite part of the day. 

No one knows what is going on with this Mickey/Goofy/Mater/Use up all the extra materials we have hat.

After our Disney Adventure was over we headed for the beach the next day, but didn't swim, because I had gotten sick and was not feeling it. So we walked along the pier and I starred anxiously out into the ocean looking for whales...as a I always do, but have yet to actually see one.  One Day! It was a nice relaxing day after our three days of none stop! 

On our last day we drove down to San Diego and did a session in the temple.  It was a really cool experience.  I was hoping to go to Sea World, but by the time we got out of the temple it was too late. Darn! So we walked around the city a little before making the trip back up to Anaheim. 

Our dive home consisted of a few detours through Phill's mission, I got to meet a few people he had told me about in his letters that was fun. Then came the long drive home, that is always a kicker! 
We had a good time and it was great to get away!