Friday, June 28, 2013

Honeymooning in the Dominican Republic

When Colby & I were trying to figure out where we were going to go for our honeymoon, we were more focused on the history behind the term "honeymoon" than we were on where we actually going to go on it.  St. Lucia, Hawaii, Dominican, Ireland, Greece.  All the thoughts came to mind.  The place I most wanted to go was Scottland.  I told Colby, "Dude, we will be the Scott's.  Let's go to the land of the them!"  He finally convinced me that it was completely out of the price range and that we could save up for it, maybe for our 5 year anniversary.  

In our wedding program we did fun facts about Colby & I.  One of them said, "Colby has never flown before.  Courtney plans on filling up his passport".  And I plan on sticking to that.  When Colby got on that plane at RDU, he was secretly excited.  He didn't want me to see his little kid self getting jacked up about getting on a plane.  But I saw it.  He asked a million questions and he just couldn't believe how big planes were.  When we actually got on the plane, Colby kept saying (honestly, 10-15 times), "I can't image the power/torque this thing has/takes."  He was so happy.  I was so happy.

We landed in Punta Cana airport -- aka a giant tiki hut.  It was quite different from RDU and ATL airports.  We got off, found our resort van and headed on.

The resort was gorgeous, giant and modern.  Lots of options to eat and the most gorgeous plot of sand and water to lay and view.  We literally laid out ALL day for days.  We did go snorkeling and riding in a speed boat one day.  But it was so nice, to relax and be lazy with my favorite person in the world & feel no guilt.  It was fantastic. 

















Seriously, fantastic.  I could not have asked for a more gorgeous place to spend the first week of marriage.  We are so thankful to have the chance experience another part of the world.  A very luxurious but peaceful part of the world.  

Plus, we got Colby's first stamp in his passport!!  Success.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

New Life, New Blog.

Hey ya'll!  I have migrated from Raleigh Perk, my little segment in the blogosphere where I documented my journey through college.  I fell completely in love with Raleigh, North Carolina and I wanted to remember everything I got involved with while at student at NC State, so I created my blog.  And for the most part, I kept up with it. 

Well life has changed a bit since I became an official alumni of NC State.


I said a hilarious but sweet goodbye to my incredible roommate of 4 years.  I packed up my life as a lively, involved college student into several boxes and shoved them into my dad's truck and the trunk of my car.  I moved home with my parents while I tried to finish planning my southern wedding that was happening in two weeks!  I slowly moved from my parent's house to my new house.  And biggest news of all...  I married this handsome man.

Photo by Lauren Mack

We are one month into this ridiculously sweet adventure and I am completely in love with marriage.  The more I dig into scripture, the more I understand this covenant.  I have a whole blog post on this I've got brewing in my mind I want to share with ya'll soon!  God created Colby for me and me for him.   My goodness, this still gives me cold chills.  I plan on sharing in our journey through life as one flesh with this blog.  I also plan on sharing all the details of the wedding with ya'll!  I wanted to do that with Raleigh Perk but I didn't want to give any details away before the big day.  So when I get my pictures back on CD from my photographer, I will share, with pictures, the precious details of the best day ever.  Welcome to Shoals Perk.  We're gonna have some fun.


Side note: my fabulous new blog was created by Tyler Lucas.  If you have any request for blog design you can contact him at lucasgraphics[at]iCloud[dot]com