Back to Reality

We're back now! The wedding was great. Everyone in our families helped out so much! The biggest near disaster was Eli's car breaking down right before the reception and we thought our parents were going to have to drop us off at the hotel for our wedding night. LAME!! Luckily though, his mom was able to get it fixed and we got to drive off into the sunset, stuffing our faces with the sandwiches from the reception that we didn't get to eat there. Mexico was amazing. The ocean was so blue and beautiful. We had so much fun just relaxing and enjoying actually being around each other for days at a time. It was strange to not have to leave each other at midnight, but wonderful. We laughed so much there. We're both really good at making the other laugh. One day we were talking about what kind of animal we'd like to be and Eli said the funniest thing, at least it made me laugh a lot. He said, "I'd be a shark, it would be awesome. Except, I don't like seafood." Cabo is beautiful. Some of my favorite memories are Eli participating in a Mexican Hat Dance during a fiesta to win me a bracelet. Everyone had to take a shot of tequila, but they let him take a shot of sprite. I also loved when we went to this amazing restaurant called Tropicana's. We had been drinking coke at every meal because we didn't want to drink their water. I was sick of drinking coke though, so I asked the waiter if they had cherry coke, he said, "si! Si!" and came back with a glass of ice with two cherries in it and a can of coke. That's Mexican cherry coke for you. Eli played a few games of beach volleyball with other guests of the resort. He had a lot of fun doing it and even scored the winning point one time. He would come back covered in sand from all the dives he made to save the ball. I think my favorite things we did there was we would walk along the beach at night or just sit out in a beach chair and talk. It's so soothing to hear the waves. I'd like to live by an ocean one day. We had so much fun. It was hard to leave, but Eli was so ready to come home and have a big American cheeseburger, which he did in the Phoenix airport when we ran into Laura and ate dinner with her and her siblings-in-law at the Chili's there. Our trip to Missouri was great too. We got to do more relaxing, with the added bonus of drinking all the water we want without paying for it. Our reception there was really pretty too. We had a lot of fun going to the church stuff. We loved the square in Independence where they have a taffy shop and a soda fountain. Eli also had his 23rd birthday when we were in Missouri. We just put candles on our leftover wedding cake and sang to him. He's such an old married man now. Although our travels were a lot of fun we were very excited to get back to Provo and start living our real lives in our new apartment. It was fun to open all of our gifts from the Utah reception and start organizing our house the way we want it. Now we're just both working a lot trying to save up money before school starts again. I'll put up pictures soon, I promise!
Cherie