Honeymoom Blog...

Hi All - Here are a few tidbits of the honeymoon thus far....
 
Day One:  Red Eye Adventure
 
We hopped on 1st class red eye to Grand Cayman, connecting through Charolette.  For my b-day, Jeff gave me US Airways Club passes, so we spent the 3-hour layover resting in style.  No other way to go, I must say.  Before reaching Charolette, I watched "Gigi" on the plane.  What good memories it brought back.  I could "hear" Boo on the "it's a bore" song and many others.  :)  Wonderful time. 
When we reached the island, there was a band playing Neil Diamond to great us.  We made it through customs with no problem and then checked in.  The room is AMAZING.  We have a pool and ocean view and lovely patio.  It is also nicely air conditioned, which helps in this humid weather.  The sea is lovely.  Crystal blue.  It's also not very crowded, nice and quiet and relaxing.  We spent the afternoon walking up and down the beach while I tried to psyche myself up to get in the water.  We also hit the concierge (sic) to make various reservations for land and sea excursions. 
 
When we made it back to the room, a bellman knocked on our door with a bottle of champagne, a lovely note to "Mr. and Mrs. Krobot" and strawberries.  It was wonderful.  We managed to hold off on the champagne and are about to pop it now...a day later.  :)  We went to a casual dinner at a local sportsbar and watched the D-backs beat the Cardinals. 
 
Day Two:  The Krobots 1; the Sea 0
 
Today, Wed., we walked up/down the beach.  Before doing so I asked if we should put our rings in the safe and, since Jeff was wearing his, I decided I'd wear mine, too.  After all, it's warm and humid and my fingers look like marshmellows, so I figured we were good.  While we were walking back to our hotel, we decided to go for a dip.  About 5 minutes in, I asked Jeff to make sure his ring was on...he said "yes" and then, "no."  It was gone.  I figured it was gone forever and tried to tell myself it was ok, b/c Ashley said he has had to buy a few for Paul.  Like the rain at the wedding, I kept saying it would be ok.  Jeff told me to stay put and he went to rent snorkle/mask/fins.  As he came back, a tour group came through with their snorkles.  Great, I'm thinking, they will find the ring and there will be no way to convince them it's ours.  Jeff announced to the group to keep an eye out for the ring as he contiued to search, at which point, I also left to get a mask.  Some time passed, years it seemed.  In reality, probably 45 minutes.  While snorkling, I saw a beautiful silver fish swim right by me.  I thought it was a good omen.  At that point I hear "E!!!!" and I looked up and there was Jeff with ring in hand.  He found it in water about 15 feet of water, half burried in the sand.  It was a miracle.  We instantly decided (learned) to keep rings in the safe while we swam.  The remainder of the day was spent celebrating the miracle of finding the ring in the sea.  I'm hesitant to call out the score of us "1" and Sea "0" (given we are snorkling in a few days on a reef), but am so grateful Jeff was determined to find the ring. 
 
After securing the rings safely in the room's safe, we snorkled some more.  We found a graceful stingray with a little fish in tow.  We followed it for some time, alerting swimmers off/on of its presence.  It was beautiful...another good sign, I'm sure!
 
Now, we rest and catch up on social networking and will enjoy our champagne delivered to the room yesterday.  Tonight, a nice dinner and out for fun.  We are having a blast and meeting nice couples who both travel here frequently.  It's a beautiful place. 
 
More to come in the next few days...we're looking forward to swiming with the sting rays in sting ray city and snorkling on the reef.  We also plan to kyak tomorrow and more snorkling.  Who knew what fun it would be!  No shark sightings yet and I'm actually comfortable in the water, especially with the "good fortune" of finding the ring...it must have been that good luck from the rain on our wedding day?

Yay!!!
 
Miss you all, love you,
Erica