Honeymoon Part One (Not As Scary As It Sounds I Promise)

Now, I have to start out by explaining (or reminding you) that CW did NOT tell me where we were going on our honeymoon. I would wake up in the morning and he would tell me where we were going that day. It was a BLAST! I would highly recommend all couples to do that for their honeymoon. It was so much fun being surprised and wondering where we were going to be going the next day.

Our honeymoon started off when we left the church house. It was a beautiful reception! My mom did such a fantastic job decorating! Everything was perfect! (I'll have to put pictures up from that soon!) When we walked out of the building this was the first thing we saw:

Oh joy. We had "fun" getting in and out of that.

The next morning as we're getting ready to leave, we get into our trashed car and realized that our battery was dead. Ugh, me and my car problems! On my honeymoon. Luckily, we found an older woman who had jumper cables and was able to jump us. We were talking to her for a bit and before she left, she handed us a bag and told us that we could consider that to be her wedding gift to us. We opened it up and it was her jumper cables. She was such a sweet old woman! We were so grateful for all of her help for us.

We headed back to my parents place and got the car cleaned out. We also charged the battery in my car so that we hopefully wouldn't have any more problems! hahaha We said good-bye to the family, got to the car, and headed out on our adventure to:

Albuquerque, New Mexico

I'd never been there before, so I was pretty excited. I knew that we'd only be staying there one night, so we wouldn't get to do too much, but we still had plenty of adventures!

We started off in New Mexico by seeing a sign that said "free petrified rock". So, naturally, we stopped at this little Indian Shop and got our free petrified rock.

After that, we saw a sign for the Painted Desert. Unfortunately, we only had 30 minutes before it closed. So...what did we do? We went in, (naturally) and we stopped at every stop that we could, ran out of the car (leaving it running) took a picture, ran back into the car, and headed to the next stop. It was some of the most fun I'd had!

It was absolutely gorgeous! The colors were amazing. And, I am proud to say that we made it to the end!! Yay! At the very end of it, they had this old rustic car, just sitting out in the middle of nowhere. So, we hopped inside and took pictures in it. :)

After that, we spent the night in New Mexico. But, the next morning we woke up ready for what ever was going to bring us that day! It started out for us with pouring rain and hail! It was so cool! At one point, we decided to stop along the road and kiss in the rain. :) This is us after we kissed in the rain. I don't know if you can see it...but, we have rain drops on our face!

As we were driving along New Mexico, heading to our next destination, we saw a sign for "Las Vegas". So, he immediately took the exit to see where it would take us!

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All right, so it wasn't the real Las Vegas. :) But, it was still a lot of fun! It was this really small old town in New Mexico. We saw a hotel called the Plaza Hotel, and thought it looked really cool. It was.

We went inside and took pictures in the hotel. I don't know if we were allowed to...but it was way too cool to pass up! It had a ballroom, a conservatory, all of the old rustic looking artifacts! So cool. :) So, we just walked in and gave ourselves a tour. Taking lots of pictures along the way.

Outside of the hotel, they had a gazebo, so we went to the gazebo and spent a little bit of time there before we headed off going to the next place for our honeymoon.

New Mexico was so much fun and I would gladly go again with my wonderful husband! :)