The next day we decide to try to relax and recover from the wedding. Later that afternoon we went to Cyprus Gardens, Florida's first amusement park. It was about Lagoon quality rides, I remembered it being much more fun as a kid! They have some roller coasters, water skiing show, a southern plantation and gardens, and a water park. One of my favorite things as a little girl were the "Southern Belles" around the park dressed up.
Our Third day we went to Disney World!!! The first stop was to get Just Married buttons and the hat shop to buy the bride and groom Mickey ears. After a little protest Max put on his button (he thought is was lame). But Max refused to wear the ears, we had a little argument. So our day started off not so great, but once Max stopped being stubborn we had fun!!! We started off in Tomorrow Land after going to the Buzz Lightyear, Laugh Floor, and the Stitch rides we got in line for The Transportation of Tomorrow ride. The guy at the beginning of the ride stopped Max and I because we were wear the Just Married buttons and asked use where we were from, how long we had been married, gave us some words of advise and two fast passes to be used on any ride it was pretty sweet. Every where we went the workers told us "congratulations", I liked all the attention. A few hours later we made our way to It's a Small World, a women pulled Max and I a side and asked us where we were from, it turned out she lived in Layton for a while and her kids went to Northridge. Then she asked us if we want to be honorary cruise directors or something like that. So they made a slightly embarrassing announcement for everyone in line to hear and we got to stand in the tower and wave to everyone as their boat left. It was pretty fun, again I don't mind getting attention. Then when we were done sending off the boat the women gave us four more fast passes, which made all that worth it to Max. The rest of the day went well, we had fun. Max smoozed a worker into giving us free ice cream. Max's favorite ride was space mountain, I have too many to say a favorite!!!
The fourth day was slept in, had breakfast/lunch at the Waffle House. I had Max try grits but he didn't like them which meant more for me! Then we went to Gatorland!!! It was fun to see the gators all over the place. A large section of the park was closed off so that was stinky, we watched a show. Max got to hold a gator and I had a boa constrictor around my neck. unfortunately I don't have that picture. We didn't spend too much time at Gatorland because we were still pooped from the lack of sleep from the few nights prior so we went back to the hotel and I took a three hour nap!!! I don't think I've ever napped that long. Then we went to the pool area and swam for a while. For dinner we went out for sushi it was really good, they messed up on our order so they gave us some extra rolls we were STUFFED!!!!
The fifth day we drove to Plant City to get some beach stuff from my Paw Paw and Granny, when we got there they took us out to lunch at a sea food restaurant right next to Tampa Bay. For an appetizer we got fried gator, it was pretty darn good. It tasted like chew chicken. After we went to the Fort De Soda Beach on the Gulf of Mexico. It was a disaster, it had rained all day it stopped when we got there.
I was so excited to take Max to the beach for the first time, but because of the stationary front over Florida there was an unusual rip tide which brought in a bunch of crap from the ocean floor. As soon as we set down our stuff Max grabbed the boggie board and walked into the ocean. He got freaked out by these round squishy prune shaped ocean creatures that covered the ocean floor. We swam for about an hours but another storm blew in. As we were running back to the car because it started raining on us my favorite flip flops I had since 12th grade broke while I was chasing after Max's hat that blew off his head. It was a big ordeal.
The sixth day we got up early to go to the Orlando Temple, we got there late to do a session but we were able to do some sealings. The sealer could seal in six different languages, a couple we did work for were from Italy so he did the sealing in Italian. that was really neat. After we drove back to Plant City to stay the night there. My Paw Paw and Granny took us on a tour of the cubian city, Ybor City. Supposedy the cubian mafia used to run the city. After we went back for some of Granny's southern home cooking!!!
The seventh day we woke up early to go caneoing down the Hillsborgough River!!! Oh did I mention it was infested with ALLIGATORS!!! Unfortuantely we went so early in the morning that it was too cold for the gators to come out of the water, so we only saw 5 gators. My dad and I had done that trip before and saw over 30 gators. After the caneo trip we had breakfast at IHOP and then it was off to the airport. Our honeymoon was definately one we won't forget!Now a word from Max: It was really great exept for the rain....
