Honeymoon

Bryce and I finally went on our official honeymoon!!! Since we got married two weeks before school finished we decided to wait and do a honeymoon after we finished finals. Then during the month of May, Bryce went to the school everyday from 9-5 to work on his medical school applications. With school over, and the application process finished we decided it was about time to go on our honeymoon. Bryce planned the entire honeymoon and tried to keep it a secret... I found out a few weeks before we left that we were going to Florida, where Bryce served his mission. We had a blast!!!

We took a camera but as you'll see we forgot to take some important pictures, i.e the hotel we stayed in or some of the parks we visited, so I had to find some pictures on the internet, but it works :)

The Inn at the Oak Plantation in Kissimmee, Florida

We left Cedar City around 6:00 p.m, Monday June 14th and had a 10:00 p.m. flight from Las Vegas to Orlando. This was the first time I've ever done a red eye flight and I hope it is the last. Bryce and I decided an airplane is not a good place to try and sleep, especially when the guy behind you keeps putting his knees in your back. After collecting our luggage, getting our rental car, and finding the hotel we were staying at it was 6:00 a.m. (Florida time) and we were exhausted. We checked in and slept for awhile.

We decided that Tuesday would be our relaxing day and we would just spend the day swimming at the resort, playing in the arcade room, and seeing the city.

Wednesday we woke up early and headed to Islands of Adventure at Universal Studios.

Us, with Bryce's favorite ride, Doctor Doom's Fall, behind us

After riding the Hulk and Doctor Doom's Fall, we went to Toon Lagoon to ride the rides were you would get "wet, possibly soaked!" They didn't need to say possibly they should have said we guarantee you'll be SOAKED!!!
The last picture of us DRY!!!

We were brave and stood in the SOAK ZONE to take a picture. Lucky, we took the picture and left before getting soaked!
Two days after we visited Islands of Adventure, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened. We weren't allowed to get in early unless we paid $300 for a ticket, but we did get some pretty good pictures of the outside!

If you look closely I was obviously not impressed, my eyes are closed.

Poseidon's Fury

My knight in shining armor!

While the rides shut down because of inclement weather we decided to explore Seuss Landing

After looking around the rides were still down so we decided to check out the Arcade.

Score of our Air Hockey game. I won!!!

Bryce decided to get even and beat me in a basketball shooting contest 47-44

You can't really tell in the picture, but we tied at Ice Ball 18,000 to 18,000

Finally we decided we needed to work together instead of competing against each other. We decided to play Deal or No Deal. At first they show you all the cases with the number of tickets in each. Then they close the cases and you are supposed to follow the cases around while they shuffle them like crazy. I was so lost, but Bryce narrowed it down to cases 1,2,3 or 4. Since 2 is my favorite number we picked that one and ended up winning the grand prize of 500 tickets!!!

After redeeming our tickets we realized 500 tickets didn't get us and much as we thought it would, but we had a blast winning them.

Thursday we went to Adventure Island. Since it's a water park I didn't bring my camera, but I found a picture of the map on the internet.

The purple ride in the corner was our favorite!!! It's a huge yellow raft and you can't help but get soaked! So much fun!!!

We did bring the camera on Friday to Busch Gardens, but we were so excited and intent on riding all the roller coasters that we forgot to take pictures. There were hardly any people at the park, so we were able to ride everything multiple times and didn't have to wait in any line longer than about 30 minutes!!!

I had to post one of our favorite rides... Sheikra!!! We thought the line for this would be long for sure, but we were able to ride this 4 times in a row, just walking right on.
We decided the line for this ride must have been so short because people must have been too scared to ride it. On this ride you climb to the very top, start to fall over the edge, and then the ride stops for a minute and you are looking straight down at the ground. You are then released to fall straight down.

On Saturday we were able to go to the Orlando temple with a couple Bryce worked with on his mission, Eddie and Donna. They are the sweetest people ever and we had such a fun time being with them in the temple and then going out to dinner afterward.

After dinner Bryce and I decided to go miniature golfing. We are the worst miniature golfers ever, let alone in a downpour... we were soaked, but had a lot of fun.

First time I've ever seen alligators, besides in a zoo.

Waiting out the rainstorm in a boat on the course

This may be one reason why we aren't very good golfers, we just don't have the stance down yet...

Getting better at our golfer's stance

Bryce couldn't quite figure out all the Florida signs and we crashed into the Congo River... :)

The scribbling we did on the tablecloth at dinner.... Luckily the waitress did it first so they didn't kick us out. It was really entertaining though.