After our wedding ended Derek and I left to go home and change before heading to the airport.
Yes, we did have a flight right after our wedding, and yes it was a terrible idea....BUT it was the only flight we could get on! The first plane left PDX and flew to Seattle, this flight was not to bad besides the fact that we were tired! Our second flight we flew from Seattle to Miami....it was also a Red Eye.....and we had a crying baby in front of us all night....not a fun flight! Derek and I just kept telling ourselves that we will be in paradise soon! Our third flight we flew from Miami to St. Maartin which was a pretty short flight. We were so tired by the time we landed because we had been up for abour 32 hours straight.
St. Maartens!
Once we got to the airport in St. Maartin I had a hard time breathing...the humidity was crazy! From there we went to baggage claim, after what seemed like an eternity we finally received our luggage. We then continued to follow the signs to see where our shuttle was to the car rental place, the guy who was driving the shuttle was very nice and helpful. We asked him the do's and don'ts on the island, and what are some fun things we should do while we are here! He told us that the island is known for the night life..which Derek and I do not party so we ruled that out of our to do list. On our way to the car rental there were some locals on streetbikes weaving in and out of traffic, cutting people, off and even riding in the other lane where there is oncoming traffic. I was completly shocked, but our shuttle driver said it is very common for locals to do that and we should make sure to watch out for them. We finally got to the car rental place and got our bags into our convertible mustang, and it started raining! It was only a drizzle and didn't last long, but it was very unexpected.
Derek and I were so excited to get to our resort, so we got our GPS hooked up and started heading to the resort. Our drive there was a lot of fun because the view was gorgeous, and we got to see so much of the island. Once we got to the resort we checked in and unloaded all our bags, our room faced the ocean and it was beautiful! Our resort had its own private beach, a pool, and a couple restaurants, so we went and toured the resort before going down and lounging at the beach.
View from our room!
The whole week we were in St. Maartens is such a blur now. We were told that each beach in St. Maartens had different sand, so we spent a couple days traveling the island and hopping from beach to beach to find out what one we liked the best. We even collected three different sands with ocean water and took it home with us to put in our house. We spent a day going to a little island that my friends mom told us about, I believe it was called Pinel Island. It was such a fun little island that we explored and lounged out in the water. The rest of our remaining time we spent out on our favorite beach which was Maho Beach. This is the beach that the airplanes comes so low to the ground it feels like you can touch them! It was so cool seeing the airplanes come and go. The water was also the calmest compared to any other beach, and we just swam out as far as we could touch and just lounged in the water. I wish we could have spent all our time there, it was such a nice beach and I miss it like crazy!!
We were so lucky to spend our Honeymoon somewhere so exotic and beautiful, we still can't believe that we even went there. We loved the friendly locals, and amazingly clear and peaceful ocean, we hope to be lucky enough to travel to some exotic place like St. Maartens again! Untill then I will keep looking at our pictures and pretend like I am still laying out on the beach!
Here are some pictures of the different beaches we traveled to, and some of the restaurants we went too.
Maho Beach...
Derek's Artsy-ness
Pinel Island
The sand here was so rough!
Just a small plane landing...
