Our honeymoon, Monday-Tuesday

Ahh the honeymoon. Let me just say this: take a honeymoon. Do it. No don't argue with me, just do it. Mike and I didn't do anything super special - we just rented a cabin and chilled. We made a few excursion-type plans, but almost all of them failed. That wasn't the point though. The point is that we took a week to acknowledge this big thing we just did. The moment, the second we got home, we had to get right back into our routines, but that honeymoon week got to be something different. Before this week we were unmarried, after this week we were married. Marriage honestly feels no different than co-habitating (apparently not a word) in a committed relationship, so that week away together really helped us to feel like we had done something special.

Anyway! Enough with the lecture. Let me tell you about our honeymoon. We left off in our luxurious king-sized bed in our super cheap suite. I forgot to mention that before we went to bed, we filled out a room-service card so breakfast was delivered to our room in the morning. Room service is a treat we don't usually indulge in, but hell, honeymoon right?

After breakfast we stopped at home to grab our honeymoon stuff and switch cars and we were off. Mike and I are good road trip partners so we decided to go somewhere far enough from home to feel "away" but close enough to drive. Sunday night we stopped in a small Pennsylvanian town for the night, and we got to our cabin in Virginia Monday afternoon. I'd tell you about this place, but we loved it so much and we want to go back someday, and we don't want the prices to become outrageous, so we need to keep it a secret. Ok not really, it's the Peach Orchard Hideaway in Luray, VA.

But we really did love it. And we really do want to go back - maybe for an anniversary, or maybe with "the kids" someday. After we checked in (at a cute little store run by the cabin owners), we bought some groceries and settled in. We totally relaxed, made dinner, watched some DVDs, read and hit the hot tub. Oh yes, private hot tub.

Tuesday was the only day when our excursion plans actually worked out. Well, part of them did. We had planned to visit the Luray Caverns, then go on a hot air balloon ride. The balloon ride was postponed due to weather, but the caverns were a success. It's like this huge underground cave with all kinds of amazing geological wonders. Or something. It was pretty cool. And we got headsets!

We ate some really fancy (nope) lunch, and hit the car museum that was part of our caverns admission ticket.

We were also interested in visiting a Civil War museum, so we drove to a little town 20 minutes away to check one out.

And that was our most active day of the whole trip. We had cool plans, but as you'll see, the universe didn't want us to experience such things. It just wanted us to relax a whole lot. So we listened. More on all that later.

 Cross posted at Shan & Mike.

Comments

[Charm City Kim]

I haven't been to Luray Caverns since I was in elementary school and have been meaning to go back.

As for room service - I'm with you, on your honeymoon you deserve to splurge!