My sister made the best comment on the phone to me yesterday when she said that she was also exhausted from the wedding - and she also wanted to go on a honeymoon. I couldn't agree more. Having been in many weddings, and helping to pur your heart and soul into the planning and set up and pick up - I could have used a break after all of them too!
So, I can't say enough thank yous to all of the people who "Sold their soul to our wedding"...it was the most amazing out pour of love I have ever experienced. Gratitude and love will never be enough for all that you did. All the time that you spent. And all of the joy we celebrated. :) Thanks. I wish you could have had a honeymoon too...because we loved it!
And, I decided to keep blogging. :) I mean, I may have the last name Berry now, but we are still figuring out what it means to 'Become Berry' together. We also plan to spend the rest of our lives trying to figure it out.
I had a lot of favorite moments on the honeymoon trip to Savannah. We decided to drive down to save money so we left early Monday morning, and returned home last last night (Friday). One of my favorite moments came early at our first rest stop. After a stretch of the legs, AHB returned to the car and said
AHB: "Look what I found." He held my Millikin ID card in his hand.
Me: "Where did you get that? Did you take that from the car? To trick me?"
(I am constantly loosing my ID card. Constantly.)
AHB: "No, a woman came up to me in the rest stop and asked if I knew who it belonged to."
Me: "Liar. That did not happen."
AHB: "Yes it did. She came up to me and asked if I knew who this was. I guess I looked like I was in college or something..."
Me: "And what did you say?" (Still convinced he was making it up.)
AHB: "I said, Well yes ma'am, that is my wife's ID."
My wife. It was the first time I had heard him use the word in reference to me. What a great title.
Well, we would highly reccommend Savannah to anyone. Especially in November when the weather is sunny and 70s. Skip the humidity and heat in the summer! It would just be too oppressive. The city really does look like something from out of this world. So dreamy and old. Very walkable. Full of history and ghost stories! I feel like we stepped out of the car into a different time period because the houses in the historic district re so well kept and lovely. Savannah burnt to the ground 3 times dring its early formation, so you can tell by where you are in the city based on what the houses look like how old they are.
(For instance, after a few fires many houses started to build with fire proof materials - a great idea. So, some look like they are old wooden structures - and are actually made of all iron and painted to look wooden.)
A few photos:
I couldn't get enough of the spanish moss on the trees! But don't touch it, they are full of chiggars! (Very pesky biting bugs!)
The first day in the city we ate lunch at Mrs. Wilke's boarding house. It is only open for lunch 11am-2pm and a line formes out side of the door as early as 8am daily. They serve family style 10 people to a table and you just pay a flat rate for lunch. It. Was. Amazing.
We did many tours. On a trolley. On a horse drawn carriage. And a guided walking tour. We learned a lot - and liked them each. But the walking tour was especially facinating, and really fun. Except for the last 20 minutes when our guide took us into a historic house illegally, and we almost got run out. Ha! It was sooo uncomfortable! But, we learned a lot! :)
A variety of other great moments:
Oh, and did I forget to mention that Fergie's (my 2010 Ford Fusion) transmission died in the Chatanooga Mountains on the way home yesterday???
After a 2 hour detour to Chatanooga, we have a rental car, and are headed back down to TN on Friday to pick her up. :) Extended honeymoon. Haha.
(And thank the Lord she is under warrenty!)
Love, The Berrys
