honeymoon!

My first choice for a honeymoon has been Bali:

I mean, seriously, a private villa, your own cook (who cooks Asian food, no less), gorgeous beaches. How can we not go there?

That is...until I saw this random show on Animal Planet.

I'm not a big animal person. However, I think baby animals are cute (I pretty much love baby anythings) and when I was flipping channels I saw baby tigers!


THEY'RE SO CUTE. And there's a place in Coomera, Queensland, Australia called Tiger Island where they raise tigers to learn about them and help preserve the species. And you're not just looking at them from 1000 feet away- they walk the tigers through the park (on leashes) and have places where you can see them up close.

I'll have to see what the boyf thinks about that, but Australia is a pretty unique honeymoon spot, so it might not take too much convincing. Too bad all of the places I like are in the Pacific Ocean.

oh the planning

This week W and I are going on an East Coast road trip! We've been wanting to do a cross-country road trip together to see all the sites and eat and see friends (going to college in the Midwest left us with friends all over the U.S.!), so this is the next best thing since I can only take so much time off of work. We're definitely milking the fact that he's in school and has long breaks between semesters. I think breaking it into different sections of the U.S. makes it easier than driving for days and days.

We're hitting DC, Philly, and NYC and seeing friends and family at each stop. Since Christmas is approaching I thought it would be cool to exchange food experiences instead of exchanging gifts. His family is going to be out of town for Christmas, so we wouldn't be exchanging gifts on the actual day anyway...might as well be creative, right? I'm treating him to a fancy lunch in Philly and he's treating me to lunch in NYC. It also ensures that we have time to enjoy our surroundings by ourselves in the midst of all the traveling.

The funny thing about planning this trip is that I realized that planning something for the two of us isn't as fun when I'm the only one planning. W has been really busy with school these past two weeks so I've taken it upon myself to contact our friends for places to stay, finding times to meet up, etc. I don't mind planning things (okay, I LIVE for planning) but it's much more fun to have input from someone else and plan things together so you know you're on the same page. Plus, it gives us both ownership over the event, and hopefully that means we'll enjoy it more as a result. I hope I remember that when we start planning our wedding.

On a side note, two interesting things happened today:
1) My sister told me that she already bought our engagement present (does she know something I don't??)
and 2) W asked me a question our friends had to answer in pre-marital counseling: Why do you want to get married? I'll give our answers later...my computer is running too slow right now. I got a little nervous because I thought he was going to pop the question! Now that my sister's almost back from studying abroad I think I'm gonna be suspicious of everything. *sigh* I'm killing my own romantic notions, I know. =P