honeymoon report

Remember when I got married and how it was awesome? What a fun time. Well, because we got married right before Christmas, and in between semesters, Kevin and I didn't go on a honeymoon. So we saved our pennies and booked a Cruise to Baja Mexico the week before school started! Eight months late, but we got our honeymoon and oh goodness, it was so fun.

 We left from Long Beach, and cruised to Catalina Island, Ensenada and back. On our way home, we camped one night in Zions National Park and had a blast there. We had some serious adventures on this trip, and grew closer together because of it.

I strongly believe that there is something to be said for spending uninterrupted time together as a couple. We had the amazing opportunity to be with each other 24/7 for six full days and it was amazing. We learned more about each other in some fundamental ways, and got to make some incredible memories. I don't think that we will be able to take a trip together every year, but I do believe in consistently making "untouchable" time each day (even if it's just a few minutes) and each week (like a special date night).

There is a myth in the world today that when you find your "soulmate" who's "the one" that you will live happily ever after into a world of rolling credits and unspecified happiness. But it's just not true. True love takes WORK! Isn't that a hard thing to hear sometimes? But it's so worth it to take the time and spend the emotional resources necessary to have a fulfilling marriage (I know I'm not an expert, but I do feel very strongly about this).

On this incredible trip, Kevin and I drove through multiple states and multiple rain storms. We got snippy with each other (okay, I got snippy, but I REALLY needed to pee), we did weird things in weird places (including peeing...). We cruised to Mexico and back. We made some really dumb decisions (like hiking down a water pipe and almost falling off a mountain). But we remembered every second of every day that we made the best decision in marrying each other.

I'm not really sure how this recap of our belated honeymoon turned into a spiel about continuing courtship and keeping the love alive in marriage, but I truly believe that a happy marriage takes work, and it takes time with each other. I treasure the memories made from this vacation. I already miss it, especially when Kevin and I have to spend the majority of the day apart from each other while we are at school, and sometimes our time together isn't as special as we'd like it to be because we're so exhausted. But we try, and we are doing the things that we know we need to do, and because of that, our honeymoon never truly ends.